Aviation data analytics is the new frontier for aviation, and the competition is getting hot in the race to lead the industry. Some have set their sights on industry-wide domination, while others are more focused on niche areas of the industry. So who are the leading aviation data platforms and who are the up-and-comers?

In recent years, the market for data analysis and predictive analytics within the aviation industry has significantly matured, meaning that many of the promises made by fledgeling data platforms just a few years ago, now have vast data pools from which to make do on those promises.

But what does this mean for the industry? Simply put, it's a buyers market. Pricing, performance and features are becoming more competitive, providing you with quite a lot of options in data analytics solutions tailored to the aviation industry and MRO.

In this article, we look at five aviation data analytics platforms that are pushing for market dominance or looking to reshape areas of the industry that are lagging in digitisation.

Skywise aviation data platform

We would be remiss if we did not begin this list with the platform associated with many of our own business offers. In partnership with one of the major pioneers in big-data integration Palantir Technologies, our very own parent company Airbus launched the aviation data analytics platform, Skywise, in 2017.

From the get-go, this aviation data platform aimed to become the "single platform of reference used by all major aviation players to improve their operational performance and business results and to support their own digital transformation."

Since its inception, Skywise has become widely adopted throughout the industry—providing all users with one single access point to their enriched data by bringing together aviation data from multiple sources across the industry into one secure cloud-based platform.

The platform is built to collect, aggregate, and share airline data from work orders, spares consumption, component data, fleet configuration, sensor data and flight schedules. Additional data sources traditionally shared with Airbus and hosted only on isolated servers—such as aircraft condition monitoring reports, parts replacements, on-board aircraft data and technical documentation—can be integrated into the platform and combine with the full scope of platform data to allow operators a broader range of analysis and decision-making.

The platform is used by over 100+ airlines all across the globe, contributing to a vast and industry-wide data pool from which airlines and operators can utilise in the operations.

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