Stories about: Cathay Pacific Airways

Financial institution Credit Suisse is embarking on a large scale Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) project to build a more flexible application landscape.

Business intelligence is defined in many different ways. In most cases today, it takes the form of either basic reporting or data analysis via the use of online analytical processing (OLAP) tools. Such tools are essential in gathering a consolidated view of the business, but in some cases they serve only a backward looking role, providing the cause and effect on any given business situation or strategy.

If Scott Carson gets his way, the announcement "We have reached surfing altitude" might soon be as familiar to air travelers as safety demonstrations, packs of peanuts and stowing the tray in the upright and locked position.

Business intelligence (BI) is in the eye of the media, no longer as the industry's new buzz word but as a technology fast attaining maturity. With market consolidation on the rise, the technology is gaining momentum in Asia.

IBM is leveraging on its forte in integration to help players in the airline industry to stay competitive and productive, said Masaharu Kimura, vice-president of Asia Pacific's distribution sector for IBM Japan Ltd Thursday at a media briefing.

High-speed Internet access in the sky could be on of those things that doesn't fit with the new realities facing the airline industry, which has seen a decline in passenger traffic and a sharp drop in revenues since the September 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.

The race to take the Internet to the skies continued at the Paris Air Show this week, with The Boeing Co. and Tenzing Communications Inc. each signing up a new partner at the premier annual show of the aviation industry.

Faltering starts, cost over-runs, negative reactions from suppliers and general uncertainty over business models are grounding many e-marketplace hopefuls. But at Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., the story is much brighter.

The Web Connection, an Internet and electronic commerce consulting firm that was launched in the mid-1990s as one of Hong Kong's first Web design companies, on Thursday took note of a maturing Asian Internet industry and renamed itself Ion Global Ltd.

Virgin Atlantic Airways said today it plans to offer limited Internet and e-mail access onboard flights by the end of the year.

As the US economy shows signs of slowing down, Gartner Group Inc. has cut its world forecast for the growth of B2B (business-to-business) e-commerce revenue over the next four years due to underlying economic factors. However, growth in private exchanges means the research company sees Asia-Pacific staying on target.