Delta invested $1.5 billion dollars in a instant information network which they call it as Delta Nervous System to serve its customers better and save hundreds of millions a dollar a year.
With the current changes in the business trends and strategies in the airline industry Delta hopes to win the competitions with other small players because of its Nervous System, which has helped Delta in realizing $700 million this year in savings.
The Nervous System works like a radio network. Individual stations broadcast changes—a new ticket reservation, a flight delay, a gate change—as they occur. Messaging software supplied by Tibco Software picks up the broadcast and carries it to any station (a local computing system) that is programmed to receive it.
A ticket reservation, for instance, will be broadcast and recorded in Delta's financial systems, its frequent-flier database, and its boarding and flight records, among other places. This way, gate agents, food suppliers, even Delta's chief financial officer know immediately what's going on with any particular Delta flight.
Read the case study: Delta's Last Stand
So, is this a UDP broadcast based messaging systems instead of TCP point to point connections?
Any ideas?
Posted by: anupriyo at May 20, 2003 10:09 PMthey use JMS and non java applications communicate through J2EE Connector Architecture.