DXC Technology Enables Copa Airlines’ Transformation by Modernizing and Migrating Passenger Service System with Cloud Right™ Approach
December 08 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
DXC transforms the legacy Passenger Service System (PSS), making
Copa one of the world’s leading full-service airlines to operate a
PSS entirely in the public cloud.
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) today announced a multiyear
renewal with Copa Airlines, a leading Latin American airline
carrier, to modernize the mainframe-based Passenger Service System
(PSS) and migrate it entirely to the public cloud, without business
disruption. DXC, in collaboration with its strategic partner
Microsoft, and Copa, will lead the transformative initiative.
This new agreement will accelerate Copa’s digital transformation
by providing a flexible, scalable and open airline core IT
platform. The modern platform will fully support integration of
third-party applications in Copa’s IT ecosystem, and will enable
the airline to improve customer and staff experience.
DXC will apply its Cloud Right™ approach to help Copa rapidly
maximize the benefits and value of cloud modernization. With Cloud
Right, DXC helps customers maximize the value from cloud and IT
modernization, optimizing and managing existing investments and
ensuring the best use of on-premises, private and public cloud
environments to achieve business objectives.
“We are delighted to be awarded another large-scale cloud
transformation,” said Jim Brady, president, Americas, DXC
Technology. “Our expertise at developing a specific IP toolkit will
allow us to help Copa transform at a very high rate of speed and
with precision accuracy, making the automated conversion rate of
migration nearly 99.5 percent.”
With extensive experience in the travel industry and a deep
understanding of Copa’s entire IT estate, DXC is transforming all
passenger service applications running on the existing mainframe
and on-premise environment to the public cloud. DXC selected
Microsoft Azure for its strength and experience in mainframe
migrations.
“We have already integrated our services and data layers to the
DXC PSS platform, and used it to also integrate our own digital
experience as well as third-party components that power our
flexible shopping, merchandising and New Distribution Capability
(NDC),” said Julio Toro Silva, chief information officer at Copa
Airlines. “Now, moving the PSS to the Microsoft Azure cloud will
result in a huge increase in integration scalability at a reduced
cost. It will also provide us with the flexibility of cloud
development tools and practices to enable the modularization and
continuous modernization of the PSS components.”
“There have been other mainframe applications migration projects
over the years, but Microsoft and DXC are innovating on taking a
high-performance airline application and moving it directly to the
public cloud in a wholesale fashion,” said Daniel Verswyvel,
General Manager Microsoft Central America. “This expertise will
benefit the airline industry as well as several others.”
Learn more about DXC’s Cloud and Applications services.
About DXC Technology
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their
mission critical systems and operations while modernizing IT,
optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and
scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world’s
largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to
deploy services across the Enterprise Technology Stack to drive new
levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience.
Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and
colleagues at DXC.com.
About Copa Airlines
Copa Airlines, a subsidiary of Copa Holdings (NYSE: CPA), is a
leading Latin American provider of airline passenger and cargo
services. It serves North, Central, and South America and the
Caribbean from its Hub of the Americas in Panama City, Panama. Copa
has received extensive international recognition for its
outstanding service and punctuality from FlightStats and OAG, and
FlightGlobal awarded Copa Airlines with the “Decade of Airline
Excellence Award 2020” for the Latin American region.
About Microsoft
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT, @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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