IBA GROUP
IBA Group USE OAG DATA TO BUILD, ADVISE AND INNOVATE TO LEAD THE AVIATION FINANCE INDUSTRY
IBA Group, established in 1988, is a British company offering aviation intelligence and advisory services, including software, data valuations, asset management, and technical support. Here's how they work with OAG to remain the market leader.
IBA GROUP'S Story
Founded in 1988, IBA Group is a British aviation intelligence and advisory provider, offering market-leading software, data valuations, asset management, and technical services to the financial and aviation industries. Specializing in aviation finance, IBA’s extensive market, flight, and fleet data, along with their decades of expertise, empowers their customers with greater confidence and assurance.
Their customers include the world’s top 100 operating lessors, as well as global banks and airlines, and they have over 100 aircraft under their serviced management agreements. IBA offers a range of consultancy services and a suite of innovative tech products, including IBA Insight and IBA Airlines. IBA Insight is an intelligence-led data and analytics platform, with multiple data-rich dashboards that identify opportunities and risks across aircraft assets, operators, and lessors.
The Challenge
Airline schedules data is critical to feed into IBA’s award-winning products, dashboards, and advisory offerings. Tracking the performance and capacity of hundreds of airlines a year, producing accurate and actionable insights, and ensuring that they achieve and maintain the highest quality of data is essential to both IBA and their customers.
"IBA has always believed in leveraging relationships between its own proprietary data and those provided by market leaders, outside of its area of specialism. IBA identified use cases for Schedules data; to help the finance industry understand the overall confidence of the aviation market by assessing planned global capacity. Naturally, when Schedules data was identified as a product requirement and a consultancy imperative, IBA turned to the industry leaders in this space."
Nick Stafford, Product Development and Digital Transformation Director, IBA Group
With an analytics-first approach to building products, IBA needed a trusted partner who could deliver reliable, accurate, and comprehensive Schedules data, through a flexible platform designed to scale and grow. With data needed to build dashboards in IBA Insight and IBA Airlines, they also needed to surface the deep context required for their consultancy services, along with being able to future-proof and develop products and services. IBA needed a market-leading partner who could offer support, advice, and guidance on a long-term basis to transform their current tech and innovate.
The Solution
Powered by Snowflake, OAG’s Flight Info Direct, a cloud-enabled platform, is a ready-to-query interface that enables the entire travel ecosystem with high-quality aviation data. Flexible and integration-friendly, Flight Info Direct provides a pathway to improve operational processes through automation and secure access to the latest and freshest data. This provides a single source of truth and allows teams to dig into the detail, getting just the insights they need, or viewing the entire database for an accurate overview of the landscape, all in one place. With Flight Info Direct, IBA has unlocked versatile, reliable and comprehensive data that can supercharge their product innovation.
Using Flight Info Direct, IBA can access the highest quality and most comprehensive Global Airline Schedules Data, spanning from 2019 to a 12-month, forward-looking projection. With rich frequency and capacity data, Global Airline Schedules Data provides key data points, such as core flight schedule data, flight segments, and legs, operating and marketing flights, aircraft type, and much more. IBA Insight’s Global Capacity and Operator Capacity dashboards are powered by Schedules data, and their award-winning dashboards display charting tools allow users to make selections to understand capacity at a global level, and capacity at an operator level.
Flight Info Direct has transformed the way IBA builds, develops and delivers its analytics products and advisory. With the deep insights Schedules data surfaces, teams can replicate, adapt, and apply data points across their tech offering due to its reliable versatility. By combining IBA’s proprietary data with OAG Global Airline Schedules Data, IBA can provide both the products and the insights that their customers want and need.
The results
After implementing Flight Info Direct, IBA has gone from strength to strength in product development, providing quality advisory, and cementing their place as the market leader. IBA have been enabled to power their offering with the highest quality Schedules data from OAG. Producing innovative and versatile solutions and delivering accurate and powerful advisory, IBA have enhanced their market-leading reputation.
With everything in one place, IBA’s customers and clients can now access the insights that they need, and confidently gain the insight to make data-informed decisions and strategize for success. These key differentiators have enabled IBA to gain market share, earn trust and unlock opportunities for development and expansion. IBA’s successes with Flight Info Direct, both commercially and operationally, mean they are in the perfect position to keep building products that their customers love, innovate sustainably, and lead the industry with OAG.
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“Schedules data is the final piece of the puzzle that allows us to build a holistic view of global fleets, flights and planned capacity. They are also a useful indicator of management confidence when evaluating individual airlines. Our decision to partner with OAG reflects our confidence in their market-leading datasets and delivery platforms.”
Kathleen Cowans, Chief Revenue Officer IBA Group
OAG has the most flexible frequency delivery capability in the market. Its fast and easy to use data solutions and APIs ensure flexible integration and enable technology providers to manage and control their own supply of air travel data – which maximizes efficiency, saves money and creates an unrivalled competitive advantage. OAG’s schedules and flight status data solutions have become the number one choice for technology providers, travel management companies and innovators.