SBB improves rail user experience, brings new
applications to market faster and reduces costs with Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open
source solutions, today announced that the Schweizerische
Bundesbahnen (SBB, Swiss Federal Railways), Switzerland’s national
railways company, has deployed Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
as the cornerstone of its IT modernization program. With Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, SBB has created a scalable and more
agile platform for its application development, and is delivering
new services, including an updated mobile application, to better
serve the millions of passengers who travel via SBB each year.
Founded in 1902, SBB is not only the largest travel and
transport company in Switzerland, but it is also among the biggest
employers in the country. SBB’s operations span four divisions -
passenger traffic, freight, infrastructure, and real estate. In
2015, SBB’s network of nearly 10,500 trains carried more than 50
million tons of freight and more than 440 million passengers
between 794 stations.
SBB prides itself on offering not only modern trains and
amenities, but also other services and IT systems that can meet
evolving customer expectations. However, its traditional IT systems
were struggling to cope with the pace of innovation happening
across the sector, and limited SBB’s ability to quickly launch new
provisions and modifications based on customer needs. SBB
recognized the potential of digital services and mobility, and
customer expectations among its passengers for applications,
leading it to embark on a project to improve application
development with a modern and agile platform that would not
compromise system stability, speed, flexibility, performance,
cost-effectiveness and innovativeness – all of which are central
factors for SBB.
As SBB undertook its IT modernization program, it wanted to
deploy a modern and flexible IT platform that could place it in a
strong position to take advantage of the opportunities presented by
digitization and help it better meet growing customer expectations
in these areas. SBB had prior experience using enterprise-grade
open source solutions, leading them to the decision that an open
source, container-based architecture would be capable of complying
with its requirements. Container-based architectures provide
flexibility over traditional monolithic infrastructure, as
applications are packaged into a container with only the required
operating system components. This increases flexibility and
portability across architectures and also allows for increased
scalability as business demands evolve. Recognizing the benefits it
offered, SBB selected Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform as the
basis of its modern IT platform.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is the first and only
container-centric, hybrid cloud solution built from the Docker,
Kubernetes, Project Atomic and OpenShift Origin upstream projects
and based on the trusted backbone of the world’s leading enterprise
Linux platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform provides a more secure, stable platform for
container-based deployments without sacrificing current IT
investments, allowing for mission-critical, traditional
applications to coexist alongside new, cloud-native and
container-based applications.
After selecting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in autumn
2015, SBB began a pilot involving 15 projects in January 2016. Once
the pilots kicked off, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform’s
popularity among developers and project managers led the scope of
the pilot to more than triple in a short period of time. Today, 300
users at SBB use Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, with more
than 900 containers in service and approximately 400 deployments
every day. The SBB Mobile app has been downloaded more than 7.5
million times since its launch in 2008, and the latest version,
launched in 2016, has attracted more than three million regular
users. The app, built on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform,
enables customers to buy tickets and access a touch timetable,
receive real-time information on arrival and departure times, and
receive push notifications and reminders from SBB’s travel
companion.
For SBB, key benefits of its new solution include its stability
and fault tolerance. The new container-based platform has not only
given SBB the modern IT platform it sought to create new digital
offerings, but it has also resulted in tangible benefits for how
SBB’s developers work. SBB’s developers and operations teams are
able to act independently, helping SBB to achieve more agility and
speed in its application development. With Red Hat OpenShift
Container Platform, they can make modifications to individual
elements on the live system without impairing the stability and
functionality of the overall system.
Supporting Quotes
Baltisar Oswald, software architect, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen
SBB
“We recognized that the rapid pace of innovation across the rail
sector could no longer be managed with a traditional IT structure
and required a flexible, scalable platform which offered us fast
development options without disrupting our live systems. Red Hat
OpenShift Container Platform, with its container-based
architecture, provided us with the innovation potential we
required, in addition to operational stability and efficiency
improvements across our infrastructure. Thanks to the deployment of
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, we have reduced our running
costs by approximately 50 percent.”
Ashesh Badani, vice president and general manager, OpenShift,
Red Hat
“The work at SBB is an impressive testament to the
high-performance of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform when it
comes to replacing old IT platforms which can no longer meet modern
requirements. With the incredible pace of innovation intrinsic to
open source technology, deploying Red Hat OpenShift Container
Platform offers users added confidence that their solutions can
meet their needs not only today, but also well into the future. We
are thrilled to accompany SBB on its path through the new
application economy.”
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