Background

krayamatics has built and supported the Megabus websites since Stagecoach launched the venture back in 2003. However, due to the rapidly expanding network in North America, a need was identified to develop a more powerful, robust and flexible ticketing application - one able to cope with the ever increasing demands of a system handling millions of dollars worth of ticket sales every year and to support new functionalities.

What We Did

krayamatics used the opportunity to design a new back-end system for Stagecoach from the ground up.  We used cutting-edge technologies to build an enterprise service oriented (SOA) application so called API to enable a seamless connection to the website front end. The design and implementation takes into account the continued anticipated growth of the Megabus customer base over the next ten years.
krayanet has successfully analysed and dimensioned Megabus needs.  The infrastructure deploys a number of failsafe, parallel, clustering and scaling technologies to ensure full support of the booking system. If any part of the architecture fails, the rest will isolate it to enable continuity of service, and as demand grows, the infrastructure can grow to match.

Results

The first phase of the project, the Megabus Canada site (ca.megabus.com), successfully went live on time and on budget in November 2009. The new US and UK sites are due to follow in early 2010. krayamatics solution is a fully scalable, future-proof system utilising multiple application and database servers to efficiently manage tens of thousands of transactions daily.