Sabre Partners With Realtime Enterprises to Launch First Personal Travel Agent at DEMO Technology Showcase
February 13 2005 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Sabre Partners With Realtime Enterprises to Launch First Personal
Travel Agent at DEMO Technology Showcase Aurora, a revolutionary
new Smart Connect application lets travelers look, book and
schedule travel with a mouse click SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 13
/PRNewswire/ -- DEMO@15! Conference -- Realtime Enterprises today
unveiled its new Smart Connect Internet platform for the travel
industry and announced a major distribution partnership with Sabre
Holdings (NYSE:TSG). Realtime will supply its Aurora personal agent
software to Sabre's network of 20,000 travel agencies in the summer
of 2005 to vastly simplify transactions and cut costs in the
margin-squeezed industry. "This product brings major benefits to
every segment of the travel industry -- travelers, agents,
suppliers and global distributors," says Chris Shipley, Executive
Producer of DEMO, a major technology showcase for the technology
venture industry. "It combines the power of Web services with the
processing power of the PC or PDA in ways we have not seen before."
Aurora installs a "Travel" button in the user's PC or digital
device which empowers them to "look, book and schedule" travel
services directly from applications such as Microsoft Outlook(R) --
without having to launch a browser. Aurora connects them directly
to Sabre's Web services via the Microsoft .NET (R) framework
thereby vastly simplifying the entire transaction. "It saves time,
money and makes life easier for everyone involved," said Corey
Ladd, of Sabre. Aurora a Smart Connect, not a Dumb Terminal
"Instead of booking air, car, and hotel arrangements separately,
travelers enter their trip requirements once into the Aurora
application which is embedded in their Outlook calendar," says
Kost. Aurora then scans the Sabre system and other providers,
integrates the information and proposes a solution that the user
can accept or modify. Once the traveler has reviewed and approved
the proposed travel plan it is automatically entered in her Outlook
calendar. It will also be entered automatically into colleagues'
calendars if desired. When the trip is completed Aurora takes on
the unpopular task of creating expense reports automatically using
itinerary information. "Aurora's rich user experience is an
excellent example of how compelling smart client applications can
be built using .NET-connected technologies and Web services," said
Dave Mendlen, director of Web services marketing at Microsoft. "Web
services enable the creation of powerful solutions that connect
remote systems with familiar desktop applications like Outlook,
Excel, and Word, dramatically improving the experience for
customers." "While computer users have been able to make travel
reservations over the Internet for some time, Aurora's Smart
Connect takes connectivity to a new level," according to Kost. "For
the first time Smart Connect integrates the data from multiple
providers into a single application. This has profound implications
for the travel industry. Now you can use a single desktop
application to collect information from airlines, rental cars,
hotels, and other providers such as limousine, restaurant, mapping
and weather services - and present a comprehensive solution," he
said. The company recently closed a round of private venture
capital funded by Series A investors that include First Round
Venture Capital, GeoCapital and Cove Harbor Partners. About
Realtime Enterprises Founded by Robert Kost and Sam Meo, industry
veterans and pioneers in the development of web services software,
Realtime Enterprises has developed revolutionary patent-pending
Smart Connect applications. These are task- oriented, problem
solving applications that for the first time use the internet to
gather data and distribute processing in order to identify
solutions and present them to users. The Company's first integrated
Smart Connect application connects travelers to airlines, rental
cars and hotels, and presents a single travel solution in their
Microsoft Outlook calendars. Applications in other industries will
follow. The Company's first product, Book Avis, was launched in
2004. It enables Avis customers to make, modify and cancel car
reservations from within Microsoft Outlook(R). Contact: Robert
Kost, CEO, , 914-734-1768 For more information on Realtime
Enterprises, visit http://www.realtimeenterprises.com/ About
DEMO@15! The annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies
and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum
of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned
their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's
cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for
companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics,
helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business
relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference
features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies.
For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit
http://www.demo.com/ . All product and service names mentioned
herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. DATASOURCE:
Realtime Enterprises CONTACT: Robert Kost, CEO, Realtime
Enterprises, +1-914-734-1768, Web site:
http://www.realtimeenterprises.com/ http://www.demo.com/
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