總部位于俄亥俄州埃文代爾市的通用電氣航空和總部位于俄亥俄州代頓市的Teradata天睿公司正在擴大合作范圍，研發(fā)一個針對航空公司的分析技術(shù)框架。該框架將把Teradata公司的高性能云端分析軟件和通用電氣航空的邊緣連接服務(wù)進行有效融合。據(jù)市場調(diào)研公司 Markets and Markets Research 估計，到2021年前，航空分析技術(shù)市場的產(chǎn)值將從目前的21.6億美元增至42.3億美元。
在英國范堡羅航展上，通用電氣航空宣布，將成為Teradata的商業(yè)航空產(chǎn)品服務(wù)的獨家供應(yīng)商。通用電氣航空高管表示，他們的目標是“向航空公司提供全面的運營信息，助其做出重要的業(yè)務(wù)決策。”
通用電氣航空首席數(shù)字官 John Mansfield表示，“Teradata強大的分析解決方案可以支持混合云環(huán)境，與之結(jié)合以后，我們就能為航空公司客戶創(chuàng)造最佳分析環(huán)境。通過這次合作，我們將為航空公司建立一個全面的企業(yè)數(shù)據(jù)和業(yè)務(wù)解決方案框架。”
通用電氣航空的高管還以公司的FlightPulse應(yīng)用程序為例做了進一步說明。據(jù)介紹，F(xiàn)lighPulse將連入Teradata的軟件系統(tǒng)，提供覆蓋企業(yè)各個部門的高性能分析服務(wù)。FlighPulse將自動結(jié)合復(fù)雜的飛行器數(shù)據(jù)和機組值班表，以可視化的形式向客機飛行員呈現(xiàn)個人分析數(shù)據(jù)。他們可以借助這些數(shù)據(jù)開展自我分析，或與同行進行比較，尋找在操作和效率方面有待改善的地方，同時降低風(fēng)險、油耗和碳排放。通用電氣航空的高管表示，把這些操作數(shù)據(jù)和Teradata系統(tǒng)中的乘客數(shù)據(jù)相結(jié)合，航空公司對企業(yè)數(shù)據(jù)就有了總體認知，并可以進而把數(shù)據(jù)轉(zhuǎn)化為有意義的商業(yè)成果。
Teradata首席市場官Martyn Etherington解釋道，“在企業(yè)運營環(huán)境中，把分析結(jié)果轉(zhuǎn)化具有影響力的可信商業(yè)成果，是最難的一件事情。為了做到這一點，首先要確保連通數(shù)據(jù)孤島，使它們彼此間能順暢交流。我們和通用電氣航空的合作，就是為了幫助航空業(yè)實現(xiàn)數(shù)據(jù)連通的自動化。接下來就是要確保大型跨國企業(yè)客戶能快速接入像‘Teradata分析平臺’這樣強大而又靈活的分析解決方案。”
由Teradata研發(fā)的“Teradata分析平臺”，分析功能和分析引擎適用于多種數(shù)據(jù)類型，允許用戶對操作工具和系統(tǒng)語言進行個性化設(shè)置，可為客戶提供云端部署、本地部署或混合部署的安全、可擴展、高性能的分析服務(wù)。
通用電氣航空的高管表示，對于已經(jīng)在運營管理、資產(chǎn)管理、網(wǎng)絡(luò)管理中使用通用電氣航空的產(chǎn)品的客戶而言，添加“Teradata分析平臺”將為其帶來全面的企業(yè)洞察，實現(xiàn)更高收益，比如可以幫助客戶改善飛行操作、預(yù)測維護需求、提高運營效率，并提升顧客滿意度。
雙方高管此前曾表示，兩家公司計劃為某些商用航空市場共同提供營銷、售后支持等產(chǎn)品和服務(wù)。通用電氣航空的業(yè)務(wù)、資產(chǎn)、網(wǎng)絡(luò)與Teradata的客戶信息、營銷、后臺支持等優(yōu)勢的強強聯(lián)合，可有效降低整個系統(tǒng)部署、擴展、應(yīng)用的難度。例如，當出現(xiàn)航班延誤或取消等干擾事件時，通用電氣航空就可以根據(jù)Teradata的顧客體驗管理系統(tǒng)進行主動響應(yīng)。再通過添加零部件庫存、物流、工作計劃、人員儲備等信息，干擾事件的管理流程就變得更加完善了。除此之外，通用電氣航空和Teradata的聯(lián)合解決方案還能為業(yè)務(wù)帶來很多其它裨益，例如，它能改善飛行操作、預(yù)測維護需求、提高運營效率，并提升顧客滿意度。
通用電氣航空數(shù)字解決方案業(yè)務(wù)首席商業(yè)官Andrew Coleman表示，“顯然，Teradata擅長為國際性航空公司提供所需的海量數(shù)據(jù)和分析技術(shù)。我們善于進行資產(chǎn)管理和運營優(yōu)化，Teradata的優(yōu)勢則在于利用大量數(shù)據(jù)和多類型分析技術(shù)為客戶提供洞見。我們兩家企業(yè)的強強聯(lián)手，將為航空行業(yè)帶來全新的綜合分析解決方案。”
此次合作中，“通用電氣航空數(shù)字解決方案”部門還引入了由通用電氣工業(yè)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)平臺Predix支持的專業(yè)應(yīng)用程序。Predix是一個邊到云的開發(fā)平臺，連接了發(fā)動機、飛行器和操作數(shù)據(jù)，能夠持續(xù)不斷地分析數(shù)據(jù)流，實時生成可執(zhí)行的分析結(jié)果。這樣的能力正是契合了當今全球航空業(yè)的需求。現(xiàn)在的航空業(yè)一年要處理的數(shù)據(jù)規(guī)模已達到了幾個艾字節(jié)，而且數(shù)據(jù)量還在年年遞增。通用電氣航空和Teradata的技術(shù)都適用于混合云環(huán)境，支持就地部署和大型公有云部署。
通用電氣航空公司是通用電氣（紐交所代碼：GE）的子公司，致力于通過網(wǎng)聯(lián)化、響應(yīng)快、前瞻性的軟件定義機器和解決方案，推動行業(yè)變革。通用電氣公司擁有強大的人才隊伍、卓越的服務(wù)支持、頂尖的技術(shù)實力、領(lǐng)先的企業(yè)規(guī)模，旨在精準洞察行業(yè)需求，幫助客戶取得最佳業(yè)績。
Teradata致力于通過提供基于云端的業(yè)務(wù)分析解決方案、架構(gòu)咨詢服務(wù)、大數(shù)據(jù)和分析技術(shù)，幫助企業(yè)實現(xiàn)具有影響力的業(yè)務(wù)成果。
Officials at GE Aviation in Evandale, Ohio, and Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in Dayton, Ohio, are expanding their partnership to provide airlines with a framework that combines Teradata’s high-performance analytics in the cloud with GE Aviation’s edge-connectivity services. Markets and Markets Research estimates the aviation analytics market is a $2.16 billion industry that will grow to an estimated $4.23 billion by 2021.
GE Aviation will become the exclusive provider of Teradata products and services for commercial aviation markets, company officials announced during Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. The goal is to “provide airlines with wide-ranging operational insights that power impactful business decisions,” officials say.
"We can provide the best analytic environment for airline customers by adding Teradata's powerful analytic solutions with built-in support for hybrid cloud environments," says John Mansfield, chief digital officer of GE Aviation. "This partnership enables us to bring a holistic framework of enterprise data and business solutions to airlines."
GE Aviation's FlightPulse application will include a connection to Teradata software to enable access to high-performance analytics enterprise-wide, officials say, citing one example. FlightPulse automatically merges complex aircraft data with crew schedules, enabling commercial pilots to visualize personal analytics and conduct their own exploration. Empowered to conduct their own analysis and peer comparisons, pilots discover areas to optimize operations and efficiency, while reducing risk, fuel consumption, and carbon emissions. By combining this operational data with passenger-based data within the Teradata system, an airline can create a holistic enterprise view of its data and extract meaningful business outcomes, officials say.
"Operationalizing the analytics that provide high-impact, trusted business outcomes is one of the hardest things to pull off in an enterprise-scale environment," explains Martyn Etherington, chief marketing officer at Teradata. "The first step is often making sure various data silos can communicate, and our partnership with GE Aviation is designed to make this happen almost automatically for the airline industry. Ensuring that these large, global customers have quick access to a powerful, yet flexible, analytics solution like the Teradata Analytics Platform is the second step."
The Teradata Analytics Platform from Teradata delivers analytic functions and engines, that can be used with multiple data types. Coupled with the tools and languages that each user individually prefers to use, the Teradata Analytics Platform delivers secure, scalable, high-performance analytics in the cloud, on-premises, or both.
For airline customers already using GE Aviation for operations, assets, and network management, adding the Teradata Analytics Platform would deliver enterprise-wide insights with results ranging from improved flight operations and predictive maintenance to increased operational efficiencies and higher customer satisfaction, officials say.
Company officials previously announced their intention to jointly provide products and services, including joint marketing, sales, services, and support across both companies, to specified commercial aviation markets. By combining operations, assets, and networks from GE Aviation with Teradata’s customer information, sales and marketing, and back-office support, it makes the entire ecosystem easier to deploy, scale, and use, officials say. For example, flight disruptions can be actively managed by GE with customer experience being managed by Teradata. With the combined solutions, the process to manage disruptions is more complete by adding information about managing parts inventories, logistics, scheduling, and labor pools. Other powerful business outcomes resulting from the combined solutions range from improving flight operations and predictive maintenance to increased operational efficiencies and higher customer satisfaction, they say.
“For data and analytics, it became clear that Teradata excels at the size and scale required by a global airline,” says Andrew Coleman, chief commercial officer for GE Aviation’s Digital Solutions business. “By integrating our expertise in asset performance management and operations optimization, with Teradata’s ability to drive customer insights using massive amounts of data and multi-genre analytics, the aviation market will gain an analytic solution that delivers comprehensive insights.”
GE Aviation’s Digital Solutions business brings industrial apps powered by Predix, GE’s platform for the Industrial Internet, to the partnership. This edge-to-cloud development platform connects engines, aircraft, and operations before analyzing a continuous data stream to deliver real-time actionable intelligence. Such capabilities are required in the global airline industry, which is dealing with a growing volume of data that could reach many exabytes in a single year. Both technologies are primed for working in a hybrid cloud environment with built-in support for on premises as well as major public cloud vendors.
GE Aviation is part of GE (NYSE:GE), transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive, and predictive. With people, services, technology, and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.
Teradata helps companies achieve high-impact business outcomes with a portfolio of cloud-based business analytics solutions, architecture consulting, and big data and analytics technology.
Author: Courtney Howard
Source: SAE Aerospace Engineering Magazine
