  The unprecedented volume, diversity and richness of aviation data that can be
acquired, generated, stored, and managed provides unique capabilities for the
aviation-related industries and pertains value that remains to be unlocked with
the adoption of the innovative Big Data Analytics technologies. Despite the
large efforts and investments on research and innovation, the Big Data
technologies introduce a number of challenges to its adopters. Besides the
effective storage and access to the underlying big data, efficient data
integration and data interoperability should be considered, while at the same
time multiple data sources should be effectively combined by performing data
exchange and data sharing between the different stakeholders. However, this
reveals additional challenges for the crucial preservation of the information
security of the collected data, the trusted and secure data exchange and data
sharing, as well as the robust data access control. The current paper aims to
introduce the ICARUS big data-enabled platform that aims provide a multi-sided
platform that offers a novel aviation data and intelligence marketplace
accompanied by a trusted and secure analytics workspace. It holistically
handles the complete big data lifecycle from the data collection, data curation
and data exploration to the data integration and data analysis of data
originating from heterogeneous data sources with different velocity, variety
and volume in a trusted and secure manner.
