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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

The last thing any CIO wants is to experience catastrophic operational issues during a peak season, but that’s exactly what executives at Southwest Airlines faced last week. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts. Even before the blizzard hit, Southwest Airlines CEO Bob Jordan acknowledged on Nov.

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IBM and AWS Create a Path to Modernization Via Industry-Specific Solutions

CIO

Modernization journeys are complex and typically highly custom, dependent on an enterprise’s core business challenges and overall competitive goals. Yet one way to simplify transformation and accelerate the process is using an industry-specific approach. Consider the critical area of security controls, for example.

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We We live in a world that is more global than ever before and it is important to experience different cultures, customs, and traditions,” he says. Oman offers a good work culture, lifestyle, and the salary is not taxed,” Pant says. “It

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Achieving Net Zero aviation will need rapid innovation. Digital engineering can deliver it

Capgemini

If one company were to create a breakthrough product, there would likely be a rush from airlines to acquire it. Companies cannot just buy PLM or design software off-the-shelf and slot it into their organisation. Achieving Net Zero aviation will need rapid innovation. And they want to get there fast.

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Bliki: TeamTopologies

Martin Fowler

But for many products there is no single off-the-shelf platform to use, a team is going to have to find and integrate several platforms. But for many products there is no single off-the-shelf platform to use, a team is going to have to find and integrate several platforms. But what makes an effective digital platform?

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

And that episode was not a one-off. In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Except that we are describing real-life situations caused by small failures in the computer system.

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Explore data with ease: Use SQL and Text-to-SQL in Amazon SageMaker Studio JupyterLab notebooks

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Amazon SageMaker Studio provides a fully managed solution for data scientists to interactively build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models. In the process of working on their ML tasks, data scientists typically start their workflow by discovering relevant data sources and connecting to them.