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Travel and Transportation
Helping travel and transportation companies build trust and loyalty through agility and reliability

Leverage industry expertise to exceed today's demands on your T&T enterprise

The travel industry’s recovery is often characterized by uncertainty. Travel spikes and lulls from pent-up demand and everchanging lifestyle shifts render capacity planning challenging. Similarly, transportation companies are profoundly affected by pandemic-driven demand shifts and geopolitical unrest. As a result of this uncertainty, travel companies require technology innovation to outmaneuver today’s evolving travel landscape and to help establish a foundation for their sustained growth.

Competition for a diminished market in key customer segments heightens the need to differentiate. Today’s travel companies must find new ways to create value and revenue streams while also creating a seamless, end-to-end passenger journey and juggling modern sustainability and compliance requirements. In transportation, trends creating a highly challenging market environment include higher aggregate demand coupled with labor shortages and an evolving business model as containerized freight moves further inland.

The pandemic reaffirmed the importance of safety and reliability. Much of the travel industry’s ongoing success depends on restoring customer trust, stimulating demand, and enabling business and operating model elasticity while also conserving capital. Transportation companies must evolve supply chain partner coordination, optimize asset utilization and achieve flexible infrastructure.    

To achieve all of this, Kyndryl helps travel and transportation companies reconcile their new objectives with legacy systems. The evolution they must undertake demands the support of a technology and services partner with the scale, depth, and industry expertise to help them adapt and thrive in the new normal. 

Kyndryl partners with travel providers to achieve key business outcomes

Restore traveler trust and prepare for future threats

Differentiate to enhance competitiveness

Reduce fixed costs and drive operational efficiency

Restore traveler trust and prepare for future threats

The pandemic accelerated the need for contactless travel, eroded years of hard-earned loyalty, and reaffirmed the importance of safety and trust and focus on security and resiliency.

How Kyndryl can help you:
  • Airlines depend on data that is vast and varied, extending from passenger data to operations data to on-aircraft avionics data, each of which demands high levels of security and resiliency.  As an independent integrator with a broad ecosystem of technology partners, Kyndryl helps enterprises to modernize and improve cyber resilience, including embedding cyber resilience into an enterprise’s broader IT and operational strategy, and accounting for cloud and zero trust principles.

  • As travel providers drive greater personalization into experience, they take on new levels of customer data and need to balance the benefits of new tracking capabilities with customer privacy.  Kyndryl has developed Security Operations as a Platform (SOaaP), which helps our customers increase their cyber resilience and leverages data puddles that enable each client to have their own data insights specific to their security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.

  • For travel companies, price optimization is critical to profitability and supporting brand value.  Kyndryl supports its customers to better utilize their data from various legacy systems by making it available for AI-based decisions on pricing and customized offerings.
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
A leading car rental company operating worldwide wanted to stabilize production systems, realize performance gains, and migrate applications to a cloud environment without breaking existing interactions with other on-premises applications. 

How Kyndryl helped
Kyndryl Systems Transformation and Migration Services teams and Amazon Web Services (AWS) collaborated and crafted an architectural design consisting of a hybrid-cloud architecture, a cloud landing zone environment, and a replacement of out-of-date on-premises hardware. The Cloud migration was based on AWS’s Well-Architected Framework that codified migration best practices and was designed for the client’s business requirements.  

Outcomes achieved

  • Minimized operational risk and enabled top line revenue growth through an improved application performance and improved system reliability that was achieved through a fully supported Hybrid-cloud solution.
  • Flawless protection of mission-critical revenue-generating client applications, such as the counter agent booking system, were achieved while safe harboring existing interactions with on-premises applications.
  • Enriched the existing back-up solution and eliminated single point of failure scenarios for production systems.

 

Differentiate to enhance competitiveness

Increased post-pandemic competition further elevates the need to differentiate your enterprise and deliver value through a seamless end-to-end traveler journey while driving new levels of personalization and loyalty.

How Kyndryl can help you:
  • Travel providers want to level up customer experience and drive loyalty while delivering real time content and insights to travelers in transit.  Together with our partners, Kyndryl helps enable unified network services for cloud and data center connectivity and leverages Private 5G and similar emerging network technology so that clients can effectively manage customer interaction and internal processes, including maintenance and repair, at the edge.

  • Travel companies want to help orchestrate their customers’ trips, but this process requires enabling the use of disparate data sources and integrating them across a partner ecosystem. Kyndryl Cloud Services are designed to support our customers’ strategic evolution and our agile co-creation capabilities help customers to generate new ideas and deploy new solutions while enabling new services and offerings. 

  • The travel industry is shifting towards touchless travel. Today’s travel companies are embracing touchless travel and giving their customers the ability to easily manage their services from their mobile devices.  To enable this level of mobile self-service, Kyndryl Vital experts give clients the ability to choreograph the right combination of services and technology and define and shape their signature digital experiences.
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
A major US passenger and cargo airline that operates globally committed to exceeding the sky-high customer expectations of the post-pandemic traveler. This aviation client wanted to rework their passenger experience from the ground up to make their customers’ travel experience frictionless and easy.  The client wanted to embrace cutting-edge capabilities enabled by advanced analytics to eliminate bottlenecks in the customer journey and deliver a vastly simplified customer experience that belies the journey’s underlying technological sophistication. 

How Kyndryl helped
Kyndryl provided a foundation where the client could design their industry-leading vision and where their mission critical systems of engagement would be safe.  We enabled the client’s vision by upgrading them from their fixed infrastructure by offering on-demand capabilities, attuned and real-time responsive to their evolving needs.   

Outcomes achieved through Kyndryl’s Advanced Delivery and Operations

  • Provided operational stability that enabled the advanced delivery capability designed to accelerate passengers through their journey without jeopardizing the reliability of their systems. 
  • Helped implement a new passenger experience that was a material, measurable improvement toward frictionless travel.  
  • Accelerated delivery of information to the airline’s customers with real-time, actionable insights that helped increase intelligent automated management capabilities through Integrated AIOps and Kyndryl Bridge.  
  • Eliminated the cascading effect of data latency, removing system-induced inhibitors to shorten traveler processing time from curbside to cabin.

 

Reduce fixed costs and drive operational efficiency

Travel companies are driving efficiency with data science and lowering fixed costs by realigning to provision key capabilities through their business partners and scaling up and down using consumption-based models.

How Kyndryl can help you:
  • Parts of the travel industry struggle to break away from legacy technology. Modern Wi-Fi and 5G networks help drive day of departure operational efficiency into line maintenance and improve turnaround reliability. Kyndryl provides end-to-end services for critical business applications and their data and enables business insight at scale. Together with our partners, we provide unified network services for edge, cloud, and data center connectivity and help deliver Private 5G and WiFi 6G/6E and similar emerging network technology  increasing integrating into our customers’ IT and OT systems and enabling efficient utilization of real-time and latency sensitive applications at their network edge.

  • Optimizing asset utilization is a priority for travel providers, but many assets are centric to mainframe-based applications while consumption (the traveler) is at the edge.  Kyndryl integrates data siloed across all systems, regardless of format, location, and latency to apply analytics and AI and align asset availability with traveler demand.

  • Travel companies are looking to redesign work with flexible cost models that combine human work with automation-driven processes.   Kyndryl uses AIOps and delivers new levels of IT cost flexibility and helps clients achieve optimized variable costs by leveraging best-in-class patterns through Kyndryl Bridge.
Customer use case
 

Customer challenge
For a global cruise line, their customer systems of engagement are mission critical and the continuous availability of their booking systems, regardless of internal or external events, was essential. The client wanted the ability to handle all guest reservations and transportation, including guests’ pre- and post-hotel stay arrangements, and their air transportation.  

How Kyndryl helped
Kyndryl automated redundant, resource-intensive, and costly disaster recovery processes across multi-vendor on-premises physical and virtual environments onto a secure data center located off-site.  Data protection was enabled by designing recovery workflows to create and manage a backup of the client’s booking system on a replica, upgraded, infrastructure that managed changes in platform configurations and helped deliver peak performance. 

Outcomes achieved

  • Enabled client to increase booking conversion rates by increasing diversity in their booking system with no interruptions of customer access or data.  
  • Reduced operational expenses by increasing infrastructure availability, scalability, and service levels, and reducing and eliminating manual efforts and resource-intensive and costly IT recovery processes.
  • Provided recovery for enterprise applications that span multiple technologies, and helped the client to meet their audit and compliance requirements.   

 

Kyndryl expert spotlight

Kayla Broussard

Chief Technology Officer, Consumer & Travel

 

“Kyndryl serves many of the world’s leading companies in the travel and transportation industry, providing the foundation for their mission critical systems of engagement with cloud-like services that bring an agile operating environment.  These marque clients operate large, complex businesses that are highly focused on safety and security.  This requires a strategic partner committed to delivering the best quality, reliable and stable service that improves their operations and customer experience."

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