EUROPE ensure high levels of security , redundancy and uptime . With minimal investment in technology infrastructure , airline companies and travel service providers are able to make use of volume-based expenditure control . The company is currently working with a number of the leading airlines in Europe . According to Stecher , some of these airlines use decades old legacy systems . “ IBS is currently working with these airlines on huge digitalisation projects , because they have been using the same systems for 3 or 4 decades . Sustaining operations through these high maintenance legacy mainframe systems not only becomes difficult for airlines , but also poses an intolerably high level of risk for the business . In effect , we are not only replacing this one system ; we are replacing four others ,” Stecher notes .
Overcoming the heavy cost implications of migrating away from legacy systems begins with looking at a cloud- based approach . The company ’ s new digital platforms are not only cloud native , but are also cloud agnostic . The recently launched iFlight NEO system is an integrated digital platform , which 151
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
Daniel Stecher As Vice President and Head of Global Sales for Airline Operations Daniel is responsible for global sales and business development of the brand new airline operations digital platform “ iFlight NEO ”. He created the OPS 2020 industry event which brings together global airlines and is dedicated to the global Airline Operations and Crew Management Community . He has more than 20 years of experience spanning over the logistics industry and has been traveling more than one and a half million miles , in order to meet with industry experts and customers from the air cargo industry and airline business IT solutions industry .
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