lufthansa CIO Christop Ganswindt is confident that the "small double digit" millions of dollars investment that Lufthansa is making in the (SOA)set-up will help it cut future development costs as it will eliminate the need for custom programming each time the airline needs to create a new connection to Amadeus or other service providers. "This will ultimately lower our operating costs," says Ganswindt, who declined to provide a specific number.

Under the SOA set up, Lufthansa is using a collection of software components, designed to facilitate the flow of business data within and between organizations by using standard messaging and security protocols and is using the outsourcer Electronic Data Systems to build the services oriented architecture.

"We have a lot of systems that need to communicate with Amadeus; adding a layer of [SOA] middleware to handle that communication gives us a lot of flexibility," says Lufthansa CIO Christop Ganswindt.

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Prashanth Rai