PROS FastSearchPower sub-second shopping at lower costs

T E C H N I C A L B R O C H U R E

The passenger airline industry is undergoing a dramatic shift, as it looks for new opportunities to increase brand loyalty and deliver personalized, frictionless buying experiences and offers to customers. As online and mobile become the first and only source for travel offers and pricing, airlines are looking for ways to differentiate their online experience.

PROS FastSearch is a shopping engine that delivers sub-second response times without creating taxing transactions. PROS FastSearch powers shopping applications such as maps, calendars, banners and flexible search menus to search by budget, affinity, month and more in order to empower airlines, online travel agencies, and metasearch engines to open up rich customer experiences.

46%Of travelers make their trip decisions

on mobile

88%Of travelers will switch

applications or sites if the current one isn’t meeting

their needs

38 Sites visited before

booking a trip

90Airlines expected to adopt IATA’s NDC

by 2020

The benefits of sub-second performance:

• Results in the blink of an eye.

• Offers unique, open-ended search experience.

• Reduces the airfare search costs with non-transactional business model.

• Highly customizable product setup by the customer in a user-friendly web administration interface.

• Integrates with any host, GDS or internet booking engine.

• Accurate and complete results.

TRAVEL

Precomputed shopping technology Map driven shopping

Imagine how frequently data changes in the airline industry. Refreshing prices has meant costly transactions and limited creativity. FastSearch helps airlines and agencies deliver a shopping experience that removes all the clutter and enables a simple, easy shopping experience based on the traveler’s perspective.

Today’s traveler wants a different shopping experience. They may not start with a destination in mind. Render map driven shopping that makes it easy for the traveler to visualize the offers and the potential experiences.

PROS FastSearch

Power a modern commerce experience throughout online and mobile channels!

TRAVEL

Year-round Calendar Displays Promote Top Deals

Time is the new currency. Travelers are looking for ways to better manager what little they have. Power year-round calendar displays with FastSearch to show them what options are available when. Now your travelers can easily select the best experience for them during that small window of time they have available.

With FastSearch, you can ensure travelers receive specific information that allows you to promote top deals that they can actually book. Airlines and travel agencies can achieve operational efficiency by having the freedom and control to define which short and long tail markets to replace within a live search model.

Deliver a Great Shopping Experience without Expensive Transactions and Look-to-book Ratios

TRAVEL

About PROSPROS is a cloud software company powering the shift to modern commerce by helping companies create personalized and frictionless buying experiences for their customers. Fueled by dynamic pricing science and machine learning, PROS solutions make it possible for companies to price, configure and sell their products and services in an omnichannel environment with speed, precision and consistency. Our customers, who are leaders in their markets, benefit from decades of data science expertise infused into our industry solutions.

To learn more, visit pros.com/solutions/revenue-pro/air-shopping

Contact PROSFor more information on this or any of our products, please contact PROS at: PROS.com or call 1-855-846-0641To learn more, visit pros.com. ©2017 PROS, Inc. All rights reserved.

KEY FEATURES• Flexible and easily modifiable

environment predefined by the customer: O&D combinations, Days in advance per O&D, Lengths of stay per O&D, Carriers per O&D.

• Sub-second response times for queries to the FastSearch environment.

• Content aggregation – full data content within a single platform (seat availability, IATA taxes, OAG schedules, YQ/YR taxes, ATPCo fares).

• Significantly higher bookability and price accuracy of the results compared to the traditional cache method.

PROS CLOUD• Full application service

management and SLA. • Tier 3, SOC 2 data centers.• High performance and

availability.• ISO 27001• Industry standard firewalls and

intrusion detection/prevention.• Continuous internal vulnerability

assessments coupled with 3rd party vulnerability assessments.

• All customer instances and data logically isolated.

• Enterprise change management program including security patching on all systems.

INTEGRATIONS• Different API formats:

JSON, NDC.• Can be integrated with any

reservation system, IBE or GDS.

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