Sabre aspires to enable intelligent retailing by providing technology that enables its customers to create unique, relevant, and appealing offers and distribute them via multiple channels. To brief us about what role Sabre GCCs play on “Sabre to create a new marketplace for personalised travel in a cloud-based environment, Hari Subramanian, Sr. Principal – Software Architect, Sabre, India spoke to Nidhi Shail Kujur of Elets News Network (ENN).

1. What are Sabre’s growth and current advancements in India?

Sabre started in 1960 and created the world’s first computerised reservation system. The journey has progressed from Computer Reservation Systems CRS in 1964 to the Travel AI system and services that enable us to create new market space for travel powered by cloud technologies.

Sabre India has been a part of this journey for the last 15 years and contributing to Global Sabre Goals. To give it a simple picture, Sabre’s tech stack consists of four layers:

  • User experience
  • Business services
  • Platform services
  • Infrastructure

Sabre Bangalore has teams working on all four layers, and its goal is to enable a new travel marketplace by 2025 with a transformational mindset.

Sabre GCC has teams and team members as part of tech transformation, research, and next-gen technology such as AI, ML, real-time data analytics, and cloud migrations.

2. Sabre’s travel innovation/ecosystem evolution

Sabre India has achieved great heights and is working towards achieving greater heights. We are working towards providing travellers with a new travel marketplace. Tech transformation is the next big thing in the innovation ecosystem, and all these infrastructures are moving toward the cloud infrastructure.

Tech transformation efforts bring cost benefits, powers innovation, provide increased security, and ensure speed-to-market

Sabre labs, innovation, and research-focused groups have a significant presence in Bangalore and are part of global activities.

Sabre believes in creating a culture of innovation and a mindset for the teams to be engaged that helps us grow. Sabre Bangalore is leading many forums which create a culture of innovation within the organisation. The forums like BlitzCode, Global Blitz, Solve!T, and Women in Tech (W!T), to name a few, bring all of us together beyond regular assignments and schedules, create daring ideas, and bring those ideas to reality. Read more

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This article by Hari Subramanian was covered in cio.eletsonline.com