Any thoughts or bets what solutions Sabre could sunset or sell in an effort to become more lean?
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During the cloud transformation G will pinpoint the bits worth their attention and maybe make an offer afterwards. Right now - with current non-cloud majority the risk of high costs is too big
AirCentre to Honeywell? They might be willing to pay $0.20 on the dollar from their 2017 offer.
Google already failed to enter the airline industry. They have owned a decent pricing engine since 2010 when they purchased ITA Software and they keep annoying airlines by offering their products in Google Flights whitout sharing revenue. They are probably only after a % for infrastructure revenue. Why would they acquire a failing business is beyond me.
No worries, Google will buy Sabre soon. Saber is getting cheaper every day ...
Not only Solutions, we also need to trim teams. Apart from political reasons, someone tell me why we need a separate consulting team? Consulting is not a profit center. Consulting is baked into the deal and forced upon customers at a hefty price. Many large and mature airlines reject Sabre consulting services since it does not add any value to their business. The nescience of the Consulting team exposes the standard of Sabre delivery and consulting. The SME team should provide consulting services just as is done by Radixx and 1A.
Other team to be trimmed is GPM. AD or CSP team should take on projects when required.
The thing is that VPs and Directors sell dumb ideas to the Executives to make themselves look important. I see creation of teams, processes and products that are totally useless, slow down delivery and inflate cost for Sabre and the customer just so that a Director or a VP can flash a shiny object and get some credit. Sabre needs to slim down and become efficient. Cut the fat
@kmp+14S8t1Nu, I've yet to see "making money" factor into decision making of this sort. I can see a handful of pet projects being kept alive and the rest either sold or more likely just boarded up as soon as feasible from a legal perspective/contractual obligation.
Shopping, ticketing, inventory would be consider strategic intellectual property of Sabre. Main part of our DNA. These products could be of interest for rich players outside of the airline industry IF they wan to get in (I doubt any big tech company would want to get into airlines right now).
Things like Dynamic Retailer, NDC, crew management etc... are seeing as good ad-ons to our core business. These will be kept and Sabre will invest in them. These are too specialized to be offered.
eCommerce, Intelligence Exchange etc are fat and should be sunset asap. These haven't disappear just for the existing contracts, but these don't make any money and are expensive to maintain.
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Either Shopping, or Ticketing. We really cannot afford both.
only thing they are going to sell off is their people.
Sell to whom?