Comments on: ITA Software and Needlebase http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/21/ita-software-needlebase-google/ Choices in data management and analysis Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:22:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Aaron Sherman http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/21/ita-software-needlebase-google/#comment-166430 Aaron Sherman Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:34:53 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1949#comment-166430 I suppose Google could be used as an adjuct to Dan's comments: http://www.google.com/search?q="ita+software"+database I suppose Google could be used as an adjuct to Dan’s comments:

http://www.google.com/search?q=“ita+software”+database

]]> By: Curt Monash http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/21/ita-software-needlebase-google/#comment-166321 Curt Monash Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:12:50 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1949#comment-166321 Hi Doug, That IS a complicated information market. Thanks for pointing out some of the nuances! CAM Hi Doug,

That IS a complicated information market. Thanks for pointing out some of the nuances!

CAM

]]> By: doug little http://www.dbms2.com/2010/04/21/ita-software-needlebase-google/#comment-166298 doug little Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:18:44 +0000 http://www.dbms2.com/?p=1949#comment-166298 Hi Curt, We use ITA services and are definitely intrigued by the acquisition. I thought I'd add some business background to the complex nature of the business. In the airline industry, each airline has inventory (flight/seats) that needs to be booked. In order to book, one need so search for availability, request and then confirm. there can only 1 authoritative source for the seat committment, but for availability there are many sources. Ideally we'd all go to the primary source, but the airlines charge a transaction fee, so a secondary market has developed for the flight information and availablity. ITA's market niche is to provide a real time cache to the multiple reservation systems that cost less than contacting the authoratative system. For actual reservation/confirmation we still need to contact the airline inventory system (which itself is often outsourced to a different 3rd party). It's an interesting model of the fracturing/maturing of a business market. Hi Curt,
We use ITA services and are definitely intrigued by the acquisition. I thought I’d add some business background to the complex nature of the business.

In the airline industry, each airline has inventory (flight/seats) that needs to be booked. In order to book, one need so search for availability, request and then confirm.

there can only 1 authoritative source for the seat committment, but for availability there are many sources. Ideally we’d all go to the primary source, but the airlines charge a transaction fee, so a secondary market has developed for the flight information and availablity. ITA’s market niche is to provide a real time cache to the multiple reservation systems that cost less than contacting the authoratative system. For actual reservation/confirmation we still need to contact the airline inventory system (which itself is often outsourced to a different 3rd party).

It’s an interesting model of the fracturing/maturing of a business market.

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