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, a platform has the 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.
- ANSPs: A platform enables streamlined data exchange for predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, and operational optimization and the integration of advanced remote tower, digital apron, turnaround, and air traffic management software.
- Airports and Airlines: A platform optimizes operations by integrating real-time data from air traffic control, ground vehicles, and sensors, enhancing situational awareness and minimizing delays.
It improves resource allocation by optimizing gate assignments, managing passenger flow, and streamlining turnaround times.
Additionally, it enables predictive maintenance for critical infrastructure, ensuring smoother operations and reducing disruptions.
A platform enables digital transformation in aviation, unifying data and systems to support smarter, more connected operations
How A Platform Enables Digital Transformation
Whether you’re an ANSP or working in airport operations, it can be challenging to know where to start with digital transformation.
You need to make decisions about technology, vendors, partners, and where you want to be in 1, 3, 5, and 10 years.
We get it. This is a big ask. Particularly when you’re dealing with these common challenges to digital transformation:
- Resistance to change
- Legacy system integration
- Cybersecurity risks and data management
- System complexity due to siloed systems
- Fragmented stakeholder communication and collaboration
- Regulatory compliance
The hard truth about digital transformation is this–you haven’t done it before and it’s difficult to clearly understand the best path forward.
You need to think about what is at the core of every decision, operation, and outcome—data.
Data is central to digital transformation.
You need a solution that empowers smarter, more efficient, and confident decision-making, lowers TCO, and allows you to always be innovating
8 Core Advantages of an Open Platform
There are three primary platform options available to you: middleware-only, proprietary vendor-specific, and open.
The decision you make about your platform has deep-reaching implications for your long-term success in this technology-driven industry.
Whether you work in an airport or for an ANSP or airline, you need to understand these 8 advantages of an open platform:
- Drives Digital Transformation: Speeds up the adoption of modern technologies, helping aviation operations run smarter, faster, and more efficiently.
- Secure Data Collaboration: Allows safe and reliable data sharing between key stakeholders, ensuring real-time visibility and communications.
- Enhanced System Safety: Sharing services across multiple stakeholders increases operational reliability, ensuring safer, more consistent performance.
- Vendor Flexibility: A modular and open design allows you to integrate and replace services from different providers, reducing dependency on a single vendor.
- Quicker, Cost-Effective Upgrades: System updates and changes happen faster and at a lower cost, minimizing disruptions to airport operations.
- Simplified Maintenance: Cleaner, more straightforward system design makes it easier to troubleshoot and maintain, enhancing overall reliability.
- Maximum Uptime: A highly available design ensures continuous operation, going beyond basic backup systems to keep essential services running smoothly.
- Future-Ready Expansion: Expanding or upgrading systems is seamless, enabling airports to scale as traffic grows or new technologies emerge.
EVERYTHING STARTS WITH A PLATFORM
- Read Evaluating Your Platform Options
- 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