TomTom and Microsoft join forces to bring location-based services to Azure

TomTom and Microsoft have formed a partnership that aims to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform, based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software. TomTom plans 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.
December 16, 2016 Read time: 1 min
1692 TomTom and Microsoft have formed a partnership that aims to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform, based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software.

TomTom plans 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.

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