Join Cirium Agreed By Snowflake Software in a Deal Focused on Delivering a Complete, Real-time View of World Flight Operations

Snowflake Software Ltd (Snowflake), an innovator in fusing and streaming live flight and navigational data, has signed an agreement to become part of Cirium, the expanding aviation analytics group. Cirium, which is part of RELX, expects the acquisition to provide the mixed group a world-class capability in dealing with live flight information for the international air transport industry.

Based in Southampton, UK, Snowflake has accelerated the integration and exchange of flight, weather and aeronautical data via its cloud-based Laminar Data platform. This will now be brought together with Ciriums flight status, schedule, fleet and traffic analytics.

As demand for air travel increases, seamless data exchange to enable collaborative decision making is essential to the future growth of the air transport industry. Snowflake with its award-winning Laminar Data platform is well-placed to leverage this unprecedented demand for data exchange throughout many airspace users which includes Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), Airlines, Airport and Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) providers.

One such international initiative pivotal to the success of the International Civil Aviation Organizations (ICAO) Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP), is System Wide Information Management (SWIM). Snowflake is identified as a key innovator in SWIM having these days operationally deployed the SWIM Gateway for the UAEs General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), the first such installation outside of Europe and the USA, providing end-to-end flight data management in the region.

In addition to leading ANSPs such as the GCAA and UK NATS (previously known as National Air Traffic Services), Snowflakes Laminar Data platform underpins numerous high-profile data exchange initiatives with organizations such as Rolls Royce, International Air Transport Association (IATA) and SmartSky Networks, as well as businesses in the rising market for traffic management of unmanned drones.

Jeremy Bowen, Ciriums CEO said, Both companies share a common mission to free data from its legacy silos and assist it glide more fluently throughout the air transport industry. That is going to be critical if aviation is to obtain efficient and sustainable growth.

Combining Ciriums world-class analytics and international scale with Snowflakes knowledge in fusing and streaming flight information will deliver main advantages throughout air travel via better and more collaborative decision-making and ultimately smoother visitor journeys.

Ian Painter, Snowflakes founding CEO stated, The two businesses actually share a very similar vision for how data can create the future in air transport and Im excited to see what we can now achieve together. The combination has to be a massive success for the industry.

Snowflake will form part of Ciriums portfolio of aviation data analytics businesses, including: Diio, a leader in airline market intelligence tools; FlightStats, a provider of flight data for airline and travel sectors; and Innovata, a flight schedules company.

Snowflakes team of experts in Southampton will join about 500 Cirium technologists, analysts, data scientists and market professionals based in more than a dozen office areas across the world.

The transaction is subject to customary consents and is anticipated to complete later in the first quarter of 2020.

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