Sabre Airline Solutions and Sun Microsystems Take Airlines to New Heights With Next-Generation ASP Portal
May 11 2004 - 9:01AM
PR Newswire (US)
Sabre Airline Solutions and Sun Microsystems Take Airlines to New
Heights With Next-Generation ASP Portal Powered By Sun Java (TM)
Enterprise System components, Sabre eMergo Slashes Airline Cost By
Up To 50 Percent SANTA CLARA, Calif. and SOUTHLAKE, Texas, May 11
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems Inc. and Sabre Airline
Solutions announce they have teamed to design and implement a
next-generation architecture for Sabre Airline Solution's
application service provider (ASP) portal offering, the Sabre
eMergo Web-enabled and dedicated network solutions. Based on
Java(TM) Enterprise System components and Sun Fire(TM) servers, the
Sabre eMergo offering has dramatically reduced IT cost by as much
as 50 percent for participating airline carriers worldwide. As a
result, the new portal infrastructure has quickly scaled to support
300 percent revenue growth for eMergo in 2003. Sabre Airline
Solutions provides decision-support software products, passenger
management solutions and consulting services to airlines worldwide.
The eMergo delivery method follows an ASP model, which delivers
Sabre Airline Solution applications designed to help airlines
realize savings in hardware and software, system implementation,
support personnel, data storage and ongoing maintenance. "Recently
ranked among the nation's largest and most innovative users of
information technology, Sabre Airline Solutions is committed to
developing new travel commerce technology to meet the demand of the
rapidly changing airline industry," said Steve Clampett, president
of Airline Products and Services for Sabre Airline Solutions. "Our
strategic relationship with Sun has helped us offer solutions that
help airlines cut costs while generating increased revenue in
today's challenging market." Today, the eMergo environment delivers
identity-enabled, personalized services -- more than 20 different
applications to over 54 airlines worldwide through a common ASP
offering. Teaming with Sabre Airline Solutions, Sun Services
designed its next-generation ASP portal offering, based on key
software components of the Java Enterprise System including
Java(TM) System Portal Server, Java(TM) System Identity Server,
Java(TM) System Directory Server and the Java(TM) System Web
Server. The solution runs on the Solaris(TM) 9 Operating System,
the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM)) and Sun Fire(TM)
V880 servers to meet the performance requirements for the portal
solution. Sun's next-generation architecture for the customer's ASP
portal offering is enabling Sabre Airline Solutions to achieve
notable results, including: -- 30 percent to 50 percent reduction
in total cost of ownership for customers -- 100 percent faster
implementation of new applications "Sun is focused on helping Sabre
Airline Solutions meet the objective of delivering services and
solutions designed to optimize airline operations and reduce cost,"
said Marissa Peterson, Executive Vice President, Network Services,
Worldwide Operations and Chief Customer Advocate at Sun. "To
execute on this, we delivered the technical consulting expertise,
services and innovative technology solutions, based on the Java
Enterprise System, to enable Sabre Airline Solutions to offer its
customers ground-breaking airline solutions at a reduced cost."
About Sabre Airline Solutions Sabre Airline Solutions, a Sabre
Holdings company, is the world's largest provider of software
products, reservation and departure control systems and consulting
services to help airlines simplify operations and lower costs. Over
200 airlines worldwide use Sabre Airline Solutions' broad portfolio
of software solutions for decision-support tools to increase
revenues and improve operations. Over 100 airlines worldwide rely
on Sabre Airline Solutions for passenger management solutions, with
15 new carriers added and nine carrier renewals for the SabreSonic
Res advanced reservations and departure control systems in 2003. In
addition, more than 100 clients worldwide have turned to Sabre
Airline Solutions' consulting group for strategic, commercial and
operational consulting. More than 500 contracts worldwide were
signed in 2003 within Sabre Airline Solutions. Sabre Holdings
Corporation (NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce,
retailing travel products and providing distribution and technology
solutions for the travel industry. More information about Sabre
Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com/. About Sun
Microsystems, Inc. Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision
-- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun
Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of
industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the
World Wide Web at http://sun.com/ Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun
logo, Java, Solaris, J2EE, Sun Fire and The Network Is The Computer
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
in the US and other countries. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Jacki DeCoster
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (408) 276-5258 Randy Schultz Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (303) 272-8223 DATASOURCE: Sun Microsystems,
Inc. CONTACT: Jacki DeCoster, +1-408-276-5258 or , or Randy
Schultz, +1-303-272-8223 or , both of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Web
site: http://sun.com/
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