A year in infographics – travel hot spots, wireless technology and frequent flyer miles
Posted on December 13, 2011
Posted by Alejandra Contreras (Group Communications Senior Executive, Amadeus IT Group) In 2011 our blog has featured a series of infographics that highlight trends in the travel industry and provide insight into technology that will improve the traveller experience. Let’s look at them one by one: Passenger traffic data, shifting travel centres and new revenue [...]
The Amadeus Data Center in numbers [infographic]
Posted on October 17, 2011
Posted by Stine Kirkegaard (Senior Communication Consultant, Amadeus IT Group) To put it very simply, the Amadeus Data Center, which is based in Erding near Munich in Germany, is the very heart of our operations as a business. Not only is it the largest privately owned data center in Europe but it is also integral [...]
Asia Pacific: high-tech or high-maintenance?
Posted on June 24, 2011
Asia Pacific is truly a region of extremes with its developing countries, advanced economies, and everything in between. Many cities in Asia are considered to be the most high-tech in the world.
Introducing our travel chain video series: trip planning and pricing
Posted on February 22, 2011
Posted by Ian Wheeler (Vice President Marketing & Distribution, Amadeus IT Group) As a company that processes more than 650 million travel transactions per year, we are heavily involved in travel bookings. But did you know that our role goes far beyond this stage of the travel chain? Our technology helps make the entire travel [...]
Getting inside our Altéa departure control solution
Posted on February 21, 2011
Posted by Malek Nejjai (Head of Corporate Communication, Amadeus IT Group) Running an airport has never been more challenging in today’s fast-paced environment. Increased flight numbers, more travellers, growing customer expectations and a global financial recession are just three of a great many factors which add pressure to what is an essential service to so [...]
Have a look inside the Amadeus data center
Posted on June 25, 2010
Posted by Stine Kirkegaard (Senior Communication Consultant, Amadeus IT Group) Have you ever wondered what the inside of one of the largest civil data centers in the world looks like? What really happens at the heart of the world’s largest travel technology company? Find out in this post’s video about the Amadeus data center in [...]
A bolder vision of IT operations
Posted on June 9, 2010
Posted by Eberhard Haag (EVP Global Operations, Amadeus IT Group) On Wednesday 19 May 2010 the last Amadeus Unisys mainframe was switched off by a team in Nice and Munich. Unisys mainframes were one of the two major IT platforms upon which the Amadeus success story was built more than 20 years ago. This is [...]
