BCD Travel Opens Its Platform for Simpler Integration With Startups


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Big travel management companies usually operate with strict controls on how third-party companies can interact with their systems. This new platform from BCD Travel is a step in the right direction toward allowing travel managers to use more innovative solutions.

The dream of an App Store-like solution for travel managers isn't here yet. But BCD Travel on Tuesday launched a service, SolutionSource, that makes it easier and hopefully quicker for travel managers to integrate products an services from startups and technology partners. Corporate travel giants are notorious for being difficult for third-party technology service and technology partners to interface with. Legacy technology systems, combined with complex data infrastructures, have hampered widespread integration even as startups offering valuable s