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- As a father of 2 ten-year-old twins,
sustainability is always at
the forefront of your mind.
- Rolls-Royce has been around
for over a hundred years
and we want to be around
for a hundred years more.
To achieve that we will
need to decarbonize at pace.
- And find opportunities to use data
and data analytics to
design a better engine.
- Rolls-Royce operates in
some of the most critical
but also hardest to abate
sectors of the economy.
- The intelligent engine
platform has been one
of our more recent innovations
and it takes that data-driven
analysis that we've done
in the past to understand
our engines better
and it automates it,
it brings it into a
single digital experience.
So in the past, when we were on premise,
we could run a single
simulation at a time.
Since we've moved most of our
analytics stack now to Azure,
we're running at least a hundred
simulations simultaneously
and in general, they execute
in minutes rather than hours.
- The magnitude of data volume
and processing power
that we needed was just
not really possible or feasible
with an on-premise hosted infrastructure.
- We want to have a lasting
compute and storage.
That was one of the reasons moving
towards this cloud analytics capability.
- But also how can we
use digital insights to
optimize the kind of
operations that our customers
use as well? Reducing fuel.
- That's where we need a
really large, complex system to
process terabytes of the data.
- What we're trying to do is
use artificial intelligence,
machine learning, advanced analytics
to make better decisions,
to support humans in
doing their job better.
- The solutions we are building,
they are putting our customers
and our internal Rolls-Royce teams,
in a great position to deliver
business insights on time and right.
- A recent usage of the analytics platform
was to load environmental data
from some of the key routes
that our engines fly through.
Billions of rows worth of data.
And we loaded that really quickly
into the analytics platform.
- And it just ultimately allows
our engineers just to look
at the abnormalities,
rather than trying to sort
the wood for the trees.
- More and more of our digital
products and digital services
built upon Azure will
become the cornerstones
of the future of Rolls Royce.
- When we consider all
the data that we receive
from engines in service as
belonging to our customers.
So picking technologies that
we can trust to be secure.
- Something really important
for me choosing Azure,
and choosing it going forward.
- The future for Rolls-Royce
is really exciting.
Through partnerships like
the one with Microsoft
we will deliver a net zero carbon future.