Renault-Nissan and Microsoft will work together to develop next generation connected services for cars powered by Microsoft Azure, one of the company’s intelligent cloud offerings. These new services will improve customer experience via advanced navigation, predictive maintenance and vehicle centric services, remote monitoring of car features, external mobile experiences, and over-the-air updates.

The Renault-Nissan Alliance is pioneering autonomous driving and connectivity features on mainstream, mass market vehicles at affordable prices. The Alliance aims to develop connectivity technologies and features to support the launch of more than 10 vehicles with autonomous driving technology by 2020 with services to maximise better use of newly found in-car free time.

Renault-Nissan will continuously develop and launch new connected services and applications that make it easier for people to stay connected to work, entertainment, and social networks; and offer vehicle-centric services that will simplify and enhance engagement with the car through usage-based information, remote access, remote diagnostics, and preventive maintenance.

Renault-Nissan selected Azure in part because of its enterprise-grade security and Microsoft's rigorous commitment to compliance. In addition, Azure supports multiple operating systems, programming languages and tools; providing flexibility and the choice of building a common platform for Renault-Nissan to deploy services to both Alliance brands.