Sabre Teams Up with Ignite Technologies to Meet Growing Global Workforce Demands
January 22 2007 - 6:01AM
Business Wire
Ignite Technologies, Inc., a leader in providing secure and
scalable Content Delivery Solutions, announced today its solution
is helping to transform business communications and operations
throughout Sabre Holdings� growing and widely dispersed global
workforce. Sabre deployed the Ignite Content Delivery Solution in
April 2006 on approximately 6,000 desktops and laptops worldwide.
Since that time, Sabre has realized savings and measurable
improvement for effective delivery of rich media for corporate
communications such as executive video broadcasts and for software
delivery including applications and security patches. �Our employee
makeup has changed dramatically in the past few years. As recently
as 2002, only 16 percent of our team worked outside the United
States; today more than 50 percent of employees are outside the
US,� said Todd Pickett, regional service delivery manager,
Americas, Sabre Holdings. �Mergers and acquisitions during the past
couple years have made us reconsider our communications business
model. We need the ability to easily and effectively distribute
content to a global workforce networked through varied Internet
connections and bandwidths. The Ignite Content Delivery Solution
enables us to reach our global employee base online or offline and
deliver rich multimedia communications or IT software content
without network congestion.� From September through December 2006,
Sabre has distributed more than 128,000 deliveries � 615 Gigabytes
of content � consisting of executive videos, earnings reports,
surveys, training manuals, general internal corporate
communications, software and security patches. Reporting and
analytics indicate a significant increase in viewing the media rich
corporate communications. This increased viewership is attributed
to Ignite�s technology which enables employees to view the
TV-quality video full screen, without buffering or launching
special media players, both online and offline. In addition to
corporate communications and training departments, Sabre�s
information technology department also uses Ignite�s technology to
deliver software applications, updates, and security patches as
well as perform computer and software inventory checks. Significant
labor cost savings result from minimizing the time needed for
creation of new employee desktop environments and by cutting the
time it takes to deliver software applications from weeks to just
minutes. For example, a critical software patch sent to over 4,000
workstations had an average delivery time of seven minutes, a
remarkable improvement over the previous three-week long delivery
window. �Content delivery networks have had a lot of play in the
press, but most solutions have been focused on the needs of
internet service providers -- not the needs of the enterprise,"
said Melissa Webster, Program Director at IDC. "Enterprises have
very different needs. They need to push secure content to
employees, partners, and customers according to role and
well-defined privileges, and they need to be able to track and
measure usage -- especially when some of the content they push
touches on compliance. Having a single platform that can push all
types of content to employee desktops -- from executive video
messages to software applications -- is a sensible business
practice." About Sabre Holdings Sabre Holdings connects people with
the world's greatest travel possibilities by retailing travel
products and providing distribution and technology solutions for
the travel industry. Sabre Holdings supports travelers, travel
agents, corporations and travel suppliers through its companies:
Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre Airline Solutions.
Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, the company has approximately
9,000 employees in 45 countries. Full year 2005 revenues totaled
$2.5 billion. Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company, is traded on
the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TSG. About Ignite
Technologies, Inc. Ignite Technologies, privately held and
headquartered in Frisco, Texas, provides the industry�s most secure
and scalable Content Delivery Solution enabling customers to
efficiently publish, deliver and manage digital assets � from rich
media content for communications and training to software patches
and virus updates � to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Ignite's
patented Content Delivery Solution overcomes network and
connectivity constraints that have limited the ability to reach
online audiences with the highest quality, secure rich media.
Ignite's Solution has been deployed across hundreds of thousands of
users around the globe at companies like Accenture, BearingPoint,
Sabre, and Proctor & Gamble. For more information, visit
www.ignitetech.com. For Additional Information Contact: Ignite and
the Ignite logo, Ignite Delivery Platform and Ignite Delivery
Center are registered trademarks of Ignite Technologies, Inc. All
other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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