AlcateL-Lucent Rainbow™ Premium has been launched this month, providing a sovereign AI layer for the Rainbow platform that is hosted and governed entirely in Europe.
Built for public-sector and mission-critical organisations, Rainbow Premium works within customers’ existing Rainbow setup, leaving devices, applications and user experience unchanged. The new Rainbow AI upgrade will enable meeting summaries with the customer’s own custom prompt. In addition, live translation, voice and meetings transcription, and document translation are also included in the new Premium license.
European organisations want to use AI while keeping their data secure and meeting EU regulations, and often need to avoid unapproved AI tools that could store sensitive business information in unknown locations. Rainbow Premium runs AI features in European data centres, keeping business data and meeting content within Europe. This helps organisations maintain control over their data, protect sensitive information and meet regulatory requirements.
Moussa Zaghdoud, Group Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice-President of Infrastructure, Platforms & Services, comments:
“Employees are increasingly adopting AI tools faster than their organizations can approve them, potentially exposing sensitive business data to security, sovereignty, and compliance risks. This is a serious and growing concern for businesses.”
The launch comes as the European public sector, specifically the healthcare and defence organisations, accelerate efforts to remove dependency on US cloud frameworks such as the US Cloud Act. Organisations are increasingly seeking trusted European cloud solutions that give them greater control over their data and reduce dependence on foreign technology providers.
According to a recent Gartner report, Europeans’ spending on sovereign cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is projected to grow 83% year-over-year.
Rainbow Premium runs inside the environment teams already use, existing devices and applications operate exactly as before, now with AI available. There is no migration and no change to workflows, and users keep the same experience.
Rainbow is ISO 27001 certified and holds the required national security certifications in its key European markets: HDS and ANSSI CSPN in France, BSI C5 in Germany, ENS in Spain, and ACN in Italy. The platform meets the requirements of GDPR, as well as HIPAA and FERPA.
The first release of Rainbow Premium brings, in a single click, the following features available in 6 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese):
• Meeting transcription and summary – clear record of what was said, what was decided, and what needs follow-up, easy to share with those who could not attend, so participants can focus on the discussion instead of notetaking.
• Live captioning and translation – supports workplace accessibility. This feature delivers sub-titles across five languages simultaneously ensuring all team members including those with hearing loss or multilingual backgrounds can participate in critical discussions.
• Voice transcription – a written view of voicemail and telephony messages for faster, more consistent responses.
• Document translation – translated files appear in the Rainbow “Files” space within seconds.
• Custom prompts – Administrators can tailor AI outputs to their own context, improving the relevance of the output for their daily work.
