Delivering High Quality and Commercial Management Information

Business Challenges
Following significant changes in the structure of the UK’s commercial railway, the new Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC) needed the ability to see their earnings much more in real-time and to have the ability to easily access and analyze the vast amounts of data which was collected through rail retailing in order that more informed management decision regarding the business could be made.

The Solution
From a testing perspective the salient elements of the solution were:

• Verification and validation of over 17 million lines of code
• Testing for 15 terabytes of disk storage
• Load and performance testing of the systems 28 X 900 mega-hertz of processing capacity
• 40 gigabytes of memory
• Rigorous testing against existing system using 2 pilots

The Benefits

•  24-hour settlement information compared to 6 weeks using the existing system
• Sign-off from all 27 Train Operating Companies
• Daily access to daily sales and earnings information
• The system went live now handles £20 million of ticket sales daily, equating to more than £3.5 billion annually

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