Versant Object Database
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Versant Object Database
- SabreSonic Inventory System
Tech Stack
- Object Oriented Design
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Functions
- Sales & Marketing
Use Cases
- Inventory Management
Services
- System Integration
About The Customer
Sabre Holdings is a world leader in the travel marketplace. The company merchandises and retails travel products and provides distribution and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel agents, corporations, and travel suppliers around the world through its four companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network, Sabre Airline Solutions, Sabre Hospitality Solutions. The company was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites.
The Challenge
Sabre Holdings, a world leader in the travel marketplace, was looking for an open system solution to provide real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites. The challenge was processing Origination and Destination, also known as Airline Inventory, which requires massive transactional throughput. Relational technology was not a good fit for this task. Sabre was looking to migrate from an expensive and proprietary IBM Mainframe System, TPF, to an open system solution using an object-oriented design approach to run its SabreSonic Inventory System.
The Solution
The solution to Sabre's challenge was the Versant Object Database. This database offered extreme performance and extreme complexity capabilities that directly addressed the database requirements of Sabre’s increasingly complex and evolving data sets. The Versant-based system was implemented to run Sabre's SabreSonic Inventory System, which provides real-time inventory for travelocity.com and several other websites.
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