POWER OF PARTNERSHIPS
PRICELINE
Martin Brodbeck , Chief Technology
Officer , Priceline comments on the importance of a best-in-class ecosystem and highlights the importance of three key partners .
that are much more geared towards customer architecture and that can provide real-time analytics on how our products are performing . We ' re able to automatically scale our website based on traffic patterns and these have been key enablers for us to be able to scale the company in the last year .”
Customer-centric approach Priceline has always put the customer at the heart of their operations , and two decades after Captain Kirk beamed the company into the stratosphere with their online presence , Brodbeck is using intuitive technology to keep life simple for their clients when it comes to payments .
“ To ensure the simplicity of our website , we do extensive user experience testing to ensure our customers are getting the best possible experience . Priceline prides itself on being a company that continuously likes to innovate from a user experience perspective . We capitalise on that innovation
Google Google is providing us with the next generation cloud infrastructure that is really going to help us scale and grow our business . They have been a key partner and helped us create a fantastic user experience for our online travel platform all over the world . We have Google regions running in Singapore , London and North America , and we ' ll be standing up one on the west coast . Having the right cloud infrastructure to power our products has been critical .
EPAM Systems EPAM Systems has been an important infrastructure partner for us through our cloud journey . They provide us great talent and capabilities for us to move a lot of our mission critical applications and workloads from a traditional data centre architecture to one that rides on Google ' s Kubernetes platform . They have fantastic capabilities and insights on how to modernise a traditional data centre architecture .
DataStax DataStax has been an amazing partner for us in providing next generation capabilities that power our data infrastructure from a real-time perspective . We ' ve been using the DataStax products for several years now and are moving to their Astro cloud platform , which will give us a competitive capability for our hotels and rental car products .
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