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United and Amadeus collaborating to incorporate NDC
NDC continues to gain momentum…….Read the whole article in Travel Weekly United Airlines and Amadeus are collaborating on a merchandising strategy that will include implementation of IATA’s New...
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Millennial expectations of the travel and transportation industry
I just read this thought provoking new blog post by my colleague Kurt Wedgwood. Here is an excerpt and a link to the entire post. Considering the Millennial demographic Is it the mobility of the...
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Digital Travel Pioneer Terry Jones Launches WayBlazer, Powered by IBM Watson
NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas – Industry pioneers in travel and technology today announced WayBlazer, a company that uses leading edge technology to redefine the way consumers dream, plan, personalize and...
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Airlines International – The Art of Data Management
See the lead article in Airlines International titled “The Art of Data Management”. Link to the article http://airlines.iata.org/analysis/the-art-of-data-management Excerpts Indeed, there is much to...
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Contemplate 240 milliseconds per transaction and do it securely and at scale?...
IBM Enterprise2014, October 6-10 – Mainframe Insights Travelport, a leading travel commerce platform, relies on the power of the IBM mainframe to handle sophisticated search and delivery across...
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The mainframe is alive and well at Travelport
Travelport’s travel commerce platform is the engine enabling online, offline and corporate travel agents to bring together the best and most relevant options for their customers. And the IBM mainframe...
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Advanced Weather Insights for Travel and Transportation Businesses
Advanced Weather Insights for Travel and Transportation Businesses Weather forecasting plays an important role in our daily lives. We check the weather prediction before heading to work and while...
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IBM and Facebook Team Up to Deliver Personalized Brand Experiences Through...
Using data from Twitter and now Facebook, IBM now offers consumer facing businesses the ability to differentiate themselves with unparalleled target marketing. Airlines, hotels and travel distributors...
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What do your passengers want?
Did you miss our webinar about the airline passenger experience last week? You’re in luck ! The webinar recording is now available. Today’s savvy travelers increasingly expect airlines to understand...
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Of Discretion and its costs: memoirs of a dinner chat
Last Friday I was with a mathematician-friend for dinner and as we finished scooping up the last traces of the heavenly home-baked spaghetti, we arrived at our common interest: math in airline...
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Caution! Errors ahead…
To err on the side of caution is an interesting philosophy. It gives you a snug feeling of purposeful self-righteousness, a reassurance that you are safe from peril by a good measure. While that is...
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Airlines Can Profit from Being Smart, But Being Smarter Can Help Them Own the...
Terry Jones wants airlines to follow him down a new path, which, he says, could help airlines move beyond being transport providers to single-source travel services companies, by capitalizing on the...
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The travel and transportation industry is at an inflection point
It is truly an honor and privilege to assume the role of General Manager, IBM Global Travel and Transportation Industry. As a former client of IBM and a passionate champion of re-inventing and...
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4.0 is coming – electronic agents will have an answer to everything
4.0 is coming – electronic agents will have an answer to everything Web 4.0 is the impending state at which all the information converges into a great ball of benevolent self-aware light, and solves...
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Real-time weather data: Customers, conversions and efficiencies for travel...
The benefits of data analytics for travel industry leaders are not confined to understanding customer behavior over time—insights can also be gained in the moment. Real-time weather data provides...
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Insights from the IBM Global C-suite Study – The CIO Perspective
A few short years ago, C-level executives at companies in various industries, including travel and transportation related businesses, felt that they could see emerging market threats and react...
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IBM Watson is Changing Travel in Ways Nobody is Expecting
IBM Watson Is Changing Travel in Ways Nobody’s Expecting Redefining Boundaries for the C-suite The Rise of Design Thinking For the last five years, IBM has strived to reinvent itself as a cloud...
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3 Mobile Factors Reshaping Travel
With one in four travelers booking trips via smartphone, and with smartphone- and tablet-based searches for hotels and airline tickets growing in the triple digits, opportunities for mobile to reshape...
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The Airline Industry 2015 in a Nutshell
In this report, aviation consultancy PROLOGIS presents the year 2015 in figures. This is a market monitor, based on data prepared by airline intelligence provider ch-aviation, that summarizes...
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12 Airline Trend Predictions for 2016: Which Are Most Likely to Succeed?
In-flight retailing and technology firms GuestLogix and OpenJaw have each released their respective predictions of top trends in air travel technology for 2016. But which of them are really ready to...
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