Amadeus Global Connect
Keeping airlines responsive and competitive
Paul Burroughs
General Manager Online Sales & Distributionbmi.com
Amadeus Global Connect
Amadeus Global Connect makes e-Merchandise one of the world's most technologically advanced and scalable web-based merchandising solutions. It consists of an on-demand hosting service plus the Amadeus API.
With Global Connect, airlines can rapidly process an enormous volume of fares, dynamically, and in real time. Airlines can start small and then scale very quickly to handle huge numbers of transactions every day, even during periods of extraordinarily high volume.
What will it do for my business?
Global Connect facilitates the following business benefits:
- An airline's ability to respond to the fast-changing needs of its evolving industry
- An airline's potential cost savings due to the reliability of on-demand hosting solution translating into fewer calls to call centres
- Directly connecting e-Merchandise to existing Internet booking engines of any airline
- The flexibility to connect the solution at either the EDIFACT/XML layer or at the UI layer
- Stability: Amadeus' on-demand platform can serve potentially hundreds of airlines and enable them to outsource their e-Commerce stores
- Reliability: e-Travel's operational excellence program has resulted in the following actions: replacement or upgrade of all e-Commerce servers, a new shadow cluster infrastructure, deployment across all servers of hardware-based HTML compressors and obtaining TruSecure certification from Cybertrust
How does it work?
- On-demand platform is scalable to the needs of any airline
- Full e-Commerce store hosting including schedules, fares, customer data and web user interface
- HTTP compression and SSL off-loading
- Global development, implementation, and production support 24x7
- UNIX operating platform (soon moving to LINUX)



