Thursday, March 24, 2005

Airline giant aims for multimillion savings with IT consolidation

Dutch flag carrier airline KLM has consolidated 24 separate business units onto one IBM mainframe in a £2.7m project which, it claimed, would pay for itself within 18 months of completion.

The savings have come by replacing seven AS400 mainframes in different locations onto a pair of IBM zSeries mainframes at Amsterdam’s Schipol airport. This has halved the number of IT staff needed to support the hardware, which runs financial software from SSA Global, an enterprise software supplier.

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