Boeing to push aviation analytics to Azure

Boeing will transition "many" of its commercial aviation analytics software products to run in Microsoft's Azure cloud. The two companies today said they had struck an agreement to help airlines "accelerate innovation in areas such as predictive maintenance and flight optimisation". Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. "[We're] teaming up to accelerate the digital transformation of aviation through the use of analytics-based applications, cloud technologies and large-scale integration," Boeing digital aviation vice president Kevin Crowley said. Microsoft said the collaboration would see artificial intelligence and IoT play greater roles in the aviation space.