It wasn’t all that long ago that Boeing didn’t even have an IT department, let alone any processes in place to make use of the massive amount of data it collected to improve its aircraft manufacturing efforts.
But today’s aircraft couldn’t be manufactured without a significant amount of BI and data management. Boeing today moves 60 petabytes around its network, and the company is in the middle of several Big Data pilot projects as well. Let’s see what they’ve been cooking up.