AGIFORS 50th Annual Symposium

AGIFORS 50^th Annual Symposium
Coming Full Circle

	In more than 20 years of innovation, Amadeus has always used the latest technology available to build IT solutions for airlines to ensure superior performance and reliability. In particular Amadeus has progressively decommissioned costly TPF systems to move to open platform systems and maintain cost-effective processing power. Amadeus is able to integrate new features fast and efficiently, supporting airlines as they adapt to the ever changing business environment, regardless of their size, business model or location. The fast growing Amadeus portfolio of Airline IT solutions includes the new generation Altéa Customer Management Solution which has been contracted by nearly 100 airlines globally, complemented by an integrated range of solutions that cover airlines' e-commerce, revenue optimization, IT infrastructure, and still growing. Amadeus continues to heavily invest in research and development to ensure that its solutions and services remain leading edge and continue to re-enforce the company as a world leading technology and distribution solutions provider.
	FICO™ is the leader in Decision Management, transforming business by making every decision count. We use predictive analytics to help businesses automate, improve and connect decisions across organizational silos and customer lifecycles. Clients in 80 countries work with FICO to increase customer loyalty and profitability, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, meet regulatory and competitive demands, and rapidly build market share. We have pioneered the development and application of critical technologies behind advanced Decision Management. These include predictive analytics, business rules management and optimization. We use these technologies to help businesses improve the precision, consistency and agility of their complex, high-volume decisions.
	Gurobi Optimization is in the business of providing robust, high-performance optimization software based upon the latest linear and mixed-integer programming technologies. The computational progress in linear and mixed integer programming over the last twenty years has been nothing short of remarkable, enabling business, scientific and other applications that literally would have been unapproachable just a few short years ago. The Gurobi founders have been at the forefront of these developments. The Gurobi suite of optimization products represent completely new implementations, redesigned from the ground up to fully exploit the latest mathematical and “engineering” improvements in the underlying methodologies, as well as developments in modern desktop computing hardware and programming environments; moreover, the Gurobi team is committed not just to providing the best technology now available, but to continuing to push forward the frontier of optimization solution capability.
	IBM ILOG technologies offer travel and transportation companies the ability to increase competitiveness, safety and environmental impact by improving both customer service and operations at a lower cost.
	For over 75 years, Jeppesen have been helping aviation professionals worldwide reach their destinations safely and efficiently. Today, we build on those roots by offering an ever-expanding array of innovative informational products, services, and software—not only to our air transportation partners, but also to a growing lineup of sea and land transportation partners. We are committed to continuously improving our products, services and processes to meet and exceed our customers’ requirements and quality objectives by integrating Jeppesen’s vision into our daily work. We are headquartered in Englewood, Colorado and have offices located around the world. Jeppesen is a subsidiary of Boeing Commercial Aviation Services, a unit of Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
	Since 1996, Kernel Software has been providing airlines with innovative, yet highly reliable Crew Management systems. Kernel Software offers truly unique solutions in the areas of real-time Preferential Bidding Systems, Automatic Rostering and Legality Checking. Its products have enabled Lufthansa to reduce its crew planning cycle by several weeks, simultaneously increasing the profitability of the German airline and satisfying the requests of its crew-members. Kernel Software’s team combines in-depth knowledge of airline operations and excellence in Operations Research. Its expertise in Systems Integration has been a key success factor in providing operational systems in the complex IT environment of airlines.
	As the world's leading provider of high performance solutions for airlines and airports, we help companies generate more revenue by optimizing performance in 14 key areas of airline operations. More than 300 leading air carriers and over 100 airports use our solutions to better market their schedules, sell their products, serve their customers and operate efficiently. We also distribute software solutions and consulting services to customers spanning six continents, powering the progress of a key segment of the world’s largest industry — travel and tourism.
	SigmaZen is a company that is specialised in the marketing of over-capacity. SigmaZen has combined many years of experience in airline logistics with outstanding IT know-how to develop this innovative product in the area of revenue management. SigmaZen expertise in flexible, individual price setting includes the development of the software, analysing customer data (data mining) as well as the integration of new and the optimisation of existing systems.
	SITA is the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and IT solutions. We deliver and manage business solutions for airline, airport, GDS, government and other customers over the world's most extensive network, which forms the communications backbone of the global air transport industry. Created and owned by the air transport community, SITA is the community's dedicated partner for information and communications technology. As a team of industry experts, our know-how is based on working with customers across the global air transport community. Almost every airline and airport in the world does business with SITA. SITA innovates collaboratively with the air transport industry, and the industry itself drives the company's portfolio and strategic direction.

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