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New Distribution Capability (NDC) for Airlines: Key Providers and Implementation Scenarios

Altexsoft

Today, airlines still use third parties for their flight distribution. Although some airlines strive to inspire loyalty in their customers and encourage them to buy tickets directly from their sites, it can hardly be a working scheme for every airline. What NDC is and how airlines can benefit from adopting it.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

Image Credits: Brex Brex opted not to accept commissions from airlines or hotels that would not provide more expensive flights or hotels as alternatives, Dubugras said. It also does things like let an employee know if something is out of policy and would need extra approval.

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Report: Technical Debt is Costing You More Than You Think

OverOps

The most obvious contributing factor in this are those massive application failures that become public relations fiascos for companies like Wells Fargo, United Airlines and their friends. In the industry as a whole, poor quality software in the US cost an estimated $2.84 TRILLION in 2018. So What Can We Do?

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3 common pitfalls in microservice integration — and how to avoid them

Bernd Rucker

Microservices are all the rage. So, microservices are about scaling your development force while maintaining high agility and a rapid development pace. So, microservices are about scaling your development force while maintaining high agility and a rapid development pace. In a nutshell, you decompose a system into microservices.

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline).

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Fail fast is not enough!

Bernd Rucker

This blog post digs deeper into one aspect of the 3 common pitfalls in microservice integration? —?an When I got the check-in invitation I went to the website of the airline, selected my seat, and hit the button to retrieve my boarding pass. but this time the airline even gave me the work instructions: I personally had to do the retry.