Ascent Technology gives you the power to control your costs, increase your operating margins, and use your human and physical resources to fullest advantage.

The SmartAirline Operations Center^® solution

Deploy your human and physical resources to greatest advantage on the ground and in the air

With Ascent Technology's SmartAirline Operations Center solution, you can forecast, plan, schedule, optimize, and manage your resources so you can handle your flights, operate your stations, and accommodate your passengers efficiently and cost-effectively.

The SmartAirline Operations center solution plans lines of flight for schedules, assigns aircraft to routes, and tracks aircraft in real time. It supports the short-term planning and real-time management of key station resources, such as gates, stands, remote parking positions, check-in counters and desks, baggage make-up and reclaim belts, ramp equipment, tugs, buses, and departure lounges. The solution manages a broad range of day-of-operation activities, such as determining when departing aircraft meet security guidelines, managing queues at check-in counters and security checkpoints, and handling diversions. It provides intelligent real-time schedule-recovery support when operations do not go according to plan.

The SmartAirline Operations Center solution contains a version of the Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system, customized for the air-transportation environment, that plans, schedules, and manages station workforce.

Airlines around the world rely on Ascent Technology's fully-integrated From Touchdown to Takeoff cloud-hosted service to optimize, plan, schedule, and manage costly resources around the clock, day in and day out.

The SmartAirport Operations Center^® Solution

Deploy your ground resources to greatest advantage

With Ascent Technology's SmartAirport Operations Center solution, you can forecast, plan, schedule, optimize, and manage your resources so you can operate your airport, handle your flights, and accommodate your customers efficiently and cost-effectively.

The SmartAirport Operations center solution supports the short-term planning and real-time management of key airport resources, such as gates, stands, remote parking positions, check-in counters and desks, make-up and reclaim baggage belts, ramp equipment, tugs, buses, and departure lounges. It manages a broad range of day-of-operation activities, such as determining when departing aircraft meet security guidelines, managing queues at check-in counters and security checkpoints, handling diversions, and calculating ground-resource fees with a usage-based billing system. The solution provides intelligent real-time schedule-recovery support when operations do not go according to plan.

The SmartAirport Operations Center solution contains a version of the Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system, customized for the air-transportation environment, that plans, schedules, and manages the airport workforce.

Airports around the world rely on Ascent Technology's fully-integrated From Touchdown to Takeoff cloud-hosted service to optimize, plan, schedule, and manage costly resources around the clock, day in and day out.

The Ascent WorkZone^® workforce-management system

Simply the best workforce optimization and management solution for mission-critical and labor-intensive environments

The Ascent WorkZone workforce management system optimizes, plans, schedules, and deploys your workforce for maximum efficiency and lowest cost. When you use the innovative Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system to optimize your workforce, you can be sure the right workers are in the right places at the right times to handle your workload efficiently and at the lowest possible cost.

The Ascent WorkZone workforce-management system controls costs and helps mission-critical and labor-intensive organizations, such as airlines, airports, casinos, defense, hospitals, hotels, resorts, retail stores, and security, use human and physical resources to greatest advantage.

Ascent Technology helps you get started quickly and keeps you working productively

Ascent Technology provides powerful solutions that determine which resources you need, when you need them, and where you need them, so you have the right resources in the right places at the right times at the right cost to operate efficiently and effectively.

We surround the ARIS® Ascent Resource Information System® solutions with comprehensive services that will you get started quickly, so you can optimize your human and physical resources, operate efficiently, and control your costs without delay.

We are passionate about helping you to optimize your operations, and we are dedicated to ensuring your success.

From Touchdown to Takeoff^® cloud-hosted service

Forecast, plan, optimize, and manage critical resources with Ascent Technology’s From Touchdown to Takeoff® cloud-hosted subscription service for airline and airport operations

Ascent Technology’s From Touchdown to Takeoff cloud-hosted service delivers the power of SmartAirline Operations Center®, SmartAirport Operations Center®, and Ascent WorkZone® workforce-management solutions in a secure, reliable, scalable cloud-hosted environment.

When you subscribe to our cloud-hosted service, you use a standard browser to gain access to our powerful resource-allocation solutions directly from your network. We can quickly adjust computing power to meet your organization’s changing needs and scale the platform to accommodate additional users, resources, facilities, and locations.

We have provided best-in-class hosted solutions for mission-critical resource optimization and allocation from our managed data center since 1998 and from our AWS cloud-hosted environments since 2017. Airlines, airports, and related organizations around the world rely on our fully-integrated From Touchdown to Takeoff cloud-hosted subscription service to optimize, plan, schedule, and manage costly resources around the clock, day in and day out.

Ascent Technology delivers powerful resource-allocation,
workforce-optimization, and workforce-management solutions

Ascent Technology develops and markets software solutions that solve complex resource optimization, scheduling, management, and deployment problems for mission-critical and labor-intensive environments, such as airlines, airports, casinos, defense, hospitals, hotels, resorts, restaurants, retail, and security.

Since our founding nearly 40 years ago by members of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ascent Technology has helped organizations deploy costly human and physical resources as efficiently, effectively, and economically as possible.

We are passionate about helping our customers increase the efficiency of their operations, and we are dedicated to ensuring the success of our customers and our business partners. You can rely on Ascent Technology to deliver solutions you can trust 100% of the time.