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Top 10 Reasons to Start Using Web Conferencing

whitepaper Web conferencing will reduce hard travel costs (flights, hotels, meals, and ground transportation) and soft travel costs (saved employee time). Web conferencing has been around for years now, and yet it seems that organizations still have some...

Tags: video conferencing

[12 May 2008]

Data Centers Are Adopting Green Initiatives But Are Wary of Vendors' Marketing Messages

whitepaper While the newspaper headlines target the growth of cheap flights as a leading cause of global warming, some commentators have suggested the IT industry is responsible for more carbon emissions than aviation.

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

A SAP NetWeaver Case Study: Business Value Impact for Lufthansa's Implementation of the SAP NetWeaver Component, Enterprise Portal (SAP EP)

whitepaper The airline quickly developed an excellent reputation with a large network in Europe and its flights to North America. Lufthansa was founded in Cologne Germany in 1953. The foundation for eBase was laid in 2000 when Lufthansa conducted a strategic...

Tags: sap, strategic, portal, north america

[10 Apr 2008]

Airline Gains Agile Collaboration and Improved Productivity With New Messaging System

whitepaper From its operations center in Lisbon, a strategic hub for flights from several continents, TAP flies to 43 destinations throughout 25 countries in Europe, Africa, and North and South America. TAP is a Portuguese airline market leader.

Tags: email

[17 Jan 2008]

Travel Company Boosts Relationships and Traffic With Customer Alerts

whitepaper The new Expedia Fare Alert gadget takes advantage of the capabilities in the Windows Vista operating system to deliver real-time alerts to the desktop when prices for three designated flights reach predetermined levels.

Tags: windows vista

[17 Jan 2008]

Italian Postal Service Enhances Decision Making for Increased Competitive Advantage

whitepaper It operates 13,500 post offices and distributes mail using 5,776 delivery offices, 41,000 vehicles, and 15 daily scheduled flights. Poste Italiane provides postal and financial services across Italy. In 2002, the organisation launched a technology...

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

OAG Reduces Costs by Automating Data Transfer Operations

whitepaper OAG receives data from the vast majority of airlines operating flights worldwide. This data, received in a variety of formats and with varying levels of consistency, needs to be cleaned, validated, stored, and redistributed to OAG's clients.

Tags: data acquisition - etl, custom, migration, rdbms

[05 Nov 2007]

JavaServer Faces: JSF Development Process Overview

whitepaper When the user picks his preferred flights, the application ensures that the seats are available and marks them as reserved, calculates the cost, verifies credit card information, and finalizes the purchase.

Tags: java, interface, flight, card

[17 Oct 2007]

Using Enterprise Portals to Improve Employee Engagement and Customer Satisfaction: United Airlines SkyNet Portal

whitepaper United Airlines (united.com) is one of the world's leading air carriers, offering 3,500 daily flights on a route network that spans the globe. Find out how United Airlines created a portal that motivates and empowers its employees - using a...

Tags: portals, portal, airlines, united airlines

[31 Jul 2007]

Southwest Airlines Flies High With Real-Time Flight Data

whitepaper SWIFT is a flight management tool consisting of applications for managing the fleet of aircraft and dispatching flights. In the airline industry, Southwest Airlines is considered a true maverick. By shaking up the rules of flying and improving upon...

Tags: industry standard protocols, tool, messaging, flight

[09 Jun 2007]

Munich Airport Manages ITIL-Based IT Infrastructure Using BMC

whitepaper It is one of the fastest-growing hubs in Europe and the world, with domestic flights already exceeding passenger numbers at Frankfurt Airport. Munich Airport is a leader in German air transportation. Munich Airport was looking to integrate its IT...

Tags: infrastructure management, airport, air, action

[18 Jan 2007]

ANMsoft Technologies Case Study: Online Travel Application

whitepaper The application offers one view travel for online booking for Hotel, Cars, Flights, and Package Tour. Online Travel application is designed for one of the largest players in the online travel space in India.

Tags: travel, online travel, databases, players

[28 Apr 2006]

BlackBerry for Small and Medium Businesses

whitepaper You need to stay connected to your business and customers no matter where your life takes you; whether you are in your car on the way to a client meeting, between flights at the airport or watching your kids' soccer game.

Tags: blackberry, life, car, matter

[12 Jan 2006]

McCarran International Airport Improves Passenger Safety With Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology

whitepaper McCarran International Airport handles nearly 70,000 passengers and more than 460 flights each day, making it the 7th busiest airport in the country according to Airports Council International. When officials at McCarran International Airport made...

Tags: international, airport, baggage, optimal

[08 Nov 2005]

Preventing Procure-to-Pay Fraud

whitepaper Nat provides practical advice on how to tighten internal controls, prevent malfeasance, stop theft, detect red flags, and safeguard company assets for 5 vulnerable P2P processes: 7 risk-mitigating tips for maintaining the master vendor file, 4...

Tags: techniques, theft, risk, purchasing

[20 Oct 2005]

Enterasys Multilayer Switches Help Airline Rise to Meet Customer Needs

whitepaper United Airlines, with more than 86,000 dedicated employees and more than 2,200 flights a day to nearly 140 destinations in more than 30 countries and territories, is committed to becoming the world's first choice in air travel by providing...

Tags: customer service, hand, connectivity, countries

[20 Sep 2005]

Qualcomm Case Study: American Airlines

whitepaper American Airlines is one of the world's largest airlines, serving more than 250 cities in more than 40 countries with more than 3,800 flights. The Mobility Solutions Group of American Airlines' IT Enterprise Technology Group and the Maintenance and...

Tags: tdma - cdma, maintenance, airlines, mechanics

[21 Jul 2005]

Electronic Document Management System Automates Review Process, Enables Compliance, and Slashes Maintenance Costs

whitepaper United Airlines is the second-largest air carrier in the world, with 3,400 daily flights to more than 680 locations around the globe. United wanted to maintain compliance while gaining better control over versioning, improving the legibility of...

Tags: routing, documents, documentum, locations

[31 May 2005]

The FDA and the Fight Against Terrorism

whitepaper Minutes after two hijacked airliners crashed into the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept.11, 2001, the Federal Aviation Administration stopped all flights from U.S.airports. It marked the first time that air traffic came to a halt nationwide.

Tags: physical infrastructure protection, administration, plane, world trade center

[14 Feb 2005]

Challenges Exist in Stabilizing and Enhancing Passenger and Baggage Screening Operations

whitepaper with hundreds of airports and thousands of flights daily carrying millions of passengers and pieces of baggage. Securing commercial aviation is a daunting task? In an effort to strengthen the security of commercial aviation, the Transportation...

Tags: physical infrastructure protection, commercial, aviation, screening

[21 Dec 2004]

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