A platform is the digital foundation connecting systems, data, and stakeholders, enabling seamless collaboration and smarter decision-making.
A platform enables you to build an agile, flexible, and future-proofed technical solution that adapts seamlessly with your evolving needs and goals, ensuring quick and cost-effective scalability.
Across the aviation industry, the platform has a critical role in enabling digital transformation by breaking down operational and data silos and fostering collaboration between ANSPs, airports, and airlines.
By leveraging AI, machine learning, and data analytics, the platform drives digital transformation for all aviation stakeholders.
Choosing an aviation platform is not straightforward, particularly when the term platform is not used consistently.
Our goal is ensuring that you make the right platform decision for your immediate and long-term goals.
Use this page to help you evaluate aviation platform options and vendors.
EVERYTHING STARTS WITH A PLATFORM
Questions To Ask When Choosing Your Platform
When researching your platform options, make sure you ask these six questions:
- How will the platform reduce complexity and enable us to future-proof airside architecture to improve operational efficiency and safety of our ANSP or airport operations?
- Does the platform offer seamless integration with existing systems, including legacy infrastructure and future technologies like AI, IoT, and big data?
- How does the platform enhance collaboration and data sharing among various stakeholders to support A-CDM functionality?
- How does the platform address cybersecurity concerns and ensure compliance with aviation industry regulations and standards?
- Can the platform scale to accommodate multi-terminal or multi-airport operations as our organization grows?
- Will we be happy with this platform choice in 1, 3, 5, and 10 years?
Your Platform Needs These 6 Key Features
A platform is the digital foundation connecting systems, data, and stakeholders, enabling seamless collaboration and smarter decision-making.
Make sure your open platform has these six key features:
Scalability and Future-Readiness
Ensure the platform can scale your operations and adapt to future demands such as new airspace users, autonomous ground vehicles, and sustainability initiatives.
Can The Platform?
Manage a small number of UAM flights in designated corridors, then as demand increases, scale to handle higher traffic volumes, integrate with traditional air traffic control systems, and eventually support fully autonomous UAM operations?
Openness and Integration Capabilities
Look for open APIs and an open-source, scalable design that supports integration with third-party solutions, prevents vendor lock-in, and enables secure data sharing across all stakeholders.
Can The Platform?
Enable seamless integration of the airport’s existing systems, including flight information display systems, baggage handling, and gate management, and external systems from airlines, ground handlers, and air traffic controllers?
AI and Machine Learning
Look for a platform designed to support AI-driven tools, ensuring you get proactive responses and intelligence for predictive maintenance, operational optimization, anomaly detection, passenger needs and personalization, and demand forecasting.
Can The Platform?
Leverage technology to provide real-time recommendations to controllers by analyzing historical, live, and scheduled data for optimal resource allocation?
Cybersecurity and Data Protection
Ensure the platform is designed with cybersecurity and data protection at its core and does not rely on external third-party interfaces. Be confident there are zero risks to your data integrity or confidentiality once it’s in the platform.
Can The Platform?
Deliver on a security-first approach, ensuring all data is secured within a closed system, that allows for real-time data sharing with stakeholders while maintaining zero risk to your data integrity and confidentiality?
Modular Architecture
The platform must support efficient resource management, system resilience, simplified updates and rollbacks, scalability, and flexible deployment options. It’s time to move away from costly, resource-intensive monolithic legacy systems.
Can The Platform?
Enable the easy deployment of a new flight scheduling service without disrupting existing operations, allowing for seamless upgrades and rollbacks?
For example, when a weather tracking module is updated, the rest of the system remains fully operational, ensuring continuous service while enhancing real-time weather monitoring capabilities.
On-Premise, Cloud, and Hybrid Deployment
Look for a platform that supports multiple deployment models, offering the flexibility to choose the best infrastructure for your current and future needs. Choose a platform that offers cloud, on-premise, and hybrid deployment models.
Can The Platform?
Enable you to deploy your flight management system on-premise while using cloud-based services for real-time passenger notifications?
We want you to choose a partner who has a proven track record, a commitment to technological growth, and a collaborative approach to solving your challenges.
Do not hesitate to ask for references and success stories.
Comparing Your Aviation Platform Options
We understand that choosing a platform is not straightforward, particularly when the term platform is not used consistently.
This table gives you an easy way to quickly compare feature availability across the three primary platform types: Middleware-Only Platform, Proprietary Vendor-Specific Platform, and Open Platform.
| Capabilities | Middleware-Only | Proprietary Vendor-Specific | Open Platform (e.g. Chorus by Searidge) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unified data management | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Unified application deployment, configuration and health monitoring | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Centralized cybersecurity | ✔ | ✔ | |
| ATC-grade assurance level (compliance with ED-109 and ED-153) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Modern cloud-native technology stack | ✔ | ||
| Open to onboard 3rd-party applications | ✔ | ||
| Open APIs and message queue interfaces | ✔ | ||
| Industry-leading AI | ✔ | ||
| Out-of-the-box data integrations for ANSP, Airport and Airline systems | ✔ |
Making The Right Platform Choice For Your Needs
We recommend you prioritize a flexible, open scalable platform that:
- Eliminates data and organizational silos
- Delivers the highest levels of ATC-grade safety and reliability standards
- Is designed to grow with your needs
We want you to be confident you’re investing in the right technology and partner for your immediate and long-term needs.
We encourage you to take your time, ask questions, and do your due diligence.
Choose a partner with the people, processes, technology, expertise, and commitment to support both your strategic and immediate goals.
This is a significant investment with long-term implications.
- Read What Is The Platform?
- Learn about Chorus, our open platform
- Dig deep with Aviation’s Digital Transformation: How A Platform Enables Digital Transformation
- Have Questions? Ready to talk? Contact us to talk about your platform options and the features you need