Sabre Corporation, a software and technology company, has been collecting data from its vast network of travel partners – airlines, hoteliers, agencies and cruise liner companies – for years. Using this wealth of information, Sabre is now harnessing AI and cloud technologies to offer advanced travel intelligence and develop innovative services for its partners.
To enable these intelligent services, Sabre started migrating its on-premises data centers to Google Cloud and achieved full cloud migration this year. The company now operates a vast cloud infrastructure, running tens of thousands of virtual servers and containers, with more than 50 petabytes of data stored. Nearly all of its daily business processes are managed in Google Cloud, with more than 99% of its total CPU capacity on the cloud, said Joe DiFonzo, CIO at Sabre Corporation.
Moving to Google Cloud also gave Sabre access to Google’s AI technologies such as Vertex AI, BigQuery and other solutions. Research by Skift showed that generative AI poses a $28 billion-plus opportunity for the travel industry.
“We don’t see AI as a single product. Instead, what we see is it being sprinkled into all of the different products that we provide to our customers to solve specific problems that are complex and aren’t easily addressed by traditional software solutions,” DiFonzo said.
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