Sabre Doubles Down on Hotel Management Software
Photo Credit: Sean Menke, a year-and-half into his job as CEO of Sabre, speaks at his company's annual customer conference in Dallas, Texas on April 10. The company wants to expand its sales of software to hotels. Sabre
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Your move, Oracle.
Sabre, a Texas-based travel technology company, said Tuesday it had launched a new property management system to complement its enterprise software solutions for hoteliers.
The news is significant on two fronts. The leader worldwide in sales of property management systems, especially with upscale hotels, is Oracle Hospitality.
Dallas-based Sabre presents a potential rival, given that it already has customers at 39,000 properties worldwide using its enterprise software for a variety of services, such as its central reservation system and its booking engine for hotel websites.
The news is also notable as it is a large plank in Sabre CEO Sean Menke's effort to rebalance the company away from its dependence on serving airline customers to other parts of the industry.
Sabre's property management system, called SynXis Property Hub, runs on the cloud, meaning it's delivered via the internet instead of by on-property servers. Conventional wisdom in the trade is that this method off
