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The CIO and M&A, Part I

The Agile Manager

M&A is a great process for creating fees for bankers, and for destroying the value held by shareholders." -- John Authers, writing in the Financial Times Industries tend to go through waves of deal-making. This is something H-P did in the late 1990s , and is about to do again. IT is at the center of deal synergy.

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

Altexsoft

As late as last summer British Airways canceled more than 100 of their flights and delayed another 200 because of IT outages that involved two components of their passenger service software — one that was responsible for online check-in and the other that managed flight departure. And that episode was not a one-off.

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Conversational AI: How Advanced Chatbots Work

Altexsoft

Conversational AI is the area of artificial intelligence that deals with questions on how to let people interact with software services through chat- or voice-enabled conversational interfaces and make this interaction natural. An AI-based chatbot is also software programmed to mimic human conversation. Here’s the catch though.

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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. Travel content mapping.

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