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January 28, 2022
Sabre chose Bigtable and Cloud Spanner to serve more than 1 billion travelers annually
by Andrew Gasparovic Sabre processes more than 12 billion shopping requests and serves over 1 billion travelers every year. Through our next generation of AI-powered solutions, we are focused on optimizing the retailing, distribution, and fulfillment...
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October 7, 2020
Offer Management – Optimizing Airline Ancillary Bundles Based on Customer Preferences Part 3 of 3: Experimentation Engines
This article is the final of a three-part series on optimizing airline ancillary bundles based on customer preferences. In Part 1, we discussed data collection and customer segmentation methods. In Part 2, we met traveler Caroline...
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March 30, 2020
Offer Management – Optimizing Airline Ancillary Bundles Based on Customer Preferences Part 2 of 3: Recommendation and offer engines
This article is the second of a three-part series on optimizing airline ancillary bundles based on customer preferences. Part one discussed data collection and customer segmentation methods. In this section, we will cover recommendation and offer...
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March 13, 2020
Offer Management – Optimizing Airline Ancillary Bundles Based on Customer Preferences Part 1 of 3: Data collection and customer segmentation
Offer management is the process of selling the right bundle – airfare and air ancillaries – to the right customer at the right price at the right time. It is an extension of the well-established revenue...
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January 16, 2020
How Sabre is using AI/ML to change the technology of travel – Part 2
At Sabre, as we evaluate new opportunities for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, we realize that a fundamental challenge that needs to be addressed is how to scale this specialized knowledge across...
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January 16, 2020
How Sabre is using AI/ML to change the technology of travel – Part 1
After the deregulation of the airline industry in 1979, Sabre has played a pivotal role in enabling all aspects of a consumer’s travel by leveraging our core competencies in operations research, computer science and advanced data...
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January 16, 2020
Microservices at Scale: Three Lessons and Two Predictions
Searching for flights is a famously hard problem in computer science, and it is only getting harder. Five years ago, there were about 5 billion possible combinations for a flight from New York to London. That...
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January 24, 2017
Satellites, sensors, storms: ‘connected intelligence’ improves travel
Space has a new weather satellite This week, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) released the first images from its new weather satellite, GEOS-16. With more than 4,000 man-made satellites in orbit, one more might seem...
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January 20, 2017
2017 is the year to try digital realities
With many new technologies, a few words are sufficient to explain the change: more pixels, wireless charging, faster Internet. But digital realities (virtual, augmented, and merged reality) are inherently about immersion and sensory engagement. These visceral...
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November 16, 2016
Actionable: 5 technologies that will absolutely impact your business in 2017
Strategizing for the future requires an understanding of the technology trends driving the travel industry. But technology is moving so quickly, just trying to keep up with trends – much less analyze their impact on travel...
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October 10, 2016
Wearables provide early warning for corporate travel burnout
Your most productive corporate road warriors don’t tell you when they’re burning out. They’ll soldier through the cramped flights, the two-star airport hotels, the rental car lots, the fast-food meals between meetings and the hurried calls...
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September 7, 2016
The breakthrough magic of driverless cars isn’t urban. It’s regional!
Mark McSpadden is the Director of Sabre Labs, the internal innovation incubator that explores new and emerging technology and trends in travel. Regional travel is a significant opportunity for driverless cars. Autonomous vehicles are not only...