Travelport buys G2 assets
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Travelport GDS has acquired some of a G2 SwitchWorks software assets and intellectual property which it plans to use to develop a future agent desktop solution.
“With today’s announcement, Travelport has taken another significant step towards the creation of the industry’s first comprehensive, fully-integrated agency desktop,” said Gordon Wilson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Travelport.
“Our customers require the seamless integration of selling and merchandising programmes, improved workflow, process automation and content aggregation. Integrating the G2 technology into our existing plans will accelerate Travelport’s delivery of what we believe will be an industry leading capability.”
Travelport intends to use Kestrel, the G2 web service core, and associated tools as key elements in the development of a new unified, travel agent desktop solution, expected to be released in early 2009.
This new Travelport solution will incorporate, build upon and ultimately replace the company’s current agent point of sale products – FocalPoint/ViewPoint from Galileo and Go! from Worldspan.
Developed over the past year by G2 SwitchWorks, Kestrel provides a “point-and-click” point-of- sale solution that enables agents to search for and book travel content across multiple sources including the GDSs.
It also allows agents to manage data-rich traveller profiles outside the GDS, enabling precise targeting of customer-specific offers, upgrades and incentives.
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