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- February 7, 2019
- 5 minutes read
TomTom Selects Microsoft Azure As Preferred Cloud Provider
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella image : Microsoft Dutch mapping company TomTom and Microsoft have announced an expansion of their partnership, that…
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| Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
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Dutch mapping company TomTom and Microsoft have announced an expansion of their partnership, that will see maps and traffics data from TomTom integrated into mapping scenarios on Microsoft cloud services. TomTom will now be the leading location data provider for the Microsoft Azure cloud service and also Bing Maps. The company has also chosen Azure as its preferred cloud provider, marking another notable name to do so, after pharmacy chain Walgreens did this sometime last month.
Azure Maps, one that delivers location application programming interfaces (APIs) to provide location based data, is utilized by both developers and enterprises in fields like asset tracking, logistics and IoT. TomTom now being the leading location data provider for the service is an up for the company, which says it reaches 800 million people around the globe on a daily basis.
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| Microsoft Azure corporate vice president Julia White
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It says its portfolio consists of more than 19 trillion data points, getting to many worldwide. “….We’re excited to be chosen as the location data provider to power mapping services across all of Microsoft, including Bing, Cortana, Windows and many other leading products and the innovations that will come forward in this continued relationship.” TomTom managing director Anders Truelsen said in a statement.
“This deep partnership with TomTom is very different from anything Microsoft has done in maps before,” Tara Prakriya, Microsoft partner group program manager of Azure Maps and Connected Vehicles added. “TomTom hosting their services in the Azure cloud brings with it their graph of map data. Manufacturing maps in Azure reduces the latency to customer applications, ensuring we offer the freshest data through Azure Maps. Azure customers across industries end up winning when their geospatial data and analytics, TomTom data, and Azure Maps services are all running together in the same cloud.”
This move cements TomTom’s stance as a leading independent location technology provider.
