VRP and Rolls-Royce drive innovation in the aviation market|VRP Consulting
The R2 Information Labs department of Rolls-Royce had a vision to drive collaboration within the aviation market by producing an open, secure data exchange, market and incubation platform, using Salesforce technology. Bringing this business grade platform to market would need appealing with Salesforce technical specialists, who have the depth of experience in architecture and design, the capability to deliver rapidly, and likewise the vision to bring imagination and ingenious concepts to the table.
Yocova was publicly launched by
Rolls-Royce in February this year. Dmitry Zhugin, the CTO of VRP
Consulting and the Business Designer on the program, shares his
recollections on the last 18 months of working closely with Rolls-Royce and
their partners.
Suggested by Salesforce
VRP Consulting was invited to the project in September 2018 on the
suggestion of Salesforce. At that time, VRP was both an Item Development Outsourcer
and Silver Consulting Partner (because December 2019 a Gold Consulting partner). With a team of 400+ Salesforce experts
and professionals, experienced in a comprehensive series of tasks throughout numerous
industries, the mix of both item and Salesforce application experience
combined with hybrid regional and near-shore delivery was attractive to Rolls-Royce.
All systems are Go.
Starting with rapid prototyping and roadmapping, the cross-party
job team accelerated through style validation to a successful alpha launch
to selected members in just 3 months. We then broadened the team to deliver the
beta platform, increasing speed to style and provide more functions and
supply business connection to apps, APIs and data rooms through the
market and within the platform. A nimble approach and iterative release of
production features to support accompanying data leader and ISV incubator
programs delivered a new way of working for the beta platform members from various
airlines, OEMs, ISVs and IDVs within air travel.
What is Yocova?
Yocova is a.
neutral platform where the aviation neighborhood comes together to exchange.
info and ideas, to improve results for the whole market and fix.
long standing market difficulties.
Consisting of a neighborhood of air travel leaders, information researchers, software experts and designers that utilize the platform to discuss concepts and insight to establish ingenious options. This platform facilitates issue fixing and the co-creation of solutions, permitting data owners to remain in control of how their data is used throughout. Air travel specific services and data sets can be bought or accelerated via brand-new ventures through the Solutions Partnership Program.
” We are.
already seeing excellent worth in dealing with our market peers to unlock our.
combined information sources and produce unique digital service options that could.
genuinely improve the future of aviation”
Caroline Gorski, Group Director, R2Information.
Labs
To illustrate the power of information collaboration within Yocova, VRP.
took part with aviation ISVs in a competition to take an information source, solve.
an industry problem and produce a brand-new API that would be readily available through the.
Yocova market for other member to take advantage.
Throughout one of our program workshops, the team remembered a business journey to London, when, due to a flight delay, we missed train connections and got here very late. This led to the idea of creating an application to find recent average data on flight delays on the airline companies and airports, on all suggested routes in between cities. Offering travelers with more data points at the time of booking might drive route optimization from the front.
” In simply two weeks we used the platform to deliver a working API.
and listing in the marketplace. It was a dazzling experience to see how our.
deal with platform might be used in genuine life by ISVs. Overall, we are pleased.
to be part of the Yocova program team of incredibly dedicated and talented.
people.”
Dmitry Zhugin,
CTO VRP Consulting
The future is looking bright
There’s more to come as we continue to work through the Yocova roadmap to add more features to help members resolve more aviation problems, particularly through the issues of fleets being grounded throughout the pandemic and into the safe resumption of regular organisation activities.
The VRP Consulting team are really excited about the future as we.
continue to innovate with R2 Information Labs on this exciting and ingenious.
program.
Learn how VRP Consulting sped up style to alpha model in 3 months, beta released within 6 months to 100+ airlines, OEMs and ISVs and supported the market launch of Yocova in Feb 2020 in the full Yocova case research study.