AMR Corp’s American Airlines Sabre Travel Information Network division has purchased an personal computer-based production imaging application from Costa Mesa, California-based FileNet Corp to automate contracts processing with travel agents using the Sabre reservations system: known within the division as Vision, Visually Integrated Optical Network, the new imaging application will help American manage its planned expansion; WorkFlo orchestrates multiple window applications through Windows 3.0, and by coexisting with Sabre, WorkFlo supports mainframe systems, Word for Windows, Microsoft Excel and the Network Courier electronic mail package; the company has installed a FileNet OSAR 90GT optical jukebox with more than 230Gb of on-line storage, five image management servers, two document entry servers with mixed document scanners and two high-capacity image printers; the equipment resides on Novell Inc NetWare, supporting 150 16MHz 80386SX personal computers, 105 of which are image-enabled; when fully operational, the Vision application will process more than 31,000 new pages each month and support monthly retrieval of 81,000 pages from existing files; data generated on a mainframe at Sabre’s central processing site in Tulsa, Oklahoma will be downloaded via FileNet’s Cold software capability, which stores output on laser disks.
