cathy cannon director, technical sales and solutions create solutions with cutting- edge tools
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Cathy Cannon
Director, Technical Sales and Solutions
Create Solutions with Cutting-Edge tools
Technology Trends & Open Platforms
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Developer Friendly
Web Service Enabled
API powered platforms
Marketplace Situation
• Travel application users and developers need to utilise multiple websites, API’s and other content sources in order to access travel content, functionality and pricing to meet traveller needs
• Maintaining multiple API connections is laborious, time consuming, difficult and expensive
• Some travel content is not available through API’s today
Difficult for travel suppliers to
distribute and for developers and
travel agencies to access and
manage
Evolving to a new model with ancillary
services
Fragmented
& Complex
Travel Content
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Our research confirms the value that uAPI represents to our customers trying to simplify their content management
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Architectural Overview
e.g. hotels/ meta search
Travelport Universal API
UniversalDesktop
Traversa ViewTrip
Rail Content Hub
Multi GDSAIR, CAR, HTL
Future content hubs
Air ContentHub
Merchandising Hub
OTA’s & Travel Agents
Software developers
Corporate & Multi
National
Standalone API Customers Travelport Points of Sale
Direct connect to rail suppliers
Air content including LCC
Unbundled Services
Supports individual GDS
messages
Encapsulated business logic
messagingUniversal Record Universal Profile
Multiple content sources
Key
Current
Future
Travelport Booking App for
SouthWest
SmartpointProfessional
Service
Travelport Options
Integrator
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Rich functionality via normalised API direct connects – including support for ancillary services
Direct Connect to support airline merchandising needs
Flag carrier direct connect & support for Air Canada Tango fares & merchandisingGrowth of Ancillary Services & ATPCO support
A Growing Selection of Airline Content*
Today Coming Soon…..
* Availability varies by point of sale
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Shop, price, book, retrieve, cancel and modify
More Rail, Hotel services globally
A Growing Selection of Rail* & Hotel Content
Today Coming Soon…..
* Availability varies by point of sale
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Short term roadmap
V1.3 & v1.4 – H1 2011
• Various functional enhancements – Air, Car, Hotel, Universal Record
V1.5 – August 2011
• Maintenance Release
• United seats / BA seats beta
• Support for Jet2 OLCI
• Support GOV fares and PNR FOP for SouthWest
V2 – November
2011
• Air Canada• ATPCO
Merchandising Content
• Southwest Cancel / Modify
• Apollo queues enhancements
• Numerous other enhancements
V2.1 – Q2 2012
• Hospitality focus• Hotel Content
from Travelport Rooms and More BETA
• Enhanced GDS hotel functionality