Air Canada Selects Persistence Software to Automate Aircraft Maintenance; PowerTier Enables the Design of a System Aimed at Decreasing Aircraft Downtime and Increasing Revenue.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999-- Persistence Software, Inc., a leading vendor of transactional application servers, announced today that Air Canada has purchased PowerTier for EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. as a key component of an innovative system for automating aircraft maintenance. The Air Canada Integrated Diagnostic System (IDS) will allow Line Maintenance Technicians to make accurate, time-critical decisions concerning aircraft maintenance in near-real-time, and enable the Maintenance Control Center to monitor their aircraft fleet for faults. The system is expected to lead to a decrease in costly aircraft downtime and an increase in revenue. IDS is slated for limited beta release See beta version. in Q4 1999, with full deployment in 2000. "PowerTier is enabling us to design an integrated diagnostic tool to analyze aircraft maintenance information, identify potential problems, and advise on a consistent and expedient course of action," said Dave Clarke For the Canadian politician, see . Dave Clarke (born 19 September 1968 in Brighton[1]) is an English Techno Producer and DJ, often given the status The Baron of Techno. , Decision Support Specialist, Air Canada. "We expect IDS to reduce the amount of time that aircraft are grounded, enabling us to significantly decrease our costs and improve passenger satisfaction." PowerTier will be used to develop a server application that integrates near-real-time mainframe operational data, an operational data store, thin Java client applications, and artificial intelligence decision support components. The IDS software, which incorporates artificial intelligence technologies, was developed by the National Research Council of Canada The National Research Council Canada (NRC) is Canada's leading organization for scientific research and development. History NRC was established in 1916, mainly to advise the government. Then, in the early 1930s, laboratories were built in Ottawa. in close cooperation with the airline. "It is absolutely essential for a system like IDS to have a scalable, reliable application server," said Mark Douglas Mark William Douglas (b. 20 October, 1968 in Nelson, New Zealand) is an international cricketer. He played six one-day internationals and no Tests for New Zealand. He also played for Nelson in the Hawke Cup. , CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of Persistence Software. "PowerTier is the ideal solution for a system that requires high-performance and high-availability for the management and delivery of time-sensitive data." About Air Canada Air Canada offers travelers more than 1,350 flights per week on 75 routes to 44 destinations -- representing more daily non-stop service between Canada and the U.S. than any other carrier or alliance of carriers. Air Canada also offers the most daily non-stop flights from eastern Canada Eastern Canada (also the Eastern provinces) is the region of Canada generally considered to be east of Manitoba, consisting of the following provinces:
OAG Office of the Auditor General (of Canada) OAG Official Airline Guide OAG Open-Angle Glaucoma OAG Open Application Group OAG Operational Advisory Group Airline of the Year Awards including Best North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Domestic Airline. About Persistence Software Persistence Software designs and develops transactional application servers, providing the foundation for distributed business processing. The Persistence PowerTier family includes PowerTier for Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and PowerTier for C++. PowerTier reduces development time with container-managed persistent objects and optimizes performance with shared transactional caching. Persistence couples standards-based products with technology transition services to assist customers in building data-intensive, distributed applications. Persistence products are in use today in over 30 of the Fortune 100 and at more than 200 Global 1000 companies. Persistence was founded in 1991 in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. and has its European headquarters in London. The company is privately held. For more information see http://www.persistence.com. (c) 1999 Persistence Software Inc. Persistence is a registered trademark and PowerTier is a trademark of Persistence Software Inc. in the United States and other countries. Java and Enterprise JavaBeans are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems in the United States and other countries. All other product, trademark, company, or service names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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