AccuWeather Join Forces with Microsoft to Add New Capabilities to Microsoft Azure Maps
AccuWeather partners with Microsoft to provide its world-class technical capabilities within its global-scale Microsoft Azure Maps geospatial data analytics platform, helping businesses worldwide.
FREMONT, CA: AccuWeather announces the integration of its weather data on Microsoft Azure Maps, making it Azure Maps exclusive weather provider. This latest partnership indicates recognition by Microsoft of AccuWeather's proven superiority in weather forecast accuracy to advantage its enterprise customers.
The integration of AccuWeather's data and weather forecasts and warnings into the Azure Maps platform complements and broadens the offering of other types of mapping data, like traffic and public transportation. Now, Microsoft customers have access to accurate weather forecast data, as validated by several independent studies, comprising industry tracker ForecastWatch, proprietary features, and benefits, such as the patented AccuWeather MinuteCast minute-by-minute precipitation forecasts, daily forecast, current conditions, and global coverage.
Azure Maps includes AccuWeather severe weather alerts offered by AccuWeather to deliver people and firms with critical, timely notifications when dangerous weather threatens the protection of life and property and assists ensure enhanced safety business continuity. AccuWeather's pioneering radar and satellite map tiles integrate all available sources of radar information, allowing clients to view conditions in high resolution and detail. Weather Along a Route is a proprietary feature integrated into the platform by AccuWeather. Working in conjunction with the AccuWeather MinuteCast, this feature offers up-to-the-minute weather forecasts offering clients access to weather conditions at every point along a journey.
This added intelligence delivers a new dimension to Azure Maps. It is key to transportation and logistics companies for supply chain and ground operations and across industries, empowering Microsoft clients the convenience and potential to make better weather-impacted decisions for greater safety, situational awareness, operational efficiency, and better profits reduced losses. This partnership will allow Microsoft customers to access the critical weather data to make optimal decisions for their operations, supply chain, and marketing that will undoubtedly impact their bottom line.
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