Sabre Travel Network Celebrates Third Year with Agresso; Relationship Launched Sabre Central Command, the Industry-First Busines
August 08 2005 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings (NYSE:TSG) company, is
celebrating the third anniversary of its relationship with Agresso,
an international developer and distributor of secure e-business
solutions. Together Sabre and Agresso developed Sabre Central
Command, the travel industry's first fully integrated end-to-end
business information system for travel agencies. Sabre Central
Command helps agencies of all types, including consolidators,
general agents and corporate travel agencies, reconcile travel
financial information, reduce cost per transaction and improve
business performance. Sabre Central Command provides financial
applications that give travel management companies unparalleled
capabilities to measure, understand, monitor and manage their
business. Available on-site or as an application service provider
(ASP) solution, Sabre Central Command is adaptable to a variety of
applications, from small to large implementations. Sabre Central
Command is easily scalable and grows with its environment. Picasso
Travel began using Sabre Central Command as an ASP solution over a
year ago, but quickly grew large enough to warrant an on-site
installation to take advantage of further integrated reporting and
local data management. "Growth is a good thing, but as we grow, so
does our need for efficient back-office support," said Eren Aksoy,
vice president, Picasso Travel. "We found that Sabre Central
Command provides the scalability and flexibility to meet our
changing business needs." Built on input from the end users, Sabre
Central Command provides additional cost savings and improved
productivity through streamlined back-office procedures and
automated reporting. Moreover, by automating back-office functions,
agents are available to spend more time with customers. "Sabre
Central Command continues to receive high marks from our agency
customers," said Chris Kroeger, senior vice president, Sabre Travel
Network, North America. "We're finding over and over again that
agencies appreciate a seamless back-office solution that helps
their businesses run smoothly while they attend to the needs of
their customers. As we have done so successfully over the last
three years, we will continue to partner with Agresso in providing
business solutions that help agencies operate more efficiently and
effortlessly." The system has proven results, including an
installation with Adelman Travel Group, ranked among the top 30
U.S. travel management companies. Currently serving a broad range
of customers from corporate travel and meetings to leisure travel,
Adelman processed more than 350,000 air transactions in 2004.
"Dealing primarily with corporate customers, we want to focus on
our relationships, not our back-office processes," said Amy Skaar,
controller, Adelman Travel Group. "By adopting Sabre Central
Command to manage our business information, Adelman Travel realized
considerable savings over our old back office system, as well as
increased productivity, in our first year using the application."
Skaar continued, "I am very satisfied with the efficiencies Sabre
Central Command has been able to provide to Adelman Travel. As a
growth-oriented organization, the ability to make timely decisions
is paramount to success. We are constantly developing new
parameters for measuring the success of our operations, and Sabre
Central Command has been able to easily adapt to those changes. We
are light years ahead of where we were before, and I envision this
experience continuing." Agresso Chief Operating Officer Ab van
Marion, said, "It has been a busy three years since we first
partnered with Sabre Travel Network to create a state-of-the-art
back-office solution for travel agencies. Thanks in large part to
the industry insight of our partner, we've been able to achieve
rapid adoption for both on-site and hosted solutions. We are proud
of our relationship with Sabre, and look forward to many more years
of leading innovation in business solutions for the travel
industry." Agresso develops and distributes highly flexible,
integrated business information and management systems worldwide,
offering a complete solution for finance, project accounting,
purchasing, human resources and payroll, plus web, e-commerce and
mobile capabilities. The solutions provide people-centric
organizations with easy access to all the critical information they
need to analyze, manage and plan their resources. About Sabre
Travel Network Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company,
provides access to the world's leading global distribution system
(GDS) enabling agents at more than 50,000 agency locations
worldwide to be travel experts. The Sabre GDS, the first system to
connect the buyers and sellers of travel, today includes more than
400 airlines, approximately 60,000 hotels, 32 car rental companies,
nine cruise lines, 35 railroads and 220 tour operators. Key brands
of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, the leading Web-based
corporate travel reservation technology, and Jurni Network, the
unique leisure travel agency consortium that enables members to
sell more products from preferred travel suppliers using
sophisticated market intelligence. Sabre Holdings Corporation
(NYSE:TSG) is a world leader in travel commerce, retailing travel
products and providing distribution and technology solutions for
the travel industry. More information about Sabre Holdings is
available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com. Sabre Travel Network
and Sabre Central Command are trademarks and/or service marks of
Sabre Holdings Corporation. All other trademarks, service marks,
and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
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