High Volume Price Calculation for Tour Operator Products
My name is Bart Hansen, and as a Delivery Focused Architect, I am currently working at TUI Western-Europe.
The business context I support is all about planning and created holiday products, and selling these through Retail and Web channels. The footprint covered includes Belgium, France and The Netherlands reaching a total of almost 5 billion Euros.
In this context we've completed a Proof-of-concept project based on the Gridgain technology, to make one single solution to calculate product pricing in real-time answering requests coming from all our source markets. Previously we could only reach the high volume, high speed and high availability requirements by using huge volume pre-calculated cache databases. But these solutions give us less precise, slower and more expensive results compared to what we achieved using Gridgain.
The solution is not in production yet, but we already started to think how we could solve more of our challenges using Gridgain, such as our Search and Availability functionality.
In the talk we would like to present the audience the steps taken to the results achieved, give more insights in the non-functional requirements we need to achieve, and the solution we plan to push into production.
The mix of Bart's practical based experience and theoretical knowledge of frameworks and foundations give him the ability to quickly identify business concerns, develop multiple viewpoints to the stakeholders, and translate them into an efficient IT solution delivery road-map.
Over the past 18 years Bart worked in various industries ranging from automotive, government, electronics, financial and communications. The solutions he was involved in ranged from small, powerful mobile solutions to large scale high available e-government enterprise applications.
Bart has a vast experience in process and requirements modeling, OO analysis and design, UML, project management and Enterprise Architecture.
Bart holds a Master in E-business and qualified as: Certified Software Architect, ICT Enterprise Architect and Certified Business Process Manager.
Specialties:
* Business and functional requirements analysis
* Translating business problems into IT solutions
* Modeling Enterprise Architectures or large scale ICT applications
* Stakeholder communication
* Defining master plans, programs and projects including estimating budgets and planning
* Create base technical IT architectures (using SOA, CMS, DMS, Portals, ERP suites...)
* Selecting vendor solutions or outsourcing partners
* Object Oriented Design and Analysis (UML, Patterns)
* Mobile solutions (Android, iOS, HTML5, game development)
