The widely-used e-Travel Management is no longer Amadeus’ premier booking tool. Today, the company launched Amadeus cytric Travel & Expense at the Business Travel Show in London, and Amadeus no longer will update e-Travel.
Amadeus did not announce plans to sunset e-Travel, which has 11,000 corporate customers in more than 100 countries. However, Florian Tinnus, head of corporate IT for the global customer group, told BTN Amadeus will focus all booking and expense product development efforts on the new tool.
The system, which Amadeus intends to have customer ready by the second quarter, builds e-Travel’s best features and services onto Cytric, a global distribution system-agnostic platform that Amadeus acquired when it
bought i:FAOover a year ago. The new system also will incorporate the
Outlook booking integration on which Amadeus has been working with Microsoft.
Tinnus said Amadeus cytric Travel & Expense will retain the modular approach to expense that allowed e-Travel to be used with expense tools like Chrome River, Expensify and Concur, but the new system also integrates booking and expense. “This tool is aimed at creating a traveler experience
ecosystem,” he said.