Professional Flight Management 

 

Professional Flight Management

"Pervasive.SQL 2000 is so stable we never have to worry about our installations. We're involved in providing scheduling for top people in the top companies. You don't maintain these high-profile customers by having things go awry. And with Pervasive.SQL 2000, things never go awry."

-Bill Figures
President, Professional Flight Management

Professional Flight Management: Providing leading corporate aviation software

About Professional Flight Management
When the president of a Fortune 500 business flies on the company jet, the schedule is maintained by a powerful application used by the firm's aviation department: PFM Windows from Professional Flight Management. PFM's customers include high-flying corporations nationwide—all of whom depend on PFM Windows to schedule and maintain flight reservations, maintain passenger, crew, aircraft and airport databases and carry out the internal accounting and record keeping required when a company operates its own airplanes. Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Philadelphia, PFM is a widely recognized leader in the corporate aviation software business.

Business Challenge
To provide corporate aviation departments with robust, reliable software for managing their business-critical operations.

Pervasive.SQL 2000 Solution
PFM cites sheer performance as Pervasive.SQL 2000's number one advantage. PFM Windows handles hundreds of aircraft and passenger schedules; thousands of database updates are needed every time a flight or passenger reschedules. Pervasive.SQL 2000 has delivered an astonishing 4,000+ inserts a second with PFM Windows—a performance level no other database can match on equivalent hardware. Pervasive.SQL 2000's fast, easy installation is another big plus for PFM, whose far-flung customers can install an entire system with point-and-click simplicity. No longer does PMF need to send technicians into the field just for system installation. Plus, Pervasive.SQL 2000's dynamic server set-up ensures a flawless installation every time, in every environment.

Pervasive.SQL 2000's combination of rapid-fire transactional processing and SQL access make it a true "best of both worlds" solution. PFM depends on transactional processing for, among other things, lookup boxes used to browse huge databases. A SQL-only engine would require much more data to be downloaded for these lookups—and would take a lot more time. The transactional model allows for the downloading of only those records a user needs—thereby speeding operations considerably.

Bottom Line
Many of PFM's Fortune 500 clients attribute the success of their flight operations directly to PFM's solutions and support—a success PFM attributes in part to the speed, performance and reliability of Pervasive.SQL 2000.

For more information call 1.800.287.4383. To learn more about PFM, call 1.610.668.1655, or visit www.pfmsys.com