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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/