Brisbane, 4000, QLD,
Australia
Sida4
Sida4, a prominent reseller, system integrator, and consulting company, that plays a vital role in numerous system integration and digital transformation initiatives. Sida4 collaboration with software players such as Apache Software, Confluent and empowers organizations to embrace disruptive technologies and accelerate their journey to the cloud, thus reshaping their business models.
| Reseller and SI | Vendor | Application | Category | Market |
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| Sida4 | Apache Software | Apache Kafka | Database Management,Open-Source Database | IaaS |
| Sida4 | Confluent | Confluent Cloud | Data Streaming | IaaS |
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Virgin Australia | Transportation | 8000 | $4.1B | Australia | Apache Software | Apache Kafka | Database Management,Open-Source Database | 2022 |
In 2022, Virgin Australia began the Oracle SOA Suite decommissioning program and migrated core event streaming to Apache Kafka, Database Management,Open-Source Database. The initiative established a modern streaming foundation to consolidate middleware and enable real time operational messaging across passenger and crew systems.
The implementation delivered a multi year event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka and Confluent components, with over 70 Kafka based microservices deployed to enable reliable real time data movement. Functional capabilities implemented included event ingestion, stream processing, and microservice based distribution patterns to route passenger centric events to operational consumers.
Integration work was executed in partnership with Sida4 and 4impact alongside Virgin Australia internal teams, ensuring connectivity between the Kafka event fabric and existing operational endpoints. The scope explicitly covered delivering passenger information to flight crews and streamlining dozens of information flows that support day to day airline operations.
Governance and rollout followed a phased decommissioning approach and reached a final touched down completion milestone after the multi year program. The program retired 100 plus SOA middleware applications and deployed the stated Kafka platform, outcomes that included reduced time to departure through faster delivery of key passenger information to flight crews. Project leadership and operational handover were driven by Sida4 and 4impact technical leads, sustaining institutional knowledge for follow on work with Virgin Australia.
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Virgin Australia | Transportation | 8000 | $4.1B | Australia | Confluent | Confluent Cloud | Data Streaming | 2022 |
In 2022, Virgin Australia implemented Confluent Cloud for Data Streaming as the core platform of a multi-year event streaming program. The program was delivered in partnership with Sida4 and 4impact, working alongside Virgin Australia internal teams, and included an Oracle SOA decommissioning program that reached a formal completion milestone.
Confluent Cloud was configured to support Kafka native event streaming, stream processing and messaging workloads, and the project delivered more than 70 Kafka based microservices to enable reliable real time data movement. The implementation retired over 100 previous SOA middleware applications and consolidated dozens of discrete information flows into topic oriented streaming pipelines, reflecting a move from synchronous SOA interactions to asynchronous event driven patterns.
Operational scope focused on airline operational data, explicitly accelerating delivery of key passenger information to flight crews and streamlining processes that support day to day airline operations. The deployment touched flight operations and crew information workflows, operational control and passenger services, using Confluent Cloud to centralize event distribution and near real time state propagation across those business functions.
Governance and rollout were managed as a multi year program with phased decommissioning and close collaboration between Sida4, 4impact and Virgin Australia teams, led technically by project CTO Jerry Gaines. The program outcome included the formal retirement of SOA middleware, the deployment of Kafka based microservices, faster availability of passenger data to operational teams, and a transition to a Data Streaming led architecture with further projects planned.
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