IBS is now a member of the OpenTravel Alliance

IBS Software Services, a leading provider of IT solutions to the travel, transportation and logistics industries, is now a member of the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA). With this association, IBS will be an active participant in developing travel industry e-business specifications to support information exchange among all segments of the travel industry.

[ClickPress, Wed Mar 07 2007] IBS Software Services, a leading provider of IT solutions to the travel, transportation and logistics industries, is now a member of the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA). With this association, IBS will be an active participant in developing travel industry e-business specifications to support information exchange among all segments of the travel industry.

The OTA is a not-for-profit trade association, founded in 1999 by travel companies, with a primary focus on the creation of electronic message structures to facilitate communication between the disparate systems in the global travel industry. OTA members actually do the work of identifying what messages are needed, prioritizing and creating the messages. This helps member companies meet interoperability requirements for themselves, their partners and their clients, thus reducing time-to-market for new products and services, decreasing IT costs, better servicing partners and customers, and increasing credibility in the marketplace

Membership in the OTA will give IBS the opportunity to share information, network with business and technology leaders across the travel industry, and participate in the OTA workgroups and subcommittees dedicated to the Airline, Cruise, Rail, Travel Integration and Hospitality industries.

According to VK Mathews, Chairman and Managing Director, IBS Group, “OTA is a forum comprising members with a common goal of developing a part of a specification that may span some or all travel industry segments and their representative OTA Work Group. We are aligned to their mission of creating, expanding and adopting open universal data specifications, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry.”


“We are pleased to have IBS as a member,” said Valyn Perini, Executive Director, OTA. “As a leading solutions provider in the travel industry, we know OTA will benefit from their active participation, and IBS in turn will be able to take advantage of the valuable benefits of being a member of the travel industry’s leading specification development organization.”

IBS has been providing travel technology solutions to leading organizations which includes some of the world’s biggest names among travel portals, hospitality and tour technology companies. As early adopters of OTA standards, IBS will certainly leverage even more from its association with Open Travel Alliance while offering more value to its customers.

About OTA

The OpenTravel Alliance is passionate about solving the problems inherent with connecting multiple systems within the complex travel distribution arena.

The OTA's mission is to engineer specifications that make data transmission flow smoothly throughout travel, tourism and hospitality. The OTA creates, expands and drives adoption of open universal data specifications, including but not limited to the use of XML, for the electronic exchange of business information among all sectors of the travel industry.

With a diversified membership representing influential names in all sectors of the travel industry, OTA is comprised of representatives from airlines, car rental firms, hotels, cruise lines, leisure suppliers, service providers, tour operators, travel agencies, and trade associations. Thousands of OTA message structures are in use around the world and in every travel vertical, carrying tens of millions of messages between trading partners every day.

For more information, visit www.opentravel.org, or contact Valyn Perini at:
valyn.perini@opentravel.org.

About IBS

The IBS Group (IBS) is a leading global provider of new-generation IT solutions to the Travel, Transportation and Logistics industries. A specialist in the domain, IBS offers a range of products and services that manage mission-critical operations of major airlines, airports, oil and gas companies, seaports, travel, tour and hospitality technology companies, cruise lines and tour operators world-wide. The services offered by IBS include technology consulting, product development, application development, re-engineering, and maintenance. SEI CMMI Level 5 and PCMM Level 5 assessed, ISO 9001:2000 and TickIT certified, IBS operates two software development centers in India. With some of the world’s leading corporations as customers, IBS has business operations in the Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa.

More information about IBS is available at http://www.ibsplc.com


For more information please contact:
Jane Miller, tel: +91 471 270 0080 or email janek@ibsplc.com

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