I.R.I.S. announced that its subsidiary Corismo has installed a platform based on IBM Power System AIX at Tele Ticket Service to replace several heterogeneous environments. Tele Ticket Service controls access and sells tickets for sporting and musical events, such as the Belgian football championships and the events at the Sportpaleis.

            The company was able to record ticket reservations which were made by phone. Now, thanks to technological convergence, the tickets can be ordered by text or online. Tele Ticket Service now provides the logistics for about 2.5 million tickets a year. Tele Ticket Service has recently expanded the number of its servers, now having about 30 Intel servers which run under different operating systems. It was time to migrate to a platform which would make it possible to plan for growth in the future.
           “After analyzing Tele Ticket Service’s requirements, Corismo proposed a new IBM Power System AIX infrastructure to replace all the heterogeneous environments with a consolidated platform in terms of hardware and software,” says Gamal Khaldi, General Manager, I.R.I.S. ICT (I.R.I.S. subsidiary into which Corismo has been integrated). “Thanks to this platform’s expandability and stability, Tele Ticket Service can now offer national and international clients a complete ticketing solution, including ordering, access control and logistics. Maintenance and management costs have come down substantially, which now makes it possible to manage smaller events. The solution provided by Corismo therefore offers increased availability, greater certainty and prospects for the future, so that clients’ changing needs can continue to be met.”
          “Much of our time was taken up with IT problems. When we saw that we had gone from a handful of Intel servers to more than 30 servers, we called our system into question. Corismo devised a global solution entirely dedicated to our needs and our future business model. Rather than contenting ourselves with our existing client base and hoping that our system would not give up on us, we now have the peace of mind to work on growing our business, including abroad,” says Stefan Esselens, Tele Ticket Service director.