Abacus Takes Delivery of AutoLink -- STRIDE Ticket Sales Reporting System.NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1999-- Abacus International, the largest GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards serving Asia, has taken delivery of its new online STRIDE travel agency ticket sales reporting system from The Eastman Group Inc. (TEG teg also tegg n. A sheep in its second year or before its first shearing. [Origin unknown.] Noun 1. teg - two-year-old sheep lamb - young sheep ) of Newport Beach. Housed in new facilities in Singapore, STRIDE enables the subscribing travel agencies to query the Abacus system The abacus system of mental calculation is a system where users mentally visualize an abacus to do calculations. No physical abacus is used; only the answers are written down. This system is being propagated in China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Japan. for real-time ticket sales status and reporting of data submitted to their respective airline bank settlement plans. STRIDE is an acronym acronym: see abbreviation. A word typically made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. for Subscriber Transaction Reporting Information and Data Environment System. Implemented on TEG's proprietary AutoLink travel industry microcomputer microcomputer Small digital computers whose CPU is contained on a single integrated semiconductor chip. As large-scale and then very large-scale integration (VLSI) have progressively increased the number of transistors that can be placed on one chip, the processing capacity network platform, STRIDE is designed to accept 60,000 ticket transactions per day seven days a week. The ticket data capture period of the 60,000 transactions is compressed into two, two-hour periods each day. The system also handles up to 8,000 different travel agency sites served by 13 different Abacus National Marketing Companies from Iran to Taiwan. Each agency typically makes up to 10 report requests per day. Post-dated ticket data is available for display up to 15 days after ticketing, with archival information maintained indefinitely by Abacus. Reports are returned to agents via E-mail, ALC (Assembly Language Coding) A generic term for IBM mainframe assembly languages. 1. ALC - Assembly Language Compiler. 2. ALC - Airline Line Control. printer and Web access at their request. STRIDE was implemented by ABACUS after it signed a multi-million dollar joint-venture alliance with The Sabre Group. ABACUS provides comprehensive GDS/CRS services, which include global travel-related information and efficient agency front and back-office systems, marketed through their 13 National Marketing Companies. The ABACUS system allows travel agents to book and gain access to information on hundreds of airlines, hotels and car rental companies worldwide. STRIDE is the newest addition to the Abacus group of products and services. STRIDE is an adaptation of TEG's AutoLink software "engine." Using AutoLink's Rapid Application Development platform for the STRIDE project, TEG was able to build the ticket reporting system prototype specified by Abacus within a four-month period. AutoLink is based on an interactive microcomputer network providing a real time cross-platform e-commerce environment. The AutoLink product uses object-based modules to effect high speed transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. through airline and other travel industry mainframe inventory and information systems. AutoLink STRIDE is one of several AutoLink travel industry solutions for airlines, tour operators, and travel agencies and/or travel consortiums. AutoLink is available as a TEG operated Service Center or can be individually licensed. |
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