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4 Steps Put Your Company On Consumers' “Favorites” List
You know that personalizing the traveler’s buying experience is necessary to remain a competitive player – and is key to differentiating your business whether you’re a supplier, an agency or a player somewhere in between.
Agile Airline Enterprise
Today’s airline industry is undergoing more transformation than ever before. The combination of ongoing global economic events, “wired” passengers, and growth of lowcost carriers makes this market ever more competitive on price, cost, and yield. As you assess new and emerging trends such as business process outsourcing and utility computing, you should also explore how your airline’s information environment can be designed to make your enterprise more responsive, more flexible, and, above all, more agile.
Agile Airline Enterprise
Today’s airline industry is undergoing more transformation than ever before. The combination of ongoing global economic events, “wired” passengers and growth of low-cost carriers makes this market ever more competitive on price, cost and yield.
Building a Business Case for Service Integration and Management PDF, 226K
As companies tackle the challenges of globalization, greater competition, increased regulatory scrutiny, and introduction of new products and services, they are also grappling with information technology (IT) challenges - rigid, inefficient IT structures that constrain growth and flexibility. The effective IT organization of the future must be able to apply new capability to business problems quickly, scale or contract IT operations rapidly to meet changing demand, and be able to set and monitor consumption practices in real time.
End-To-End Supply Chain Visibility, Security and Effectiveness
With heightened concerns for cargo security and continuing pressures for achieving effective emergency response and profitability, the transport sector has been slow to respond as if in denial of lethal and competitive realities.
Freight Logistics
Although the importance of integrated freight logistics information is well recognized, the sector has been slow in effecting change related to its role in the supply chain. With heightened cargo security and continuing productivity requirements, freight logistics enterprises require an integrated information system to be competitive.
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Information Technology is vital to the Travel & Hospitality Industry as more and more people are traveling again for both business and pleasure. As the recovery continues, Travel & Hospitality companies are facing several key business issues including increased price transparency, commoditization, the demands for self service and raising costs of distribution. Many of these companies are looking to technology to solve these issues.
Impact of IT on Airline Consolidation
In this environment, individual airlines must now consider—and some must soon address— the complex and challenging issues related to migrating reservation and other IT systems from two existing platforms into a single, consolidated infrastructure. In this paper, we describe HP’s unique airline consolidation capabilities. We examine the challenges and operational requirements for a successful airline consolidation, as well as the opportunities it can provide.
Impact of IT on Airline Consolidation
In this paper, we describe HP's unique airline consolidation capabilities. We examine the challenges and operational requirements for a successful airline consolidation, as well as the opportunities it can provide.
Integrated Freight Logistics
Although the importance of integrated freight logistics information is well recognized, the sector has been slow in effecting change related to its role in the supply chain. With heightened cargo security and continuing productivity requirements, freight logistics enterprises require an integrated information system to be competitive. Information drives all the fundamental processes in a freight logistics enterprise. Managing this information and its related systems is the key to success.
Positive Train Control and IT
HP is investigating how rail operators may capitalize upon the mandated requirement of network-wide implementation of Positive Train Control technology - beyond the safety and security aspect - in order to gain competitive advantage in the transportation marketplace.
Route Planning, Tour Generation, Dispatching
Fleet owners can increase efficiency by planning as far into the future as possible. Long-range forecasting will provide transportation capacity where and when it is needed. This forward-looking approach represents an evolution in private fleet business strategies.
Service-Oriented Architecture In the Airline Industry
Responding directly to economic and competitive pressures, companies in the airline industry are working to closely manage costs while at the same time improving operational performance and overall customer service.
Service-Oriented Architecture In the Transportation Industry
Companies in the transportation industry face a number of challenges, from globalization and lower-cost competitors to the need to be more nimble and responsive to market changes. By adopting an enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA), transportation providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize existing software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
SOA in Transportation Industry
Companies in the transportation industry face a number of challenges, from globalization and lower-cost competitors to the need to be more nimble and responsive to market changes. To survive and succeed in this dynamic marketplace, hotels, cruise lines, air services firms, and transport providers must address a range of legacy business and applications issues. By adopting an enterprise-class, service-oriented architecture (SOA), transportation providers can lay the foundation needed to modernize existing software systems and introduce efficient new applications.
Transportation: Logistics Service Providers PDF, 516K
The transportation sector is challenged by globalization, consolidation and the need for faster, more visible and more flexible supply chains. In response, astute providers are now seeking a more agile transportation enterprise.

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