Jet Aviation flies on Cloud Computing Services.

Successful for decades in the turbulent aviation market, Swiss company Jet Aviation, which was set up in 1967, offers a wide range of services covering the entire aircraft maintenance chain. Core competences also include engineering, avionics, aircraft interior outfitting, ground services or aircraft management through to the purchase and sale of
air-craft. At 25 company locations in several time zones, 5,700 staff work hand in hand in this highly safety-sensitive industry. A key challenge is the need for computing capacity that fluctuates over the business cycle.

The sky’s the limit – flexible standard solution becomes a compelling option.

The cloud computing solution “Dynamic Services for SAP® Solutions” with its flexible provisioning of IT resources helps eliminate capacity bottlenecks, increase flexibility, dynamically tailor computing power to business operations and reduce costs according to the actual quantity used. At Jet Aviation the system is configured for around half of the 1,200 users during normal operation. Where necessary additional capacity can be added within a question of minutes, say if the response times increase due to high access rates.

Jet Aviation has outsourced the entire operation of its IT applications to T-Systems’ private cloud. The cloud data center at the Langenthal location utilizes virtualization-based pooling effects and is connected to all of Jet Aviation’s international locations. Monthly reports provide the customer with complete transparency on the computing power used and the service quality. Two geographically separate, mirrored data centers provide additional security – in an emergency one can always take over from the other.