Airlines Reporting Corporation Boosts Performance, Flexibility and Efficiency with Snowflake

Shifting to a modern cloud-built data warehouse allows ARC to better serve the global travel industry

SAN MATEO, Calif. — August 14, 2018 — Snowflake Computing, the data warehouse built for the cloud, today announced that the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), the premier driver of air travel intelligence and commerce in the travel industry, has deployed Snowflake to improve speed, efficiency and flexibility for its more than $88 billion of transactions per year.

ARC provides transaction settlement services, comprehensive ticketing data, and expertise for the global air travel industry and its travel agency channel. With a 50-year legacy, ARC, which is airline-owned, is a crucial hub of information and services for the global air industry, helping its customers shape and execute their business.

“Data is at the core of ARC’s identity, whether it’s the data around a ticket purchase or the market data that allows our customers to better understand and optimize their business,” ARC Vice President and Chief Information Officer Dickie Oliver said. “Using Snowflake is a natural advance for our data strategy, allowing us to leverage the benefits of a cloud-computing environment to deliver on the promise of a truly data-driven travel industry.”

A key element of ARC’s overall business transformation is the implementation of a highly scalable enterprise data warehouse that powers ARC’s data products and enables insights into the travel industry. ARC completed an in-depth evaluation using real-world use cases of multiple cloud-based options and chose Snowflake as the best solution. Snowflake offered the highest performance, fastest time-to-market and lowest price point. Additional Snowflake benefits include:
Faster performance – Customers will be able to request new reports in a shorter period of time, and receive responses to requests for customizations of existing reports more quickly.

• Create business efficiencies – ARC will be able to streamline its product delivery to optimize both costs and value to its customers.
• Greater customization – With Snowflake, ARC’s data team will be able to execute against a series of product-specific data marts for each customer, tailoring the offering to the needs of the specific customer.
• More insight into costs – Snowflake enables ARC to gain better insight into the resources involved in producing any given product or report.

“ARC is the gold standard for data in the air travel industry, touching the experience of hundreds of millions of travelers and tourists every year,” Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia said. “Their decision to utilize Snowflake to better serve their customer base is further validation that our technology adds value to companies of all stripes, from disruptive innovators to established enterprise players.”

About Snowflake Computing

Snowflake is the only data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake enables the data-driven enterprise with instant elasticity, secure data sharing and per-second pricing. Snowflake combines the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. Snowflake: Your data, no limits. Find out more at snowflake.net.

About ARC

An industry leader in air travel distribution and intelligence, ARC settled $88.5 billion in ticket transactions in 2017 between airlines and travel agencies, representing more than 265 million passenger trips. ARC also provides flexible distribution solutions, innovative technology and access to the world’s most comprehensive air ticket transaction data, helping the global air travel community connect, grow and thrive. For more information, please visit www.arccorp.com.

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Snowflake Computing
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ARC
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