Yocova (You Connect for Value), the open, neutral digital platform and ecosystem for the aviation industry, continues to pursue its growth strategy at pace with over 850 members from across the globe including professionals from airlines, digital/data vendors and other aviation industry players, such as airports and OEMs.
The end-to-end platform is designed to improve outcomes for the aviation industry, providing an unbiased platform for companies and professionals to collaborate, innovate and easily buy, sell and distribute leading digital solutions in the global marketplace.
Yocova has a membership plan for all aviation stakeholder types, each offering a suite of benefits to support your personal/ professional and business’ digital, growth and development objectives within aviation. From being an Individual professional member and supporting your networking and collaboration; a Yocova Partner programme member driving engagement and sales of your digital apps, analytics, solutions and services through the Marketplace; an Enterprise seeking to take their seat in the community; through to a Distributor member seeking to distribute and efficiently manage digital services and content to their fragmented global user community. There is a membership plan for you!
The Yocova community also provides a network of public forums and private working groups, so you can collaborate, exchange ideas and learn from peers, and gain insights on challenges and opportunities within the aviation arena.
Member Profiles
The Yocova community includes qualified professionals and enterprises from the global aviation community, extending across airlines, OEMs and the wider value chain to include MROs, lessors, airports, business jets and many others.
The demographic is set to extend from C-level through to functional and operational leadership and influencers across aviation and digital. The Airlines community for example, as the hub of the ecosystem includes leadership extending across Flight Operations, Maintenance, Safety & Quality, through to IT, Procurement and Sales & Marketing; Yocova building a rich community of movers, shakers and decision makers, to promote and accelerate collaboration and digital transformation . This demographic is coupled with a carefully curated membership of leading digital solutions and services providers, providing a rich Yocova ecosystem to support your personal and business objectives.
Four different groups of membership plans have been established for each of our stakeholder types:
Individual Membership
Individual members can connect and network with like-minded professionals across the global aviation value chain and digital community, driving collaboration and innovation around industry challenges, technologies and opportunities. It’s the perfect sounding board for ideas, issues and thought leadership – a great platform on which to be seen and heard. Get access to exclusive content, digital facilities and resources, plus the global Marketplace including the latest and leading apps, Data API’s, and digital services. It’s a global talent pool for industry collaboration. As an Individual Member you can:
- Easily set up your profile and gain access to the growing Yocova community, Marketplace and platform capabilities to support you and your organisations digital transformation, innovation and collaboration objectives.
- Connect and network with professionals across the aviation value chain and digital community; get access to exclusive content, digital collaboration facilities; plus the global Marketplace.
- Use Yocova as a single platform through which to access all your digital content purchased by you, and your Enterprise, or made accessible to you by your Enterprise OEM partners.
Why join? Unlock your potential, join colleagues and experts in an open and neutral platform for aviation that’s built on three pillars: Community, Data Rooms and Marketplace.
Enterprise Membership
Whether you’re an airline, an OEM, a lessor or any other aviation player, just like other memberships, Enterprise Members can set up their profile and engage and interact with the global community. As an Enterprise Member you can also control secure community rooms for public or private collaboration, enabling employees, customer groups and supply chain partners to safely engage. Yocova’s Data Rooms offer the opportunity for further secure data driven collaboration and engagement.
The ability to access, review, purchase, deploy and manage leading digital capabilities from the Marketplace offers lower risk and frictionless digital investments. Plus, Yocova gives you the potential to consolidate your digital procurement investment, and commercial/technical management through a single trusted platform.
In addition to purchasing and distributing content, where your OEM partners are using Yocova to distribute and manage their digital services, you can also access and authenticate digital content to select users across your enterprise.
Yocova is your secure platform to buy, sell, collaborate, innovate, network and share with the global aviation community, including your supply chain partners, customer groups and collaborators.
Why join? Access and engage with a diverse range of businesses, customers, suppliers and professionals to support digital transformation, innovation and collaboration objectives.
Yocova Partner Programme Membership
As an approved vendor you can set up trials, market and sell the following solution types in Yocova:
- Software – From plug-and-play applications to highly configurable software for aviation organisations
- Data – Data API subscriptions which enable customers to fuel their digital solutions, benchmark performance and more
- Services – Professional experts and consultancy services to accelerate digital transformation.
Yocova Partners are supported by the Yocova Customer Success Team to help position your business across the global community and deliver against your brand and capability awareness objectives. This is through articles, webinars and a wider set of engagement initiatives.
Yocova provides an additional route to supplement your existing go-to market channels; a sales and marketing force multiplier for your business through which to reduce cost of sale, and access highly targeted marketing qualified leads. And it’s a platform to deploy and manage user access throughout the customer lifecycle.
The collaboration group facilities enable you to set up private and customer user groups for product roadmaps, customer feedback, and thought-leadership groups to support the engagement and rolling feedback from your community. Yocova Data Rooms can support you in further secure co-collaboration with your customers and with the wider community to accelerate your roadmap and spawn new solutions to industry challenges.
Why join? We’re committed to helping your business. Fast track meeting your goals and objectives in this trusted marketing, sales and customer management platform.
Distributor Membership (Enterprise Member option)
As an additional option to your base Enterprise membership, Distributor Membership provides a single consolidated and scalable platform through which to distribute, authenticate, manage and update digital content across your user community. For OEMs managing a fragmented, complex portfolio of digital services, across an equally fragmented global customer and user base.
External Distributor Membership
Offers the benefit of a single, command and control platform for efficient and effective deployment, authentication and service management. Whether it be 5 apps across 5 user groups, or 100 across 100, Yocova provides the centralised management of your digital services.
Internal Distributor Membership
Addresses the same challenges for large enterprises seeking to consolidate and gain efficiency in the effective deployment and management of digital content across their internal estate.
Premium Distributor
Builds on this capability, offering a branded portal within Yocova through which to serve up your digital services and providing a dedicated customer feed/ communication hub with notification API facility. The portal can be set as the landing page for your user community within Yocova, and provides the benefit of supporting SSO enabled applications. Your branded home within Yocova for effective, efficient user community management and engagement.
Testimonials
Yocova is built to maximize benefits to its members, streamline workflows, and enhance connection within the sector.
The platform has already gained a myriad of testimonials. For example, according to Shane Ballman, CEO of SynapseMX: “Not only does Yocova enable collaboration to solve industry problems with people you might never otherwise meet, but the Marketplace also lets you easily see new industry-specific solutions you can use to make your work life easier. Brilliant!”.
Speaking of the benefits the platform has provided to Snowflake Software, Niha Shaikh, Product Manager said: “Yocova is ideal for providing Laminar Data Hub with an excellent market outreach at a rapid pace. This gave us the opportunity to host innovation sprints, which generated interest in the data we source and validated strategies for future improvements.”
Why Yocova?
By connecting professionals across the aviation industry, from software and data providers, to consultants and experts in maintenance, operations and safety, Yocova helps businesses to evolve at pace and easily connect and collaborate with other companies within the sector.
In a world of shifting priorities, ever-changing restrictions and increasing unpredictability in the aviation industry, the Yocova platform unites businesses and professionals, and builds connections within the sector. This is now more important than ever before.
As the Yocova ecosystem evolves, its membership is growing and digital transformation across the sector is accelerating. Becoming a member of this ever-increasing community is easy and flexible, and provides fast access to a stakeholder community across the global aviation value chain. With tailored membership plans available, whether you are an individual, business, partner, or distributor, signing up to Yocova opens doors for you to connect, market, or digitally enhance your business or career within the aviation industry today.
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