ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Microsoft Azure, Easyjet, Ibm 1401

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Bharat Shah

Document Summary

Easyjet"s customers, like those of other airlines, like the idea of being able to select their seats on a given flight when they made their reservations online. However, easyjet"s existing reservation system did not have the capability to add this new feature, which required investing in an additional computer center and modifying its it infrastructure: easyjet"s it department found a better solution. It retained the core reservation system as is and hosted the seat allocation service in the cloud using microsoft"s azure cloud service. Microsoft"s azure cloud enabled easyjet"s information system developers to write their own software program code for seat allocation and use as much or as little processing power as needed to test the service. The right technology at the right price will improve organizational performance: management had to find a low-cost solution that enabled the company to remain competitive. It decided to develop and run the new seat selection service on microsoft"s.