Sustainable digital transformation at Rolls-Royce

As the world transitions to a net zero carbon future, the industries in which Rolls-Royce operates are some of the most critical – but they are also some of the hardest to abate. However, its employees have an exciting role to play in helping airlines reduce the carbon they produce. Rolls-Royce understood that the power to optimise carbon output lay in processing, modelling and interrogating flight data. Rolls-Royce turned to Microsoft Azure for the compute power required. Combining this with Microsoft Power BI enabled Rolls-Royce to serve new data insights to the engineering team. Sadaf Shah, Software Engineer at Rolls-Royce, says, “Last week, we managed to run 100 billion flights in Databricks on the Azure platform – this is just incredible.” Rolls-Royce can use these insights to not just help their customers deliver a net zero future, but to also drive performance improvements, allowing their teams to innovate at pace.

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