Amadeus, With American Express, Breaks New Ground With Corporate Travel Consultancy Services for SAP Travel Management System.Business/High-Tech Editors, Travel Writers MADRID, Spain & London--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 3, 2000 Amadeus launches unique Travel Agency Certification Program, set to revolutionize rev·o·lu·tion·ize tr.v. rev·o·lu·tion·ized, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·ing, rev·o·lu·tion·iz·es 1. To bring about a radical change in: Television has revolutionized news coverage. 2. the corporate travel market Amadeus, a leading travel global distribution system (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ) and technology provider, today announced the first partnership to support SAP's R/3 Travel Management system under its Travel Agency Certification Program, with American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Corporate Services Activities that combine or consolidate certain enterprise-wide needed support services, provided based on specialized knowledge, best practices, and technology to serve internal (and sometimes external) customers and business partners. , the world's leading travel management company. American Express Corporate Services is the first travel management company certified by Amadeus for SAP Travel Management, enabling American Express to deliver implementation programs for the SAP Travel Planning module (jointly developed by Amadeus and SAP), as well as to manage the process within SAP's total travel management solution. Amadeus has already trained and certified American Express travel consultants in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , United Kingdom, Germany, France and Scandinavia, with other countries to follow in the near future. Travel agents certified by Amadeus are selected on the basis that they are skilled in customer support, quality control, travel information management, travel policy maintenance and ongoing process redesign. The five-day certification program ensures selected agents are qualified to support their corporate customers in building and maintaining their corporate travel policy on the SAP/R3 system. "Amadeus has created this innovative program to help certified agencies better serve their corporate customers by expanding their knowledge and expertise of SAP Travel Management," said Ian Wheeler, Amadeus Vice President of Travel Agency Partners. "This is the first program of its kind and we expect our certification and training to become the industry standard." Olivier Sauser, Vice President, Consulting Services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" Group, American Express, said, "We are delighted to be the first agency to be certified by Amadeus as a provider of Corporate Travel Consultancy Services on the SAP Travel Management System. We have considerable experience in offering corporations interactive travel technology and advising them on ways to improve their processes associated with travel management. We look forward to enhancing our services to clients as a result of this partnership." Notes to Editors Amadeus Global Travel Distribution Amadeus, with U.S. headquarters in Miami, Florida “Miami” redirects here. For the Native American tribe, see Miami tribe. Miami is a major city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County. Miami is a gamma world city with an estimated population of 404,048. , is a leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider serving the marketing, sales and distribution needs of the world's travel and tourism industries. Worldwide, Amadeus is chosen by more travel agency locations, receives more billable bookings, and processes more international travel reservations than any other GDS. Its comprehensive data network and database, amongst the largest of their kind in Europe, serve over 48,400 travel agency locations and some 8,200 airline sales offices worldwide. Through the Amadeus system, travel agencies and airline offices are able to make bookings with over 500 airlines, representing more than 95 per cent of the world's scheduled airline seats. The system also provides access to over 51,000 hotels, 48 car rental companies serving 23,500 locations, as well as serving newer provider groups, including ferry, rail, cruise, insurance and tour operators. Amadeus is a significant provider of information technology and an enabler of e-commerce for the travel industry. Amadeus also delivers the powerful booking engine behind the web pages of more than 3,000 travel agencies, and around 90 Web sites serving 28 airlines. Additionally, it provides similar e-commerce solutions for partners including BTopenworld (UK and Ireland), Gruppo L'Espresso (Italy) and Terra Lycos (Spain, Portugal and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. ) Founded in 1987, and fully operational from 1992, Amadeus is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Its data centre is in Erding (near Munich), Germany and its development offices are located in Sophia Antipolis Sophia Antipolis is a technology park northwest of Antibes and southwest of Nice, France. Much of the park falls within the commune of Valbonne. Created in 1970~84, it houses primarily companies in the fields of computing, electronics, pharmacology and biotechnology. (near Nice), France. The company has some 3,000 employees worldwide, including 750 in the U.S. More information about Amadeus is available at www.global.amadeus.net American Express Corporate Services American Express Corporate Services which includes the American Express Corporate Card, Corporate Travel and Corporate Purchasing Card A Purchasing Card is a form of company credit card that allows goods and services to be procured without utilising a traditional purchasing process. Purchasing Cards are usually issued to employees who are required to operate within a set of company rules and guidelines which , provides global Expense Management programmes to two thirds of The Times' Top 100 Companies such as Astra, ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s , Electrolux, Hoechst, Philips and Siemens. American Express Expense Management Programmes can generate significant bottom line savings on a wide range of indirect business costs. American Express' Corporate Services Interactive group provides organisations with improved T & E Expense Management solutions in the digital marketplace, via its core strategies in : -- eServicing, -- ePurchasing -- and ePayment American Express Corporate Services are uniquely placed to help businesses develop web-based T&E management solutions and automated products and services to help companies control T&E and purchasing costs. Corporate Services includes: -- Corporate Card - a convenient, flexible payment tool for business travellers Business Traveller is a CNN International monthly television program hosted by Richard Quest.
Management Programme will drive down 70% on policy and process costs and 25% on purchasing costs for indirect goods and services -- Corporate Travel - offers clients a range of service delivery solutions tailored to their individual needs, and a full range of travel services and products for traveller and travel-manager alike. -- Corporate Purchasing Card - offers a paperless payment system that cuts the high administrative costs administrative costs, n.pl the overhead expenses incurred in the operation of a dental benefits program, excluding costs of dental services provided. associated with processing office purchases. The programme can achieve savings of up to 95% on process costs and 20% on purchasing costs for everyday goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . -- American Express Consulting Services - As part of Corporate Services, the Consulting Services team offers consulting services to organisations to deliver customised solutions that enable them to maximise their T&E expense management budgets. The Consulting Services team comprises of professionals with expertise in procurement, e-commerce and process re-engineering. The Consulting Services Group applies leading-edge business consulting models, expense management solutions and best practice expertise within organisations to meet their individual needs and drive savings to benefit their bottom line. American Express Corporate Services is a unit of American Express Travel Related Services Company Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The American Express Company -- a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards, travellers cheques, travel, financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against , investment products, insurance and international banking. For information on its full range of products and services, please visit the website: www.americanexpress.com/corporateservices. About SAP Travel Management The SAP Travel Management solution comprises the SAP Travel Planning application, co-developed with Amadeus, and the SAP Travel Accounting application. This total travel management solution -- SAP Travel Management -- is the world's first integrated, end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that incorporates all processes of business travel from trip planning to travel accounting. As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. economy. mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet to work smarter, better and faster by optimizing supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value. SAP is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. and NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SAP." The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com. |
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