Sabre Web Services
Sabre Web Services provides easier, faster and more flexible access to the Sabre® system functionality and products. Through the Internet, you can integrate our products and services–all the functionality needed to sell travel–with your own applications and databases. Web Services is ideal for agencies with no Sabre system format expertise that want to build or update a customised booking application for their website.
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Pricing and Special Offers
The pricing structure for Sabre Web Services features a recurring licence fee and a transaction-based (or per-request) pricing system. Support fees are included in the licence fee.
Key Benefits
- Reduces development costs
- Streamlines development process
- Provides single point of access to the Sabre system
- Increases development speed by using XML, SOAP travel industry standards
Features
As technology advances, you require easier and lower cost ways to build your own online custom booking application. You also need easy access and the flexibility to integrate travel content with your own systems and databases. And to gain a competitive edge, you need to be able to get your product to market fast. With Sabre Web Services, you can do all of this. Plus, it makes it easy to build (or update) a comprehensive travel booking website that meets your unique business needs.
It’s simple. An Internet connection and standard industry development tools and skills are all you need. The reason for the simplification? Web Services is supported by technologies developed by the OpenTravel Alliance using web services generic technology standards backed by Sun, IBM and Microsoft. These standards enable different systems to “talk” to each other using one interface (not many) and eliminate the need for screen scraping and translating cryptic Sabre® Data Source (SDS) and Sabre system messages.
As a result, developers do not need to understand the complexities of Sabre system formats. And your agency receives all the functionality needed to sell travel: air, car rental, hotel, passenger name record (PNR). This is all achieved through the Internet, saving you time and money.
The Web Services technology allows the following:
- Platform independence - Sabre Web Services can be used regardless of your own development platform
- Increases development speed - uses XML, SOAP travel industry standards
- Frees you from constraints of existing systems and technology
- Allows you to integrate any Web service-enabled functionality in your own customised applications
- Extensive set of air / car / hotel / passenger name record / miscellaneous services to access Sabre content
- Business logic that streamlines transactions with the Sabre system
- Sabre system communications components hosted by Sabre Travel Network, the world's largest electronic network for travel buyers and sellers
- Greater flexibility -You have more control over which services are executed, in what series and how often
- More robust responses - More specific requests lead to more targeted responses
- Higher performance - Because each service correlates to one Sabre system command, performance is comparable to that of a green screen command
- Improved transaction cost-efficiency - You are able to manage your sessions as defined by your business needs
- Using Event Notification Services minimises mid-office robotic polling and can reduce scan charges
- Orchestrated Services perform common functions in a single service call minimising development time and reducing IT overhead
Additional Information
Training And Support
Web Services includes a website that provides information for using Web Services, including a simple way to obtain the latest services through a repository that includes a complete directory of services and documentation to use them.
Web Services customers have access to around-the-clock support through our call centre to report operational and production-critical issues. In addition, our support desk is available Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST. Email requests may be made at any time and will be reviewed Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST.
Technical Requirements
Architecture and Platform Requirements
Sabre Web Services is a platform-neutral offering that adheres to cross-platform web services standards. It does not restrict the environment for developing or deploying client applications. Web Services client applications can be deployed in any environment that supports HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), including Windows® and UNIX, without requiring bridges or specialised interfaces.
A wide variety of languages and development developer toolkits can be used to design and deploy client applications for Web Services. It ascribes to the specifications developed by the OpenTravel Alliance (XML Schemas and service descriptions), using technologies backed by Sun, IBM and Microsoft.
Hardware Requirements
As a platform-neutral solution, Sabre Web Services works with existing systems. Depending on your volume expectations and business needs, current systems can satisfy all infrastructure/hardware needs.
Access and Availability
Sabre Web Services is available worldwide in English Only.
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