Sabre Travel Network has teamed up with Agresso Travel Industry Solutions, a leader in financial and client services applications…
Sabre Travel Network has teamed up with Agresso Travel Industry Solutions, a leader in financial and client services applications, to offer British travel agencies the industry’s first fully-integrated, end-to-end business information system.
Sabre CentralCommand is a bespoke version of Sabre Travel Network’s successful US product. It is designed to help travel management companies quickly and easily measure how a corporate client is performing at all levels. The system allows agencies to choose from 65 standard reports, or customise their own, to quickly measure and understand all areas of their business. Report types include detailed profit and loss statements for individual agents and each of their customers.
The product delivers critical information in real-time, and can import data from outside sources. It also enables travel agencies and travel management companies to email their clients complete or partial statements, invoices and credit notes. It can handle accounting applications in 12 languages and multiple currencies, and it complies with VAT and global tax requirements.
Business travellers also benefit from Sabre CentralCommand as it provides a secure ‘weblink’ facility that allows invoices to be stored. These can then be accessed directly by travellers when completing their expense claims.
Hillgate Travel, one of the UK’s largest travel management companies, has been using Sabre CentralCommand for several weeks.
Simon Bull, Hillgate Travel’s chief information officer, said: We need to be able to report across all business areas and address our clients’ complex information needs with minimum effort, disruption and cost. Sabre CentralCommand is a strategic tool that enables us to do this and, as a result, we can now better control and grow our business without incurring additional costs.
Sabre CentralCommand is available either as a fully independent system where the agency manages their own information on-site, or as a hosted or service bureau solution, where Sabre manages the data from its secure data centre. Agents pay a monthly subscription fee which varies dependent on transaction volume and configuration required.
Reet Wiseman, Sabre Travel Network’s vice-president for the UK and Ireland, said: Sabre is adding value by helping travel agencies run their businesses more effectively. Sabre CentralCommand provides travel and financial applications that give travel agencies and travel management companies unparalleled capabilities to measure, understand, monitor and manage their business.
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