Sometimes you see a blogger hit a tone that swings. one is such is the latest work from Sabre Geek. He was already writing good stuff – Corporate Blogging and what does it mean – from the perspective of a “civilian’ – by that i mean not a professional commentator or software vendor or silicon valley time. this is blogging from the IT heartland, encouraged by the chaps at Sun Microsystems. Looks like Tim is getting things done.
but i really like this post, on Balancing Travel and Technology.
maybe these travel agents would not be so backwards if you had more open APIs? i am thinking of amazon message queueing and so on, google APIs. Are your GDS API visible enough, easy enough to develop to? Travelocity shd be in the game.
One potential role for the blog Gary- beginning a dialogue between travel agents, developers and your organization about what web services you could publish that would best support new business models? Is there a breakout opportunity here for Sabre, Worldspan, Galileo, or Amadeus? Sabre as an Architecture of Participation? Sabre as an engine for Semantic, rather just financial and logisitical, transations? Semantic Transactions i mean those that generate metadata. do you/could you feed back information to travel agents about what Sabre is being used for most at any given time? Popular destinations? Most common layovers? Stuff like that? That might increase demand for your available services. Or have i misunderstood how these GDS engines work? Maybe the log files in TPF are not amenable to something like this – but with the new Eclipse-based c++ tooling. Could you strip out some metadata using that to maybe populate a database more amenable to querying? John Fowler might even help you with some AMD boxes… but then again your data volumes are just stupidly big.
Back to the post though – travel agents not attending the technology session. reminds me of goiing to Microsoft PDC and attending manageability and security sessions – tumbleweed. The Avalon next generation UI , drizzle rendering animated 3d forms eye candy digital pen integration session next door on the other hand was absolutely packed. people sitting outside ten deep. ithe sessions at the travel conference on creating glossier catalogs were probably packed… 😉
i look forward to more great questions, and seeing how blogging goes in Sabre. I hope you don’t mind me recommending my business partners blogs 101 as something you could use to help folks get started. And let us know if we can help with anything.
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