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IT services provider Unisys Australia has signed a multi-million dollar contract with Cathay Pacific Airways to host the airline’s core business applications.
The contract is for three years, with an option to extend for another
two. Unisys will move Cathay’s reservations, departure control, and
cargo platforms to the Unisys data centre in Rhodes, west of Sydney.
“Cathay chose Unisys because of its technical expertise, its deep
experience of the airline industry, its competitive pricing and a
low-risk migration plan for moving our systems,” said Anthony Yeung,
general manager, Information Management, Cathay Pacific. “We needed to
be assured of high availability for these critical systems as well as
having sufficient flexibility to cater for growth and fluctuations in
demand.”
The contract encompasses Unisys hosting of the airline’s passenger
reservations, departure control and cargo management systems. Unisys
has been providing these services as a sub-contractor for nine years,
and the new contract includes new services added to the scope. These
include the management of middleware applications and the migration
from legacy communications handlers to a Unisys Online Message
Switching Engine. Cathay runs the Unisys USAS airline application
software and a related contract covers extensions to these USAS
licenses.
“Cathay has used Unisys reservations, departure control and cargo
applications for more than two decades and during that time we have
demonstrated a commitment and expertise in supporting the airline’s IT
applications,” said Andrew Barkla, vice president, Unisys Asia-Pacific.
“Organisations need to strike a balance between security as defence and
protection, and security as confidence and trust. Unisys is in the
business of providing solutions that allow customers to run their
operations securely in all key aspects – secure in the technology
sense, secure in knowing that their service provider understands their
business, and secure in the belief that their business will run
effectively every day.”
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