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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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