TIBCO Software Case Studies Scandinavian Airline Service Flies High with TIBCO

	Scandinavian Airline Service Flies High with TIBCO TIBCO Software

Scandinavian Airline Service Flies High with TIBCO

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms
Applicable Industries	Transportation
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Logistics & Transportation
Use Cases	Fleet Management Predictive Maintenance Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services System Integration
Challenge	As Katarina Khan, head of enterprise architecture, explains, “Over the last 20 years, the airline industry has evolved from a system of long-established, state-owned carriers to a dynamic free-market industry. There are a lot of low-cost airlines now, and for passengers, it’s become very much about a digital experience—self-service apps for booking, re-booking, and flight updates. “Back in 2001, our challenge was to move away from old point-to-point integrations and become more loosely coupled—to reuse integrations and have a very reliable, secure, high-performing infrastructure. We wanted to give the business a shorter time to market and make it easy to integrate with partners and communicate with our customers in a modern way. If we didn’t modernize, it would have been very difficult to deploy new solutions to meet customer demand.” Read More
About Customer	SAS is Scandinavia’s leading airline. Its vision is to make life easier for Scandinavia´s frequent travelers. With SAS you become part of a community experiencing easy, joyful, and reliable services, delivered the Scandinavian way. Its strategic priorities are to keep up with trends and industry developments, ensure competitiveness, and provide the prerequisites for long-term sustainable profitability. Read More
Solution	Continues Ms. Khan, “In 2001—this was before my time—we did an evaluation, and the choice obviously was TIBCO. I think our goal from the beginning didn’t change that much, we just decided to implement in phases, and started with TIBCO’s enterprise service bus. In the second phase, around 2006, we implemented a new co-management system, which required a lot of integrations and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™. We wanted a more service-oriented architecture so that every time a flight takes off, a message would be sent to backend systems. The next major phase was around 2010 when we decommissioned our old homegrown system for modern ticketing, reservation, inventory-management, and departure-control systems. At that time, we did a new evaluation because we had a lot of Microsoft technology, so we actually compared TIBCO with Microsoft and decided to keep and expand TIBCO. After that, we invested more in our integration platform using ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ and TIBCO® Managed File Transfer, which was a good way to control our batch FTP and SFTP jobs. TIBCO had a very important role as a data hub to create these integrations from one system to all our backend systems. At the end of this program, we also established our integration competency center, the ICC. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Connectivity Platforms

Applicable Industries

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Fleet Management

Predictive Maintenance

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

System Integration

Challenge

As Katarina Khan, head of enterprise architecture, explains, “Over the last 20 years, the airline industry has evolved from a system of long-established, state-owned carriers to a dynamic free-market industry. There are a lot of low-cost airlines now, and for passengers, it’s become very much about a digital experience—self-service apps for booking, re-booking, and flight updates. “Back in 2001, our challenge was to move away from old point-to-point integrations and become more loosely coupled—to reuse integrations and have a very reliable, secure, high-performing infrastructure. We wanted to give the business a shorter time to market and make it easy to integrate with partners and communicate with our customers in a modern way. If we didn’t modernize, it would have been very difficult to deploy new solutions to meet customer demand.”

About Customer

SAS is Scandinavia’s leading airline. Its vision is to make life easier for Scandinavia´s frequent travelers. With SAS you become part of a community experiencing easy, joyful, and reliable services, delivered the Scandinavian way. Its strategic priorities are to keep up with trends and industry developments, ensure competitiveness, and provide the prerequisites for long-term sustainable profitability.

Solution

Continues Ms. Khan, “In 2001—this was before my time—we did an evaluation, and the choice obviously was TIBCO. I think our goal from the beginning didn’t change that much, we just decided to implement in phases, and started with TIBCO’s enterprise service bus. In the second phase, around 2006, we implemented a new co-management system, which required a lot of integrations and TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™. We wanted a more service-oriented architecture so that every time a flight takes off, a message would be sent to backend systems. The next major phase was around 2010 when we decommissioned our old homegrown system for modern ticketing, reservation, inventory-management, and departure-control systems. At that time, we did a new evaluation because we had a lot of Microsoft technology, so we actually compared TIBCO with Microsoft and decided to keep and expand TIBCO. After that, we invested more in our integration platform using ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks™ and TIBCO® Managed File Transfer, which was a good way to control our batch FTP and SFTP jobs. TIBCO had a very important role as a data hub to create these integrations from one system to all our backend systems. At the end of this program, we also established our integration competency center, the ICC.

Impact #1	The integration platform was again very important in 2013 through 2014 when we had a huge project to change our main supplier for system operation and maintenance. During the transition to the new vendor, we moved very smoothly rerouting the integrations to each application. For us, the stability and reliability of this platform is key. We trust TIBCO. Our integration platform is central to our infrastructure environment.
Impact #2	Our web app for 24/7 passenger check-in is an example of functionality enabled by the integration platform. Also, for the in-flight management system, there are a lot of messages that need to go through many processes and many systems. Real-time messaging allows us to have an overall smooth flight operation.
Impact #3	It’s much easier for us to re-use services and messages now. It’s difficult to say how much we reuse, but our goal is at least 50%. We document integration specifications so we can see what we have, which helps when new requirements come in. The ICC supports all the projects and provides shared integration services. Because they are experts in this area, they maintain the platform. They have a very good understanding of all our implementations.

Impact #1

The integration platform was again very important in 2013 through 2014 when we had a huge project to change our main supplier for system operation and maintenance. During the transition to the new vendor, we moved very smoothly rerouting the integrations to each application. For us, the stability and reliability of this platform is key. We trust TIBCO. Our integration platform is central to our infrastructure environment.

Impact #2

Our web app for 24/7 passenger check-in is an example of functionality enabled by the integration platform. Also, for the in-flight management system, there are a lot of messages that need to go through many processes and many systems. Real-time messaging allows us to have an overall smooth flight operation.

Impact #3

It’s much easier for us to re-use services and messages now. It’s difficult to say how much we reuse, but our goal is at least 50%. We document integration specifications so we can see what we have, which helps when new requirements come in. The ICC supports all the projects and provides shared integration services. Because they are experts in this area, they maintain the platform. They have a very good understanding of all our implementations.

Benefit #1	Our goal is to reuse at least 50% of services and messages.

Benefit #1

Our goal is to reuse at least 50% of services and messages.

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