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Success Story

Airplus AND BOI

20 years of success and confidence.
SUMMARY

After a short trial period, the JAVA APPLICATION ENGINE is in productive use at AirPlus since autumn 2014.
“Our request, the authorization check of users, was easily implemented.
The complete logging and documentation of business processes is very
important at AirPlus International to reconstruct changes.“, emphasizes
Mrs. Rendón-Valencia. “And it’s equally important that data checks
defined in TABEX4 Table Manager can be used in our decentralized web
applications and do not need to be specially programmed.“

AirPlus International: Leading provider for travel cost and acquisiton management

  • Employees: 1,174 (2013)
    Billing turnover: 11.8 billion EUR
    (2013)
  • Serving of over 41,900
    corporate customers in 60
    countries
  • 145 billion transactions per year
    (2013)
The introduction of JAVA APPLICATION ENGINE was simple and straightforward

Fr. Rendón-Valencia | TABEX4 manager at AirPlus International

The Success Story

Challenges

For more than 20 years AirPlus has been using TABEX to securely and efficiently carry out such a high number of transactions. TABEX is the product group of BOI Software Entwicklung und Vertrieb GmbH (BOI) for
high-performance table access and audit-proof table management.

AirPlus has developed two web-based applications ASPIS and EASY, which access data in TABEX tables and relational database tables.
These applications require user authentication as well as write access from Java applications to data stored in TABEX tables.

Goals

Mrs. Rendón-Valencia, TABEX4 manager at AirPlus International in the department “JX IO Transaction Processing Applications“, summarizes the main requirements: “For us, it was crucial that audit-proof logging of data maintenance can also be performed in Java applications without further programming. In addition, any changes made through Java write access should be logged in the centralized TABEX4 revision log.“

Solution

BOI has generalized the requirements of AirPlus and developed the TABEX4 JAVA APPLICATION ENGINE (JAE) as a new product of the TABEX4 product portfolio in close coordination with AirPlus.

JAE is a Java application programming interface for easy implementation of distributed Java application for the maintenance of TABEX tables by using the TABEX4 functionality.

The comfortable Java interface extends the functionality of TABEX for read and write access to table data via TCP/IP on distributed platforms. By using TABEX4 JAVA APPLICATION ENGINE, read and write access to table data is possible from any Java environment such as web applications (Java, JSP), GUI applications or server batch applications.

Benefit

Advantages of JAVA APPLICATION ENGINE:

  • Distributed and audit-proof maintenance of central table data (e.g. on
    the mainframe) using Java applications.
  • Easy implementation of web applications and GUI applications by
    using the BOI Java classes of the JAE.
  • Possibility of automation of table maintenance by distributed Java
    programs on all system platforms.
  • User authentification of JAE ensures that only authorized users are
    allowed to run JAE Java applications.
  • Moving applications from the mainframe to distributed platforms and
    therefore saving on hardware and software costs.
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Cooperation on highest level. One product, tailored to the requirements of an international company.

TABEX4 application development at AirPlus

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