Jetstar extends services contracts

Peter Dinham
Monday, 29 August 2011 00:12

IT Industry - Deals

Low fares airline, Jetstar, has extended professional services contracts with IT project management company, the PM-Partners group.

PM-Partners will continue to provide services to Jetstar for a further two years with the extension of its project management and project management office agreement.

Under the extended agreement, PM-Partners will project manage a number of major programs including the development of a standard services platform across Jetstar Group operations. It will also add electronic project management (EPM) capabilities to the project management office it manages for Jetstar, and the new cloud-based EPM system will implement executive dashboards to support a project portfolio approach.

Jetstar chief information officer, Steve Tame said the initiatives would drive economies of scale as Jetstar 'continued its domestic and international growth within Australia and the Asia Pacific.'

"We are continuing to develop service offerings by re-engineering our platforms and processes to make them consistent and deliver against our low cost approach," Tame said.

Tame said Jetstar would gain greater visibility of projects and a mature basis for prioritising activities and allocating resources. "Major projects delivered for us on time and on budget by PM-Partners over the last two years include solutions for flight operations & crew management, time & attendance, payroll, videoconferencing, as well as overnight relocation of Jetstar's head office in Melbourne and other strategic business simplification projects."