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Modernizing Legacy Systems to Cloud for a Leading GDS and Aviation Product Provider

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Overview.

The largest GDS product and services provider is a technology company expert in several industry verticals.

Challenge.

Our client, a leading Global Distribution Systems (GDS) product and services provider, was facing significant challenges with their current systems as they were expensive to operate and a barrier to adapting, innovating, and remaining competitive. The client embarked on a journey to modernize and re-engineer their legacy mainframe systems. With a new Next Generation Platform (NGP), they aimed to develop innovative solutions to operate more efficiently, streamline the onboarding of new customers, deliver changes swiftly, and improve operational and cost efficiencies.

Solution.

The project involved transforming the legacy architecture into a cloud-based system of APIs and Microservices, ensuring optimal Resiliency, Availability, and Consistency (RAC).

As the client’s preferred and largest development partner, Coforge enabled end-to-end re-engineering of their complex mainframe products to Next Gen Digital products. This encompassed reverse engineering, design, development, program management, and customer migration covering 10+ products and domains across Reservations, Schedule Change, Teletype, Payments, and Commercials.

Coforge is currently managing the program with 500+ staff working in a distributed agile environment across 10+ products in collaboration with multiple vendors and Google Cloud architect

The following services were provided to the client to modernize its legacy systems:

  • Responsible for end-to-end delivery of identified domain areas like reverse engineering, design as per the overall client's business architecture, microservices development, program management, and customer migration. 
  • Online learning platform for inductions and onboarding
  • Requirement Documentation by reverse engineering for backlog creation
  • Development using distributed Agile aligned with the client’s processes 
  • Quality Engineering with Continuous Automation Approach
  • Distributed scrum team aligned with the client's GDCs
  • GCP Aligned Application Development and Data Migration
  • Customer migration to the new-gen platform
  • Product Areas: Reservations, Schedule Change, Teletype, Payments, Commercials

The Impact.

  • Ready Next Gen technology for 10+products.
  • Zero disruption for travel agents in switching to the next-gen platform.
  • Open Service Environment to eliminate cost, provide competitive advantage, and flexibility for integration.
  • Consistent delivery with >95% adherence to program metrics.
  • 100% M0 & 92% M1 metrics performance score as per Rally
  • Delivering operational agility and scalability

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