Mercator, the information technology (IT) division of the Emirates Group has implemented Sun Microsystems' next generation server technology – the Sun Fire 15K – to achieve the dual objectives of increasing IT capacity to up to 80 percent while driving down operating costs.
In a sector of razor-thin profit margins, Emirates is one of the few airlines in the world experiencing growth, posting a revenue increase of 11 percent and a passenger increase of 18.3 percent in 2002. In order to support Emirates' stated expansion goal of operating 100 aircraft by 2010, Mercator is partnering with Sun to ensure that the group's IT infrastructure can scale upward to sustain this rapid growth while simultaneously reducing operational costs.
Mercator is migrating core business applications, from its financial software to customer relationship management solutions, from two Sun EnterpriseTM 10000 servers onto the Sun Fire 15K.
Mercator now uses the Sun FireTM 15K server to run multiple applications for the Emirates Group, ranging from its Skywards frequent flyer scheme and flight crew planning to the Oracle E-Business Suite, including Financials, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources Management System (HRMS), and Procurement solutions, as well as data warehousing solutions. Many of Mercator's applications run on the Oracle database, and the seamless integration between Oracle and Sun has measurably eased the migration and data management processes for the IT division. — (menareport.com)
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