Clerk wants to bring the wonders of the cloud to hotels
TLabs Showcase on travel startups featuring Chile-based Clerk, a cloud-based technology platform for small and medium-size hotels. Who and what are you (including personnel and backgrounds)? Clerk,...
View ArticleHP storms ahead with airline cloud services as Interjet trains pilots
Airline reservations systems and IT providers are hustling to bring everything from PCI compliance to printing at the airport into the cloud and, along those lines, HP Enterprise Services introduced HP...
View ArticleHow a storm in the cloud brought Room 77 and other websites back down to earth
Last week, hotel booking service Room 77 was knocked offline in a mammoth cloud-computing outage that also crashed the websites of dozens of companies. Some very big players, too, such as Yelp, due to...
View ArticleAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud hiccup takes down Airbnb, Foursquare, and other...
Many digital companies, including travel startups like Airbnb and Foursquare, have been knocked offline for hours during the business day today. The startups rely on web hosting and data services that...
View ArticleThere is a lot more to The Cloud than just a fancy data center
I was catching up on RSS today and read a piece by Alex Bainbridge on Tnooz about the Top Eight Travel Industry Battles. A good article overall, but battle #3 jumped out at me and I guess I’m ready to...
View ArticleA tech reality: If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance...
Managing change is hard. Many companies and even whole industries have been blind-sided by new entrants who are empowered by technology and changing consumer behavior rather than old business models...
View ArticleThe cloud and mobile – an unhappy marriage despite early promise of love and...
The so-called cloud and mobile should be a shining example of a marriage made in heaven, blessed by the gods and beloved by all. For years we have been hearing that THIS is the year for mobile in...
View ArticleSoftware-as-a-Service (SaaS) – growing, but leagues behind packaged tools...
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) was probably the Big Data of the early-2000s – at term bounded about to describe a concept which actually had its roots going back decades. In short, SaaS is a cover-all...
View ArticleBack to school with Big Data – how the web defines it
SYSTEMS: Ask five people to outline what they think “Big Data” is and you may well get five different answers, such is either the confusion or fluid nature of what the concept actually is. Perhaps...
View ArticleHow an airport took a deep breath and axed 200 servers
SYSTEMS: Moving to the cloud, as the saying goes, is an enormous step for any type of organisation, let alone one as complex as one of the busiest airports in Europe. But this is what London Gatwick...
View ArticleSYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – May 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in May 2013. Thursday 30 May 2013: InterGlobe Technology Quotient (ITQ) has announced Travelport...
View ArticleKnow your SaaS from your PaaS from your IaaS [INFOGRAPHIC]
There’s been so much talk about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) in recent years that stalwarts Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service rarely get a look in. Whilst Salesforce.com, arguably...
View ArticleSYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – June 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in June 2013. Thursday 27 June 2013: Mobikon Asia has launched a restaurant table reservation portal...
View ArticleHold that thought about Big Data in travel – what about Little Data?
NB: This is a viewpoint by Michael De Boer, strategic marketing director of Boelter+Lincoln. While the caging of Big Data by business and government is everywhere in the news lately, it is the use of...
View ArticleSYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – July 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in July 2013. Sunday 7 July 2013: ARINC grabs EgyptAir as customer for check-in support services. The...
View ArticleAdmit it – true innovation in travel is a bit of myth
NB: This is a viewpoint from Dmitry Bagrov, managing director at DataArt. Different sources give slightly various definitions for “innovation”, but all of them agree that it is something new that is...
View ArticlePrescriptive versus predictive: An IBMer’s guide to advanced data analytics...
NB: This is a guest perspective from Vivian Braun, Distribution Sector Lead for Business Analytics, EMEA, for IBM. Organisations’ Big Data journey: it’s the analysis, silly Travel companies rarely...
View ArticleConcur steps closer to Perfect Trip, reveals further investments
Concur has revealed a raft of new investments which are part of its $150m Perfect Trip fund. On Tuesday, Yapta announced it had received $4.2m in a funding round led by Concur with the company today...
View ArticleSYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – August 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in August 2013. Monday 5 August 2013: In an effort to grow organically by keeping the costs down,...
View ArticleTravel SYSTEMS – Product news, launches and more – September 2013
The latest systems news, launches and more from around the travel, tourism and hospitality industry in September 2013. Monday 9 September 2013: Karibu Travel signs technology agreement with Travelport....
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