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Sylvera takes $32M to build trust in carbon offsetting ratings

TechCrunch

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 Sylvera , a U.K.-based million seed round in May last year by closing a $32 million Series A.

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Dynamic Pricing Strategy for Airlines: Exploring Current Problems and Adopting Continuous Pricing

Altexsoft

In the 1980s, American Airlines and its former president Robert Crandall started a revolution in airline pricing. Crandall is famous for many airline innovations that we use today, such as inventing the first frequent flier program and contributing to route optimization and central reservation system adoption.

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OTA Rates and Building ?ommission Engine: Best Practices and Lessons Learnt

Altexsoft

They help hotels, airlines, car rental services, and other suppliers sell inventory to end customers — and charge fees for this mediation. It unfolds as follows: A supplier (for example, an airline or hotel) sets the final prices (gross rates) and passes them to an OTA. Net contracted model. Commission contracted model.

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10 Digital Transformation Examples from 10 Industries

Modus Create

Its net promoter score (NPS) increased by 31 points, and its capacity for handling analysis of customers’ complaints showed a 7x increase. United Airlines — Calming Nerves with ConnectionServer Airlines Missing a connecting flight due to tight scheduling frustrates thousands of passengers every day.

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Travel Booking Engines: Types, Functionality, and Integrations

Altexsoft

Without this software component, you can neither sell nor buy airline tickets or hotel reservations through the Internet. The key systems on the suppliers’ side are: Global Distribution Systems ( GDSs ), bed banks , airline consolidator databases, hotel property management systems ( PMSs ), and. airline reservation systems ( ARSs ).

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

In this article, we’ll discuss airline software suites, their major modules, and available modern solutions, created to change the current state of things for the better. Its mission is to keep operations running smoothly, and failures in its work can cost airlines tens of millions of dollars in lost revenue.

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Conversational AI: How Advanced Chatbots Work

Altexsoft

In this post, we’ll focus on what conversational AI is, how it works, and what platforms exist to enable data scientists and machine learning engineers to implement this technology. Also, such chatbots do not learn from interactions with a user: They only perform and work with the previously known scenarios you wrote for them.