"We saved a lot of workers in development and maintenance, and reduce technical types, which will undoubtedly reduce the cost of hardware and software." -Power Vice President Bill Green Saturn R / T® Reservation Systems
Introduction: Saturn R / T® Reservation Systems Inc. is the main supplier of computerized land-on-site transportation reservation system. It works with system integrators Power® to develop business inter-business inter-book travel service interfaces for the travel transportation industry. This interface is running Sybase PowerBuilder® with Javatm code deployed on Sybase Easerver. When you design the interface, Saturn and Power® have selected Sybase PowerDesigner® instead of Rational Rose.
Business Requirements: In order to connect travel companies and buses companies to major travel service bookings, such as SABRE and Apollo, Saturn requires a low-cost, adaptive real-time interface. Through such a real-time interface, a reliable trail book confirmation number can be obtained and the possibility of manual writing errors is avoided, making the reservation of their landing traffic services in the traveler's stroke plan. In addition, Saturn also requires the solution to meet the needs of its web services and future EBXML requirements.
Application area: Tourism
Business Solution: By installing a centralized Sybase Easerver computer in the Saturn data center, you can handle services from travel agencies, corporate customers and future web travel portals. Saturn R / T® builds using Sybase PowerBuilder and Java code. Communicate with the site of travel transport company through real-time interface. The interface is running a server communication module developed with Sybase PowerBuilder, which is responsible for providing communication between the real-time interface and the back-end business system of the travel service company. The entire system is designed with Sybase Powerbuilder.
Architecture: SATURN R / T® uses Windows NT® and Windows 2000 Server computers, run Sybase Easerver.
Products: Sybase PowerDesigner 8.0 and 9.0 Beta, Sybase EaserVer 3.6.1c2, Sybase
Powerbuilder 8.0, Java, and Sybase Adaptive Server 12.0.
Advantages: Sybase PowerBuilder accelerates the development cycle of the Saturn R / T® interface with its open, highly integrated and functional development environment. Sybase Easerver provides a server solution running on a low-cost Windows server computer. Since Sybase is supplied as a unique tool, Saturn avoids the tool change overhead to perform different tasks.
Saturn reduces their handling costs, each order costs from the original $ 0.40, and there are many new customers in less than 9 months. Overall, their total cost of ownership (TCO) fell by 75%, while the asset return rate (ROA) increased by 500%.
Through this IT investment, Saturn extends its travel booking service system to the online booking area, while the competitor has created a new problem for its competitors.
As a Saturn's customer, the benefits of land transportation services companies are that they can reach the tentacles to the global booking service company with accurate and timely information services, and also reduce the time and costs required to procecalize the reservation service. Saturn drives the automation service process of the travel industry with Easerver and PowerDesigner
On-site transportation is an important part of the output value of billions of dollars in tourism. During booking, travel agencies need to confirm whether there is available land transportation services and their prices. Saturn RESERVATION SYSTEMS became sybase's customers in 1993, which developed Saturn R / T® products realized real-time docking between business agencies. This product is currently using business between travel agency and transportation services such as Sabre, Appollo, and Worldspan.
Saturn R / T® is an interface that is securely published in Web services, which has a bridge between service providers and service needs. Saturn R / T® uses Java programs and Sybase PowerBuilder programs deployed on the Easerver machine.
PAUL Murray, Vice President of Saturn, said, "Since our application server is basically developed, we can put the other half of the real-time interface in any customer location." Saturn Install Sybase EaserVer 3.61 on Windows NT® and Windows 2000 Server machines and delivers them to major transportation services. These Easerver computers are responsible for exchange information with backend business systems of the above-mentioned service companies. There is a central Easerver that connects all machines at the Saturn site. The SATURN server is responsible for switching the booking information with the main computerization booking service company. The business system can return to the subscription information within a time less than 4 seconds during processing the subscription request.
Saturn R / T® origin
In order to verify the latest travel transport prices and whether there is a transportation service available, Saturn needs a real-time interface to connect travel agencies and travel transportation companies. The real-time interface is also the only way to provide a reliable train booking confirmation number (which is a tricky problem in the past to Saturn). When it comes to past solutions, PAUL MURRAY, Vice President Saturn, said, "Before, we will provide the traffic service company to provide the number of confirmation numbers, while traveling society accepts these predetermined trains. This will lead to many problems. When people call When you ask the booked train, the Travel Agency Agent said, 'This is not our scheduled confirm number'. Of course, they can query the predetermined trains in the background office system, but a front line personnel receive such use training. " This issue solves this problem with the real-time interface connected to the back office system of the transportation service company.
To establish a real-time interface, Saturn pays attention to the system integrator Power®. Saturn's Paul Murray said: "We use Power's technical services to create some PowerBuilder and Java parts that polls our database, while maintaining our security sockets between us and travel traffic services companies."
William Green, Vice President, is responsible for procurement, said: "For the user, an object-oriented modeling tool will be with the highest cost-effective, it can provide the above-oriented and data model modeling capabilities. And generate a model report, which is another very useful function outside modeling tool. " This report can be used to plan future integrated technology blueprints.
Wash Rational Rose, choose Sybase PowerDesigner
When choosing a powerful modeling tool, the scope will soon zoom out to Sybase PowerDesigner and Rational Rose. Sybase PowerDesigner has become of course the election with the modeling and advanced reporting capabilities provided by a fully integrated environment.
Sybase PowerDesigner provides developers with object-oriented design and abundant data model features in a set. When writing the Sybase PowerDesigner program, you can go deep into a set of complete key UML charts provided by PowerDesigner. "Rose's data model modeling capacity cannot be compared to PowerDesigner, so we also need to add additional tools."
-Bill Green
Power developers have used Rational Rose in previous projects. For this Saturn real-time project, Rational Rose does not meet technical requirements.
"I used to report the reporting ability of Rational Rose, as far as I want to view, I found that they always have a lack of efficiency."
-Bill Green
The ability of Sybase PowerDesinger generated report has been deeply impressed by Bill. "PowerDesigner's model report is so strong, so that I can customize the report I want in a short period of time."
Sybase PowerDesigner provides an integrated development environment. Since PowerDesigner's modeling function is built around the same version library (Repository), developers are always working in the same tool environment. They don't need to be busy to convert modeling tools and import export information. Bill commented that "customers are also happy to use PowerDesigner as a step-by-step design tool to model data modeling and object modeling. Of course, PowerDesigner can generate and reverse engineering PowerBuilder code is another advantage. To achieve The same features, Rational Rose also requires third-party extensions.
Deploy Easerver
Saturn has successfully used Sybase Easerver for other products. Install the Easerver computer at the service provider's site to support the Saturn R / T® interface is a very easy job. Currently, Saturn uses Sybase Easerver to exchange information with server, including a wide range of reservations from small backend office systems to $ billions of dollars like Sabre.
Simplify the integration of service providers
To enable transportation service providers to use B2B services, Saturn needs a simple way to integrate providers's backend office systems. Saturn's Paul Murray said, "There is not enough technical force we have in contact with the service provider to support the security socket and two-way communication in the short term."
With Sybase Powerbuilder and Java, Power has developed a server communication module to simplify integration. If a major travel booking service company, such as Sabre, a booking request is sent to the Central Saturn server, then the next process may be the case: if the destination service provider is marked as a real-time system, the server is The communication module will first connect to the Easerver located in the transport service provider site via TCP / IP, SSL or IIOP protocol, and then write the booking request to the SQL Anywhere database of the local server and notify the supplier's backend office system. The backend office system simply reads information from the database, then plug in in the same database.
Murray said, "The project we pick up is a few months. It may be longer for some companies, and their products are only read from the database from the database with ODBC or JDBC.
Saturn recently participated in a national transportation exhibition, all backend office system suppliers came to sell their products. SATURN 趁 This opportunity distributes its real-time interface products to these backend office system developers, and hopes that they can integrate the product into their back-end office systems. Murray claims that "we don't want to compete with those developers. We just provide them with an additional module that can be sold. For them, after the real-time interface, their backend office system will be more easily sold. They You can tell the visual customers, Sabre Travel Agency, and other automatic booking engine users quickly become the order entry of the transportation service company. "PowerDesigner synchronization features
Saturn relies on Sybase PowerDesigner to maintain the data model of all its applications. All changes to the database are done through the PowerDesigner model.
The SATURN R / T® development work can keep the application with the model and the model and the database, to be attributed to Sybase PowerDesigner. Power's Green Review, "Powerbuilder and Java parts are one of the goals of our development work, not just another empty talk in the same industry. Recently, we have to join Visual Basic, the work is still Will be done using PowerDesinger. "
Create a technical blueprint
In order to guide Saturn's future development, Bill Green's development team created an enterprise technology blueprint using Sybase PowerDesigner. "We don't have much energy to train customers to use and understand the object model, so we need something to explain the infrastructure."
Once you have delivered Saturn R / T®, Power creates the service processing model of the product using Sybase PowerDesigner 9.0's business processing modeling. Green said, "We returned to the establishment of the business processing model of the entire application. The completion of this work makes Saturn to truly understand their entire business process. After the customer sees some processes, the original handling method very bad."
System integrator's splendid prospect
In the system integration industry, the best ruler that measures customer satisfaction is whether it will win subsequent tasks. Power's work team is also given a new task, and they are integrated with another traffic service, and then expand the entire system.
"The customer is very satisfied with the results. As integrators, we don't have to support a variety of technologies to achieve a variety of products that can be achieved with other suppliers, we are very excited." -Bill Green
Power has selected the development efficiency after using the Sybase Easerver, Sybase PowerBuilder code and Sybase PowerDesigner. "We saved a lot of work in development and maintenance, and reduce technical types, which will undoubtedly reduce the cost of hardware and software."
"I am very wondering: Why do some companies don't care about the use of PowerDesigner as their modeling environment." -Bill Green
Future development of Saturn R / T®
Saturn has added an application extension that will include XML messages and inter-server communication networks. When the market coverage of the product is further expanded, users who use any web-based subscription service engine will be able to book and change the land transportation. XML also supports consumer shopping features.
Online travel is the initial and last paragraph of any travel. If you think that travel is not a relaxed thing, Saturn RESERVATION SYSTEMS will be committed to eliminating your troubles that you may encounter at the beginning and end of the Sybase integration product. When talking about how Saturn R / T® supports travel agencies, Paul Murray commented, "We currently provide end-to-end full solution for this branch of tourism. It can be implemented quickly, accurate and easy to achieve, by This can get better services and reduce the workload of all parties staff. "IT managers always think about the issue of self-development or purchase. For Saturn, this choice is simple, and they invest in the customer's system, gain their own competitive advantage. SATURN R / T® extends its travel booking service system to an online booking area while manufacturing new problems for its competitors at prices.
The success of evaluation technology decisions is a difficult job. But for Saturn, this result is obvious: the transaction cost is reduced, the number of customers has increased and has the ability to rapidly add new functions. Since the correct tool is selected, Saturn reduces TCO by 75%, while the increased asset returns are as high as 500%. These data illustrate everything.
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