Amadeus has again maintained its top sector ranking as one of the leading companies in Europe for investment in research and development according to the European Commission (EC).
The 2012 EU Industrial RD Investment Scoreboard, an annual report published by the EC, examines the largest 1,000 European companies investing in RD during 2011 and ranks them according to the total amount invested.
Amadeus invested €347.5 million (Bt13.7 billion) during 2011, an increase of 6.7 per cent on 2010, to research and develop technologies for use in the travel sector. This investment represented 12.7 per cent of revenues and helped the company maintain it No 1 position in Europe by total RD investment in the area of travel and tourism.
Herv? Couturier, Executive Vice President, RD at Amadeus said innovation is one of the drivers behind Amadeus' progress and growth, which has allowed the company's technology to achieve an outstandingly competitive position within the market. Total investment between the years 2004 and 2011 was more than €2 billion.
Recently, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union's long-term financing institution, in May granting a €200 million loan to Amadeus to finance the research and development of a variety of projects in the area of IT for airlines, airports, hotels, and rail between 2012 and 2014.
Amadeus has 16 RD centres around the world - in Nice, London, Sydney, Antwerp, Aachen, Frankfurt, Boston, Miami, Toronto, Strasbourg, Tucson, Bangalore, Bogota, Warsaw, Istanbul and Bangkok - which currently have a team of more than 4,500 people. In recent years Amadeus' RD efforts have been particularly focused on extremely high performance transaction processing under stringent system availability and dependability requirements; information mining from very large data-bases; super-responsive travel search engines; multi-channel customer servicing applications such as agent desktop, Web, kiosk, mobile, and tablets.
For example, at the PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit in Arizona in November this year, Amadeus previewed its patent-pending Amadeus Featured Results solution, which is a search solution that revolutionises the way flight options are presented. Vayama, a leading online travel agency uniquely focused on international travel, is the first pilot customer to implement the solution in beta form on its website, including 100 origin and destination combinations. Full global market availability for featured results is scheduled for early 2013.
The result of the RD includes Amadeus e-Retail, Amadeus Dynamic Website Manager, and Amadeus Extreme Search, which have been built with extensive use of open source components in a way that would not be possible using legacy components. Amadeus ARIA Templates - the framework upon which Amadeus IT Group's Web solutions are based - has recently been made open source, allowing third-party developers to use it without charge.
Amadeus Alt?a Suite, a community-based airline IT platform, consists of three solutions covering reservation, inventory management and departure control. The Alt?a portfolio has marked a technological and functional breakthrough in the airline industry - with 122 airlines already contracted to use both Alt?a Reservation and Inventory. Based upon these contracts, Amadeus estimates that by 2014 the number of passengers boarded will be more than 760 million.
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