The Economist has a story on why Japan lost the mobile-phone wars to Scandinavia, Korea and others despite having been a pioneer in technology and usage of mobile devices. Japanese players are doing alright within Japan and still provide high-value components…
Category: Trends
The Creator, The Seller and The Personal Shopper
Walking down the aisles of a super store like Walmart or browsing the categories of an on-line super store like Amazon, I take for granted the choices in products that are laid out for me. Isn’t that these guys’ job? Go out…
Delta planning Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) systems as well
Despite the looming clouds of a USAirways takeover, Delta Airlines is moving ahead with plans to upgrade their systems to an industry standard Services Oriented Architecture. This will apparently be the second evolution of their “Delta Nervous System”, or DNS…
Airline Systems North of the Border
Air Canada will build a new system with help from ITA Software, to be rolled out late 2007. And the low-cost competitor Westjet seems to have given up on trying to build a system from scratch – going from developing…
HBSi gaining momentum with distribution of hotel inventory
Just ran across an interesting news item that I missed last November. Good, old HBSi finally snagged US Airways Vacations to distribute hotels from HBSi network. Even though most tour operators like GoGo, Travel Impressions and Funjet participate for distribution….and connectivity…
Sabre has ‘arrived’ with Web Services & SOA
After a long three year journey, Sabre is finally declaring victory in converting its legacy systems into a new Services Oriented Architecture (SOA). The first time we heard about this saga was in 2004, here and at Travdex’04. Congratulations, Sabre! We…
Expedia on SOA Bandwagon?
Looks like Expedia is maturing its SOA (Services-Oriented Architecture) strategy. Its recent purchase of an Enterprise Services Bus shows that it has continuing plans to componentize its architecture and use the SOA strategy to scale its technology and its business. Using…
Worldspan continues to rationalize murky airline ‘fare-rules’
In the recent excitement with Worldspan’s acquisition by Travelport (remember Cendant/Galileo?), a major technology improvement made by Worldspan did not get enough attention. Worldspan has integrated the SITA Automated Rules into its system and eliminated manual loading of rules data…
Technology Trends for a baseline
Three distinct but inter-twined trends permeate any modern industry today, including travel business. First, connectivity in an interconnected world is central to all discussions in the travel business, followed closely by a debate on user interfaces designed to get products…
It’s time to get ideas together…
By all accounts travel business is going to be stronger in 2007. More and more people want to explore new worlds, and at the very least have new experiences in the usual getaways. At the same time, everyone is much…