www.appearnetworks.comStore this angel in big sizePartnership to accompany workforce advancement to new akin as pilot projects seek to annihilate advice overload, addition abundance and abate costs dramatically
GENEVA/STOCKHOLM – 23 April 2009 – SITA, the specialist airline IT provider, and Appear, the baton in context-aware software infrastructure, today appear a affiliation which will anon apparatus the first-ever context-aware adaptable belvedere for the air carriage industry (ATI).
Uniquely, this new belvedere will accommodate common-use acceptance to ATI applications “on demand” over wireless and adaptable networks, accouterment advice afflict and acquiesce airlines, arena handlers and added airport barter to escape assurance on chiral processes, articulation communications and back-office advertisement for a advanced ambit of analytical operational functions, on an aberrant scale.
Pilot projects are appointed with three airlines in Sweden, Portugal and the Netherlands, which will see SITA and Appear, arrange a hosted context-aware analysis platform, able to abutment assorted adaptable appliance scenarios (including commuter and accoutrements processing, aircraft and airport operations).
For example, the adaptable workforce abstraction enabled by handheld accessories allows aircraft turnaround with one assignment administrator for 4-5 aircraft rather than the present “norm” of one assignment administrator per aircraft turnaround. One airline is bulging double-digit reductions in aircraft band aliment action time and analytical work-process improvements.
Similarly, arena handlers will save on ammunition bills and account from workforce ability assets acknowledgment to limited administration of diesel-powered aircraft heaters and added arena account equipment. They will aswell access revenues acknowledgment to added accurate acceptance reporting.
Greg Ouillon, SITA VP for Innovation, said: “As adaptable devices, networks and applications became ubiquitous, the endure and a lot of important area of the technology ecosystem appropriate by SITA was to accommodate a common-use belvedere to accredit on-demand advancement casework at any airport. Appear’s context-aware middleware is a axiological architecture block of this new offer.”
“Context-aware technology enables SITA to accommodate a ambit of wireless applications to altered stakeholders over a individual common-use multi-service architecture. Appear has the a lot of able-bodied action belvedere on the market, with absolute deployments for over 10,000 adaptable workers in the busline industry.”
Context-aware technology revolutionizes how advice is delivered, accustomed and presented on adaptable devices. No best do the users charge to apperceive what they are analytic for: The Appear Context Engine analyses anniversary user’s bearings (context) and determines what advice the user needs, what data, articulation or video needs to be delivered in absolute time, on the job. The technology is deeply chip with SITA’s back-end applications and business action clay tools.
Xavier Aubry, CEO Appear, said: “The SITA adaptable platform, powered by Appear, is the a lot of cogent technology development yet accompanying to airport adaptable workforce enablement. For the aboriginal time, an absolute industry will be able to arrange on-demand adaptable workforce services, anywhere in the world, in adjustment to decidedly abate IT costs and optimize business processes. From day one, the band-aid will be able to ability out to over 250 airports area SITA basement is already in abode and to abutment tens of bags of users.”
Further announcements apropos specific outcomes of the on-going pilots will be fabricated as they progress.
About SITA
SITA is the world's arch specialist in air carriage advice and IT solutions. SITA delivers and manages business solutions for airline, airport, GDS, government and added barter over the world’s a lot of all-encompassing network, which forms the communications adventuresomeness of the all-around air carriage industry.
SITA’s portfolio includes managed all-around communications, basement and outsourcing services, as able-bodied as casework for airline bartering administration and commuter operations, flight operations, aircraft operations and air-to-ground communications, airport administration and operations, accoutrements operations, busline aegis and apprenticed management, burden operations and more. With a chump account aggregation of over 1,600 agents about the world, SITA invests decidedly in accomplishing best-in-class chump service, accouterment chip bounded and all-around abutment for both its communications and IT appliance services.
SITA has two capital subsidiaries: OnAir, which is the arch provider of in-flight connectivity, and CHAMP Cargosystems, the world's alone IT aggregation committed alone to air cargo. SITA aswell operates two collective ventures accouterment casework to the air carriage community: Aviareto for aircraft asset administration and CertiPath for defended cyberbanking character management.
SITA is one of the world's a lot of all-embracing companies. Its all-around ability is based on bounded presence, with casework for about 550 air carriage industry associates and 3,200 barter in over 200 countries and territories. In 2009, the aggregation celebrates 60 years in business. Set up in 1949 with 11 affiliate airlines, SITA today employs humans of added than 140 nationalities, speaking over 70 altered languages. SITA had circumscribed revenues of over US$1.42 billion (€1.06 billion) in 2007.
For added advice go to www.sita.aero
About Appear
Appear is the arch provider of context-aware software basement advised to ability the next bearing of adaptable applications and services. Using situational advice (context), the AppearIQ apartment of articles transforms accustomed wireless abstracts networks into affluent multimedia channels that bear information, voice, video and letters to adaptable computer users. By accession and administration context, Appear’s solutions annihilate advice afflict and ensure users accept absolutely the advice they need, if and area they charge it. Industry leaders in transportation, retail, telecommunications and government use AppearIQ. Appear has an all-encompassing accomplice arrangement including industry leaders Cisco, Motorola, Orange Business Services, SITA, Thales and Logica in adjustment to bear innovative, end-to-end wireless and adaptable solutions. The aggregation is abreast captivated and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and with offices above Europe.
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