Aeroflot and Sber have agreed on strategic cooperation. The document was signed by President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Herman Gref and CEO of Aeroflot Sergey Alexandrovsky at the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum.
Achieving the goals of import substitution to ensure technological independence of business is the priority of cooperation. The partners plan to fulfil the task based on Platform V, Sber’s digital platform. The parties are set to cooperate around the use of SberPay payment services, digital services and professional training programs, data storage and processing, Internet of Things, IaaS-, PaaS-, SaaS-solutions, machine vision, cloud-based solutions and analytical products based on big data.
President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Herman Gref said:
“We work jointly with Aeroflot on a wide range of issues, we finance investment projects and day-to-day operations. Under this agreement, we focus on strengthening cooperation in technological sector, which has now acquired a key role. The main goal of the agreement is to help the company to quickly adapt to new realities, streamline the process of import substitution and boost efficiency of all aspects of business to remain the Russian air transport leader.”
CEO of Aeroflot Sergey Alexandrovsky said:
“Aeroflot is the well-known leader in terms of dynamics of innovation introduction in the aviation industry. It is digital transformation that ensures efficiency of operations of an airline. It is now especially important to get the support of a reliable Russian partner company with enormous experience in the integration of digital services, data storage and processing, Internet of Things and big data. Further development of cooperation with Sber will allow us to address new strategic challenges facing Aeroflot. Introducing Sber’s cutting-edge products in the airline’s business processes will both ensure technological independence of the national carrier and personalize airline passenger service.”
Platform V embraces software products satisfying the development needs at all levels of the company’s architecture: frontline, back office, integration, storage and data analytics as well as providing a complete set of tools to administer production and implement AI models.











