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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

The solutions, some in pilot stage and others in early development, transcend a variety of core industries, including manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, and transportation. Modernization journeys are complex and typically highly custom, dependent on an enterprise’s core business challenges and overall competitive goals.

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B2B Travel Platform For Corporate Travel Management

Altexsoft

With airlines such as United and American shifting content away from legacy Global Distribution System (GDS) channels towards their own platforms and NDC-enabled channels, businesses relying on traditional GDS systems face a challenge. Corporate travel management comes with its unique set of needs and challenges. Legacy GDS limitations.

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Streaming Analytics in the Real World

Cloudera

Marr’s keynote developed the idea that the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the“Intelligence Revolution,” as companies can use data to personalize and improve business processes. The data shelf life is decreasing,” said Marr. And Cloudera is at the heart of enabling these real-time data driven transformations. .

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Expat CIOs: IT leaders broaden horizons with global experiences

CIO

Brian Ferris, chief data, analytics, and technology officer, Loyalty NZ Brian Ferris / Loyalty NZ Assumptions about technology development being at the same level in different countries, for example, often prove wrong. When Richard Ventre got an opportunity to move to India from the Netherlands, he latched on to it. “We

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

Altexsoft

For the record, the business developed into a global company operating its airline and dealing with multi-million revenue streams, went through a compulsory liquidation in 2019, and was relaunched as an online-only travel agency in 2020. Thomas Cook, an iconic travel company from the UK, is believed to be the first tour operator.

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How to Choose a Data Science and AI Consulting Company

Altexsoft

Innovata, which was incorporated by the FlightGlobal news and information site, is a leading provider of historical, current, and future schedule data for more than 900 airlines worldwide. An expert talking about the capabilities of predictive analytics for business on a morning TV show is far from unusual. Price prediction engines (e.g.

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