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Versant Object Database

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Inventory Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	Sabre Holdings, a world leader in the travel marketplace, was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. The challenge was processing Origination and Destination, also known as Airline Inventory, which requires massive transactional throughput. Relational technology was not a good fit for this task. Sabre was looking to migrate from an expensive and proprietary IBM Mainframe System, TPF, to an open system solution using an object-oriented design approach to run its SabreSonic Inventory System. Read More
About Customer	Sabre Holdings is a world leader in the travel marketplace. The company merchandises and retails travel products and provides distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel agents, corporations, and travel suppliers around the world through its four companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Airline Solutions, Sabre Hospitality Solutions. The company was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. Read More
Solution	The solution to Sabre's challenge was the Versant Object Database. This database offered extreme performance and extreme complexity capabilities that directly addressed the database requirements of Sabre’s increasingly complex and evolving data sets. The Versant-based system was implemented to run Sabre's SabreSonic Inventory System, which provides real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

Sabre Holdings, a world leader in the travel marketplace, was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. The challenge was processing Origination and Destination, also known as Airline Inventory, which requires massive transactional throughput. Relational technology was not a good fit for this task. Sabre was looking to migrate from an expensive and proprietary IBM Mainframe System, TPF, to an open system solution using an object-oriented design approach to run its SabreSonic Inventory System.

About Customer

Sabre Holdings is a world leader in the travel marketplace. The company merchandises and retails travel products and provides distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel agents, corporations, and travel suppliers around the world through its four companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Airline Solutions, Sabre Hospitality Solutions. The company was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites.

Solution

The solution to Sabre's challenge was the Versant Object Database. This database offered extreme performance and extreme complexity capabilities that directly addressed the database requirements of Sabre’s increasingly complex and evolving data sets. The Versant-based system was implemented to run Sabre's SabreSonic Inventory System, which provides real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites.

Impact #1	The Versant database has a small hardware footprint that supports a massive amount of transactions.
Impact #2	The Versant-based system currently runs 50% of the transactional traffic for Sabre, with 30 airlines on the system.

Impact #1

The Versant database has a small hardware footprint that supports a massive amount of transactions.

Impact #2

The Versant-based system currently runs 50% of the transactional traffic for Sabre, with 30 airlines on the system.

Benefit #1	The Versant-based system currently runs 50% of the transactional traffic for Sabre.

Benefit #1

The Versant-based system currently runs 50% of the transactional traffic for Sabre.

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Versant Object Database

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