The Romanian National Passengers Railway Transport company "CFR - Calatori" S.A., was asking for:

• A national system for ticketing
• A complex and ambitious project covering in the first stage the electronic ticket sales and for futher stages the electronic seat reservation and other facilities for passengers.
• The "Railway IT" -S.A. acting as designer and system integrator
• Hewlett Packard and Practical Automation as technology providers
• Oracle and Microsoft as standard software providers

IRIS PROJECT

The IRIS Project started in 1996 as a part of the Romanian Railways Rehabilitation program and following the IT Strategy approved by the Company Board of Directors in 1995.

Within 1996 - 1999 a complex and long bidding process was completed, following the World Bank procurement rules and the contract for IRIS was awarded to International Computers Limited, UK, actually Fujitsu Company, as prime contractor.

The work started in June 1999 and the CFR partners in the Contract are:

• Fujitsu Services, as prime contractor and system integrator
• Sun System and
• Hewlett Packard as hardware providers,
• Cisco and
• RAD as communications providers
• Oracle and
• Microsoft as standard software providers,
• Datastream,
• Intergraph,
• Spear Technologies as application software packages providers,
• SchlumbergerSema, as services provider for inhouse developed application software