Implementation of Data Center at Heathrow Airport ⚐ Comarch

Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport as Britain’s only hub airport, is home to over 80 airlines, serving 204 destinations in 85 countries.

On average, Heathrow handles over 213,668 passangers daily. It is the busiest airport in Europe and the third busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic. Heathrow has the highest retail sales of any airport in the world ahead of South Korea’s Incheon airport in second place.

78 million
annual passengers
474033
flights
85
countries
204
destinations

Business Objective

Heathrow airport contracted in 2012 and the implementation in 2013 has been a well-documented success. High quality services and optimal pricing enabled Heathrow to choose Comarch as the provider of its business application and equipment platform.

Implementation

The successful implementation of a highly-efficient business application Comarch Loyalty Management for Airports for an international customer in the Comarch Data Center environment is the high level proof of Comarch specialists’ competence in operating data center systems, as well as the reliability of the infrastructure. The Comarch platform implemented on the basis of Comarch Loyalty Management for Airports consists of four flexible integrated modules:

Business Administration - an application for back office users to configure rules, rewards, redemption parameters, and a set of reports
Contact Center Application – an application used by Customer Service Agents to serve customer requests
Web Portal – an application dedicated for Heathrow Rewards members to manage their accounts and activities
Meeting Heathrow’s requirements regarding delivery of comprehensive services such as Member Helpdesk Service, Member Website Service, Service Level Maintenance, Front-end integration, Comarch sub contracts two consortium partners:
- UK based Partner for the front end integration with merchants’ POS systems
- European Leader for a comprehensive Outsourcing Contact Center services

More About The Implemented Product

Comarch Data Center

Modern data processing and storage facilities used as an alternative for companies to expanding their IT infrastructure resources.

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Hosting Project Meets Heathrow Needs

Hosting project for Heathrow Airport ensures the service of hardware platform for Comarch Loyalty Management in the Software as a Service model. System assumes cloud model sharing hardware resources and 3rd party licenses. Scope of PaaS services include:

Platform administration (including Linux and databases – Oracle and PostgreSQL)
Monitoring and helpdesk
Spare Data Center site (Disaster Recovery Center) with asynchronous data replication
Managing hardware lifecycle (including migration and upgrades)
Online backup services
High availability cluster services

Main Goals Schieved Include

The Comarch Data Center consists of three sets of 2 data processing centers localized in two different cities for geo-redundancy. This enabled Comarch to meet the client‘s requirements: high availability, reliability, scalability and security
Benefits of using cloud environment (flexibility, time-to-market, low cost)
The extensive experience and stability of Comarch, which has been active on the Polish and global market for many years, guaranteed the highest standard of the provided services

Flexibility in case OF BUSINESS GROWTH
ONE CENTRAL POINT OF CONTACT FOR CLIENT including application and hosting support
Provider responsibility for complex solution including availability, SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE
COSTS OPTIMIZATION for the best TCO
Platform maintained by experienced TECHNICAL STAFF