The partnership comes as both Altia and Microsoft look to modernise and secure the delivery of industry specific solutions to public safety and justice agencies, globally.

Combining Altia’s fit-for-purpose investigative and intelligence platforms with Microsoft’s Azure cloud and cognitive service; the partners look to leverage the scalability, heightened security and artificial intelligence services to deliver modernised, cost effective, scalable and intelligent services to new and existing clients.

With a move to Microsoft Azure, customers can expect to see a reduction in provisioning, running and maintenance costs; a rapidly scalable environment to meet mission critical workloads and eventually, the benefits of artificial intelligence and cognitive services, right from their Altia product(s) user experience.