Technology Magazine May 2017 | Page 162

TRAVIX INTERNATIONAL

3.5 + million passengers a year

50 + planes filled every day report properly as one company , and that makes a huge difference to our business operations .” Now , the company can track what is happening day-to-day , hour-byhour , whereas previously the team had to wait until the end of each month to gauge its performance . From the perspective of the customer , the changes that the company has undergone means it can roll all of its services out globally with ease , whereas such a thing would not have been possible historically ; Travix would have had to build the

same product several times – one for each country . The time to market is dramatically improved with this new and improved structure .
The challenge of driving systems consolidation does not necessarily have to slow down innovation entirely . During this period McDonald and team were able to add hundreds of new features in parallel , which allowed the business to continue its high growth : “ A couple of things stand out for me – the first was that we embedded a highly powerful new rules engine into our platform , which allowed the business
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