"By day 3, we were already up and running. Normally it would take a couple of months just to get set up. We were pleasantly surprised how much support we received throughout the whole process."
Challenge
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 for Origination and Destination processing, also known as Airline Inventory. The massive amount of transactional throughput made relational technology unusable within the Sabre Sonic Inventory System application, which provides real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other web sites.
Solution
Versant's Extreme Performance and Extreme Complexitity capabilities directly addressed the database requirements of Sabre's increasingly complex and evolving data sets.
Results
Advantages: small hardware footprint to support massive amount
of transactions. Versant based system currently runs 50% of the transactional traffic for
Sabre, with 30 airlines on the system.
About Sabre
As a world leader in the travel marketplace, Sabre Holdings 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.