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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Each Hangar houses agile coaches, business analysts, data and analytics specialists, product owners, Scrum masters, software engineers, and user interface designers — all with one mission: to elevate the airlines’ digital customer experience before, during, and after the flight. Experience is not only the cherry on the cake.”

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Brex Brex opted not to accept commissions from airlines or hotels that would not provide more expensive flights or hotels as alternatives, Dubugras said. The company says it is currently using the generative AI technology to write, test, and fix code with the aim of increasing its operational efficiency and reducing overhead.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

Many organizations have been struggling to understand not only the cost of downtime, but how to quantify the quality of their software and what the cost is of poor quality code. A new report from the Consortium for IT Software Quality ( 1 ) covers the cost of poor software quality, shedding light on those topics. ??

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Should A CIO Choose?

The Accidental Successful CIO

Which software development methodology is best? As a CIO I suspect that you are well aware that there are a number of different ways that your IT teams can go about developing software (and doing a lot of other things). It all begins with the waterfall approach to developing software. Later in the process testing is performed.

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Email Marketing Software in the Travel Industry: Benefits, Challenges, and Success Stories

Altexsoft

This was largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic uprooting the status quo for both international and domestic travel. This article will explain how email marketing software manages to produce winning campaigns for travel enterprises. What Email Marketing Software Does. The Challenges of Marketing to Travelers. Personalization.

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Finding and Fixing Five Kinds of Architectural Technical Debt

Dzone - DevOps

For better or worse, it’s a nagging problem that too often gets kicked down the road until it’s too late and application development slows down, new features slip, test cycles increase, and costs ramp up. Technical debt takes on various forms from source code smells to security risks to the more serious issue of architectural technical debt.