Corporate Booking Engines
Various technology providers offers multitude of features when it comes to corporate booking tools. The likes of GetThere, ResX and Concur dominates the marketplace, until Rearden Commerce has introduced its version of what a corporate booking engine should be via personal assistant browser interface. Rearden Commerce has revolutionized the way corporate travel is being book, with many value-added features, which most corporate booking engines are lacking or may never catch up to. Rearden Commerce is a corporate booking tools on steroid, but it is out of hand with most small businesses due to license fee implementation cost. Rearden Commerce has spent more than 5 years developing their platform with 90 plus in-house developers and USD 50M price tag before it was introduce in the market. And recently Travelport has introduced its new corporate booking tool called Traversa - it looks promising from UI perspective. All these automation advancement in corporate travel, there are still areas that can be unified such as T&E automation still is considered a separate module, which is considered an added expense to corporate users. An innovative startup in South Africa called TravelLinck is unifying the corporate, leisure, group, call center and T&E in partnership with Roundtrip Systems to offer the most powerful and economical corporate booking solutions via Engine.Mashups bundled services. TravelLinck has been in the market for more than a year and now poised to expand its offering globally towards the end of 2008.


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