e-Travel Helps Delta Air Lines Mind Its Own Business; Enterprise Travel Management Leader Provides Technology For Delta's MYOBTravel Small Business Web Site.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 Access to managed travel technology is not limited to just large corporations. e-Travel, Inc., the leading provider of hosted technology services for Enterprise Travel Management (ETM (database) ETM - An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe. ), today announced that through a joint effort with Delta Air Lines (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DAL), small businesses can now utilize e-Travel technology on Delta's MYOBTravel(SM) web site (http://www.myobtravel.com) to manage their travel programs. e-Travel developed the online booking engine for this new site, which provides small businesses with online access to book complete domestic and international itineraries, including air, car and hotel. "The small business market is the fastest-growing segment within the U.S., spending billions of dollars in travel annually," said Steve Scheper, Delta's managing director for e-business. "e-Travel's knowledge and expertise of self-booking tools helped us in creating a premium booking tool for MYOBTravel customers." Applying its ETM philosophy, e-Travel delivers a unique suite of integrated functionality to MYOBTravel, including the ability for small businesses to: --assign up to three travel planners to book company travel --utilize stored travel profiles --reserve flights for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock --e-mail search results and travel itineraries --create user-defined reports summarizing company travel --search by preferred vendor and/or schedule The MYOBTravel site includes a user interface customized to the exact specifications requested by Delta Air Lines. This unique look and feel was enabled by e-Travel's innovative use of Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML) and Extensible Stylesheet Language (World-Wide Web) Extensible Stylesheet Language - (XSL) A standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium defining a language for transforming and formatting XML documents. (XSL), which facilitates much more rapid customization of the web interface compared with customizations of web interfaces that use just Hypertext Markup Language (hypertext, World-Wide Web, standard) Hypertext Markup Language - (HTML) A hypertext document format used on the World-Wide Web. HTML is built on top of SGML. "Tags" are embedded in the text. A tag consists of a "<", a "directive" (in lower case), zero or more parameters and a ">". (HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. ). "e-Travel is always looking for innovative ways to deliver its services," said e-Travel CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Scott Gutz. "With MYOBTravel, we've leveraged our significant experience creating ETM technology for large companies into a very user-friendly solution that will help serve the needs of the small business community. Smaller businesses, an important but often overlooked category, have real, pressing business travel needs and we're excited to partner with Delta," he said. About e-Travel, Inc. e-Travel Inc., a subsidiary of Oracle Corp., provides hosted Enterprise Travel Management (ETM) services. ETM includes direct links - a technology exclusive to e-Travel - between buyers and suppliers, integration with corporations' existing IT infrastructure and support for comprehensive Internet-based travel management. e-Travel partners include American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines, The Hertz Corporation, National Car Rental, StarCite, SatoTravel and Pegasus Solutions, which represents more than 150 hotel chains worldwide. e-Travel's ETM services are used by major global corporations, including Ingersoll-Rand Corp., The Philip Morris Management Corporation and Joseph E. Seagram Joseph Emm Seagram (April 15, 1841 - August 18, 1919) was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses. Born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario, his parents died when he was in his teens and for several and Sons, Ltd. e-Travel is on the World Wide Web at www.e-travel.com. e-Travel is a registered trademark of e-Travel, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks belong to their respective companies. |
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