Work place: Amadeus Labs, Bangalore, 560087, India
E-mail: hari.sankaranarayanan@amadeus.com
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Research Interests: Software Development Process, Software Engineering, Computer systems and computational processes, Systems Architecture, Information Systems, Type Systems
Biography
Hari Bhaskar Sankaranarayanan is working in the area of travel research, product development, and engineering. His interests include enterprise architecture, the design of distributed systems, software quality and programming languages.
By Hari Bhaskar Sankaranarayanan Viral Rathod
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2016.06.07, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2016
Airport offers an ecosystem where passengers, airlines, airport, and merchants meet under one roof during travel. During the journey, there is a good amount of time spent by passengers on waiting or transit before boarding the flight. Passengers look for spending that time by shopping, dining, and entertainment. Airport merchants and airlines look for merchandising opportunities to acquire new customers, up-sell, and cross-sell their products and services. Highly personalized merchandising offers can be generated on the fly by combining contextual information from passenger profile, likes and interests, merchant offers, and location specific events, seasons, and festivals. To achieve this, a strong airport merchandising platform is needed. The goal of the airport merchandising platform is to exchange information in a seamless manner across travel systems. The platform is designed on microservices design principles that use information from airlines, airport, social media, and merchant systems. Microservices can promote quick development, deployment, and realization of services. Microservices also improve the time to market capabilities. Mobile and desktop applications consume them to offer a personalized shopping experience to the passengers.
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