Boeing and Microsoft to build cloud-based solution for commercial aviation analytics tools

Boeing and Microsoft announced (18-Jul-2016) an agreement to build a cloud-based platform for Boeing's portfolio of commercial aviation analytics tools. The two companies intend to work together to transition many of Boeing's commercial aviation applications into the Microsoft Azure cloud. Boeing - and its subsidiaries AerData and Jeppesen - offer analytics tools currently used by more than 300 airlines. [more - original PR]