Veryon buys safety-data firm Polaris Aero, adding it to its maintenance software business

Veryon has acquired Polaris Aero, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based safety-management software company, adding more than 200 new customers and a large safety dataset to Veryon's existing maintenance-software business. Polaris Aero's products, VOCUS SMS, FlightRisk and GroundRisk, serve corporate flight departments, charter operators and MROs, and its database includes more than 112,000 safety reports, 32 million risk assessments and 174 million flight-hazard records, which Veryon plans to combine with its own dataset of over 100 million maintenance events. Veryon CEO Bethany Little said the deal is "a pivotal step towards better alignment between aviation safety and maintenance." In the near term, Polaris Aero will keep operating as a standalone business unit with its existing products and support unchanged, while Veryon works toward longer-term integration that would let customers access maintenance tracking, safety management and MRO tools from one provider. Veryon also says the combined data will feed into Veryon AIRE, its AI-powered analytics platform, to sharpen its safety and maintenance insights.