Sabre Teams Up with Ignite Technologies to Meet Growing Global Workforce Demands

  
    
  
  
    
      Ignite Technologies, Inc., a leader in providing secure and scalable 
      Content Delivery Solutions, announced today its solution is helping to 
      transform business communications and operations throughout Sabre 
      Holdings’ growing and widely dispersed global 
      workforce. Sabre deployed the Ignite Content Delivery Solution in April 
      2006 on approximately 6,000 desktops and laptops worldwide. Since that 
      time, Sabre has realized savings and measurable improvement for 
      effective delivery of rich media for corporate communications such as 
      executive video broadcasts and for software delivery including 
      applications and security patches.
    
    
      “Our employee makeup has changed dramatically 
      in the past few years. As recently as 2002, only 16 percent of our team 
      worked outside the United States; today more than 50 percent of 
      employees are outside the US,” said Todd 
      Pickett, regional service delivery manager, Americas, Sabre Holdings. “Mergers 
      and acquisitions during the past couple years have made us reconsider 
      our communications business model. We need the ability to easily and 
      effectively distribute content to a global workforce networked through 
      varied Internet connections and bandwidths. The Ignite Content Delivery 
      Solution enables us to reach our global employee base online or offline 
      and deliver rich multimedia communications or IT software content 
      without network congestion.”
    
    
      From September through December 2006, Sabre has distributed more than 
      128,000 deliveries – 615 Gigabytes of content – 
      consisting of executive videos, earnings reports, surveys, training 
      manuals, general internal corporate communications, software and 
      security patches. Reporting and analytics indicate a significant 
      increase in viewing the media rich corporate communications. This 
      increased viewership is attributed to Ignite’s 
      technology which enables employees to view the TV-quality video full 
      screen, without buffering or launching special media players, both 
      online and offline.
    
    
      In addition to corporate communications and training departments, Sabre’s 
      information technology department also uses Ignite’s 
      technology to deliver software applications, updates, and security 
      patches as well as perform computer and software inventory checks. 
      Significant labor cost savings result from minimizing the time needed 
      for creation of new employee desktop environments and by cutting the 
      time it takes to deliver software applications from weeks to just 
      minutes. For example, a critical software patch sent to over 4,000 
      workstations had an average delivery time of seven minutes, a remarkable 
      improvement over the previous three-week long delivery window.
    
    
      “Content delivery networks have had a lot of 
      play in the press, but most solutions have been focused on the needs of 
      internet service providers -- not the needs of the enterprise," said 
      Melissa Webster, Program Director at IDC. "Enterprises have very 
      different needs. They need to push secure content to employees, 
      partners, and customers according to role and well-defined privileges, 
      and they need to be able to track and measure usage -- especially when 
      some of the content they push touches on compliance. Having a single 
      platform that can push all types of content to employee desktops -- from 
      executive video messages to software applications -- is a sensible 
      business practice."
    
    
      About Sabre Holdings
    
    
      Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel 
      possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution 
      and technology solutions for the travel industry. Sabre Holdings 
      supports travelers, travel agents, corporations and travel suppliers 
      through its companies: Travelocity, Sabre Travel Network and Sabre 
      Airline Solutions. Headquartered in Southlake, Texas, the company has 
      approximately 9,000 employees in 45 countries. Full year 2005 revenues 
      totaled $2.5 billion. Sabre Holdings, an S&P 500 company, is traded on 
      the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TSG.
    
    
      About Ignite Technologies, Inc.
    
    
      Ignite Technologies, privately held and headquartered in Frisco, Texas, 
      provides the industry’s most secure and 
      scalable Content Delivery Solution enabling customers to efficiently 
      publish, deliver and manage digital assets — 
      from rich media content for communications and training to software 
      patches and virus updates — to anyone, 
      anywhere, at any time. Ignite's patented Content Delivery Solution 
      overcomes network and connectivity constraints that have limited the 
      ability to reach online audiences with the highest quality, secure rich 
      media. Ignite's Solution has been deployed across hundreds of thousands 
      of users around the globe at companies like Accenture, BearingPoint, 
      Sabre, and Proctor & Gamble. For more information, visit www.ignitetech.com.
    
    
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