Deutsche Lufthansa (Lufthansa) ranks among the world's leading airlines and is Europe's third largest. Despite operating in a tough market where cost cutting is commonplace, Lufthansa has built a premium brand synonymous with quality, innovation, reliability, competence and safety.
Challenge
- Improve revenue management system to secure more high-yield passengers
- Increase computing performance to allow for more complex forecasting and optimisation of bookings and cancellations across 1,800 daily flights
- Support company’s growth by deploying powerful, cost-effective IT infrastructure
Solution
- Deploy Intel® Itanium processor-based HP servers running HP-UX* 11i v2 operating system and Oracle Database 9i* to handle vast amounts of data analysed and generated by the O&D Forecaster, a co-development of Lufthansa and Lufthansa Systems Berlin, and PROS O&D Passenger Revenue Optimisation* software
- Provide breakthrough performance to create more detailed and accurate forecasting criteria resulting in better seat and passenger allocation
- Establish powerful and scalable infrastructure to support
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