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August 13, 2010 Sabre Travel Network and Cisco are planning to create a telepresence distribution and reservation platform, "enabling agencies and corporations to book services from any telepresence provider and any point of sale," the companies announced. "Users will be able to view room availability in real time, book meetings and review applicable rates and restrictions. Public telepresence providers and private corporations will have the ability to provide open or restricted access to their rooms through the platform." August 13, 2010 Total U.S. travel agency air transactions processed through ARC in July rose 3 percent, the smallest year-over-year increase in 10 months. Total sales jumped 14 percent to $6.5 billion. August 11, 2010 Expense management firm Databasics partnered with reservation processing and reporting provider Cornerstone Information Systems to enable "customers with multiple travel providers to capture booked data from multiple sources in their expense reporting system." August 11, 2010 Canada's Vision 2000 Travel Group will offer clients reporting and benchmarking tools from Prime Numbers Technology, the companies announced. "It's a significant milestone to have the largest independent travel management company in Canada using our product," according to Rock Blanco, president of Prime Numbers, which markets its solutions under the Travel GPA brand. August 11, 2010 Airline standards body Open Axis said Frontier Airlines joined the organization as a full member, along with new allied members Everbread, Guestlogix, Navitaire, Traveldata of Japan, Tripit, Vayant Technologies and Ypsilon.net AG. Open Axis launched in July to advocate for XML "as the optimal electronic messaging structure for airline system connectivity used in content distribution." August 11, 2010 Travelocity Business announced a "proprietary dashboard reporting solution" allowing clients to analyze a variety of metrics including adoption rates, travel spend by business unit, lost savings and unused tickets. August 11, 2010 TRX enabled its Correx reservation processing tool to interact with such third-party travel applications as online booking systems and agent desktops. The integration, for "unused e-ticket tracking, schedule change processing or auto-ticketing," eliminates the need to "queue" passenger name records through global distribution systems, "thereby reducing overall processing times and improving reservation quality," TRX announced. August 11, 2010 Conducive Technology Corp. partnered with Mobiata to create itinerary "monitoring, viewing and messaging services" for travel agencies using its FlightStats flight and itinerary monitoring solution. Part of Conducive's Agent Advantage suite and due for release this year, the new services also use Mobiata's TripDeck mobile app to give "corporate travel management companies the ability to deliver branded itinerary information and real-time service updates directly to the traveler via the TripDeck mobile application installed on the travelers mobile phone," the companies announced. FlightStats is widely used for flight status information and ontime performance data. August 10, 2010 Orbitz for Business partnered to integrate travel data with IBM's Global Expense Reporting Solution. IBM separately uses corporate booking systems and support from Orbitz and Travelport for internal travel. August 10, 2010 Travel Leaders Corporate signed a deal with AirPlus International to offer a co-branded MasterCard program to corporations. August 10, 2010 The Association of Corporate Travel Executives said it would hold its spring education conference in New York City April 10-12 at the Marriott Marquis. August 10, 2010 US Bank introduced an expense management tool for midsize companies in the United States and Canada. Developed with Visa Inc. and pilot tested by customers this spring, the Web-based tool was released in 15 languages to support multinational customers. August 10, 2010 The National Business Travel Association acquired full ownership of The Masters Program conference, held annually in Washington, D.C. in February. NBTA also said it partnered with Amadeus to secure former General Electric chairman Jack Welch as a speaker for the 2011 Masters Program event.
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