Sabre Airlines Solutions Unveils New Cost-Effective Technology
announced today the launch of a new component for SabreSonic,
the industry’s first new generation passenger management suite.
The new
component is a breakthrough offering that enhances the SabreSonic suite by
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automating revenue integrity processes, offering airlines flexible,
easy-to-use technology for protecting existing revenue streams in a
cost-effective manner.
As part of the new product launch, Sabre Airline Solutions announced the
acquisition of Lanyon, LTD, a leading provider of business process
management (BPM) software to the airline and travel industries.
Integration of Lanyon’s DigitalQueue Revenue Integrity Management software
with the SabreSonic suite provides a complementary and complete offering in
revenue integrity.
Along with this revenue integrity technology, Sabre Airline Solutions also
gained a set of processes that evaluates fare and other data on global
distribution systems (GDS) to ensure consistency and data integrity with
the actual fares attached to the carrier’s inventory on their host
reservations system. By identifying incorrect information and taking
corrective measures in the GDS, a carrier is able to prevent unnecessary
credit memos, customer dissatisfaction, and negative agency relationships.
“Lanyon is a natural fit for our global airline customer base,” said Gianni
Marostica, president of the Airline Passenger Solutions business within
Sabre Airline Solutions. “The solutions they have developed are specific
to the travel industry and are built on an open systems platform,
consistent with our SabreSonic suite of products and services. This means
we can enhance our revenue integrity management solutions to both current
and future Sabre Airline Solutions customers almost immediately.”
The offering will be available for both hosted and non-hosted carriers.
The revenue integrity technology for non-hosted carriers is available as a
stand-alone offering allowing carriers to select this technology even if
they use an in-house or third party reservations solution. For hosted
carriers, the revenue integrity technology is integrated into the hosted
SabreSonic offering.
The technology permits the user to customise and edit the control data that
modifies the way the processes work specific to the airline via a Web-based
interface in an easy to use point and drag environment. Airlines will be
able to review results of these processes from the Web. The revenue
integrity technology will also offer passenger-messaging capabilities at a
lower cost compared to other solutions in the market.
“Revenue integrity requirements have existed for a long time, and they are
often performed in a labour intensive and thus expensive manner. Also,
contrary to traditional robotics, our solution automates this process
without excessively increasing CPU usage. Increased revenue integrity
functionality was a hot topic at the SabreSonic Customer Community Forum
this year,” said Marostica. “Protecting revenues in today’s environment
has become increasingly difficult, and it is imperative that airlines have
tools that help them address any areas that are leaking revenue without
significantly increasing labour costs as with traditional solutions. Our
new revenue integrity capabilities will allow airline analysts to create
and monitor automated processes as a replacement for repetitive,
cost-intensive legacy processes.”
“Integration of the Lanyon line-up of airline software products into the
SabreSonic portfolio is a highly strategic event for us,” said Nick Lanyon,
Lanyon president and CEO. “Like Sabre Airline Solutions, our people have
in-depth experience with the travel industry and an unflagging commitment
to unleashing the power of open technology. We look forward to bringing
the benefit of our years of industry innovation and service to Sabre
Airline Solutions’ customers worldwide.”
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