The airline to work with IBM Consulting to create and build
mission-critical technology and business capabilities to support
the path to their first flight
RIYADH,
Saudi Arabia and ARMONK,
N.Y., Nov. 6, 2023 /CNW/ -- Today, Riyadh Air
and IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the signing of a strategic agreement
in which IBM Consulting will be the lead systems integrator to
support creating, building and orchestrating the technology
foundation that can help the digitally native airline offer
exceptional and seamless travel experiences.
![Left to right: John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting and Adam Boukadida, Chief Financial Officer, Riyadh Air Left to right: John Granger, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting and Adam Boukadida, Chief Financial Officer, Riyadh Air](https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/2267370/IBM_Riyadh_Air.jpg)
Together, Riyadh Air and IBM Consulting have already created the
airline's digital and technology strategy. Now, Riyadh Air has
selected IBM Consulting to support building the key business and
technology capabilities that underpin the strategy. That includes
implementing and integrating more than 50 airline industry
solutions and core technology capabilities, including
security, infrastructure, integration and data platforms, using a
hybrid cloud approach. IBM will also orchestrate the work of over
40 partners by providing program and technical governance, project
management, quality assurance, change and communications management
and training.
The collaboration is expected to help position Riyadh Air
strategically within the broader ecosystem to offer digital
innovations and exceptional experiences for travelers and
guests. Riyadh Air aims to create a world class airline with
personalized and seamless guest experiences powered by AI and state
of the art digital technology, taking obsessive care for details
that create memorable micro-moments across the traveler journey. It
also includes empowering employees with data-driven insights and
new ways of working to help Riyadh Air better serve their
guests.
"Our ambition is to launch our first flight in 2025 and put
Riyadh Air at the cutting edge of digital technology and innovation
within the aviation industry, adopting the best international
sustainability and safety practices to deliver an exceptional
travel experience, for our guests locally and internationally,"
said Adam Boukadida, Chief Financial Officer, Riyadh Air. "IBM
Consulting will be our principal partner driving us towards our
vision with their deep expertise in managing large complex systems
and integration programs as well as their expertise in the travel
industry."
"We're proud to be Riyadh Air's partner and help them bring this
new era of the Kingdom's aviation industry to life," said
John Granger, Senior Vice President,
IBM Consulting. "A technology foundation built with an open, hybrid
cloud approach and AI can help them achieve the flexibility and
agility needed to support their goal of delivering an exceptional
travel experience for their guests."
IBM Consulting will also establish and maintain Riyadh Air's
hybrid cloud integration platform. With IBM CloudPak for
Integration and Red Hat OpenShift, this platform will provide
integration tools to connect applications and data within a unified
and simple user experience.
Riyadh Air's digital and technology strategy supports its
mission and is aligned to the Kingdom's Vision 2030 to lead the
aviation industry by transforming Saudi
Arabia, given its unique strategic location, into a global
aviation and trade hub.
IBM Consulting helps accelerate business transformation for our
clients through hybrid cloud and AI technologies, leveraging our
open ecosystem of partners. With deep industry and business
expertise spanning strategy, experience design, technology, and
operations, we have become a trusted partner to the world's most
innovative and valuable companies, helping them modernize and
secure their most complex systems. Our 160,000 consultants embrace
an open way of working and apply our proven co-creation method, IBM
Garage, to scale ideas into outcomes. As the only major global
systems integrator inside a technology company, we don't just
advise -- we invent and build what's next together with our
clients. Find out more at IBM.com/consulting.
About Riyadh Air
Riyadh Air is a world-class
airline owned by the Public Investment Fund (PIF). Launched in
March 2023, the airline will
be a digitally-led, full service airline that
adopts the best global sustainability and
safety practices across its advanced fleet of aircraft.
Riyadh Air will equip its aircrafts with the most advanced,
state-of-the-art features with innovative, best-in-class cabin
interiors and experiences, including next generation digital
in-flight entertainment systems and connectivity
solutions. Riyadh Air will connect guests to over 100
destinations around the world by 2030 through offering an
exceptional guest experience with an authentic, warm
Saudi hospitality at its heart.
For more information please visit our
website: www.riyadhair.com - and for any media inquiries
please contact us at: media@riyadhair.com
About IBM
IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid
cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more
than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data,
streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the
competitive edge in their industries. More than 4,000 government
and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as
financial services, telecommunications, airline, and healthcare
rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to
effect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and
securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing,
industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and
flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's
long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility,
inclusivity and service.
Visit www.ibm.com for more information.
IBM media contact:
Aymen Alfaraj
IBM Communciations
Aymen.Alfaraj@ibm.com
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