“ By combining all the different data, we’re able to get a really good handle on who our customers are and that way we can cater our offerings to them.... ”
— Bryan O'Neil, Director of Data Architecture and Manager, Allegiant Travel
Business Challenge story
Allegiant Air was looking to shift the focus from being primarily an airline to being a travel company. The goal was shifting to not only sell customers airline tickets, but for customers to purchase vacations.
Transformation
Allegiant Air engaged IBM Premier Business Partner ConvergeOne to implement a solution comprising IBM® POWER8® processor-based IBM® Power Systems™ servers, IBM FlashSystem® storage and IBM DB2® software.
Benefits
The ability to analyze data from different sources and quickly gain insight allowed Allegiant Travel to transform from a company arranging airline tickets to one that offers ultimate vacations. By implementing IBM POWER8, DB2 and IBM FlashSystem, Allegiant Air achieved Significant gains in performance, scalability and resiliency coupled with reduced costs: - $1.2M reduction in software licensing costs - 50 percent reduction in backup time - Run times for some reports went down from 6 hours to less than 15 minutes
Solution Category
Solution Components
- IBM Power Systems
- Storage: IBM FlashSystem 840