21 Dec 16
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TomTom and Microsoft partner to bring services to Azure

TomTom and Microsoft

Technology companies TomTom and Microsoft will partner to bring location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform, based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software. TomTom is planning to integrate its services into Azure to make it even easier and more flexible for developers to build and manage enterprise, mobile, web and “Internet of Things” applications that are location aware.

“Location is fast becoming a critical component of a broad range of applications and services. Teaming up with Microsoft will bring our technology to a much broader developer community on a platform they are already familiar with,” said Harold Goddijn, TomTom CEO.

“Making TomTom’s services available through the Microsoft Azure cloud platform will allow developers and our customers to make location a core part of their cloud-based applications,” said Peggy Johnson, EVP of Business Development at Microsoft.

Location based services from TomTom are used by various multinational and global companies. They rely on TomTom to provide the most up-to-date maps, real-time traffic information and traffic-avoiding navigation.

 

Picture: TomTom

Authored by: Steven Schoefs