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Sabre accelerates technology evolution with key leadership appointment and new development facility
SOUTHLAKE, Texas and KRAKOW, Poland, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the leading technology provider to the global travel
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[{"type":"text","content":"SOUTHLAKE, Texas and KRAKOW, Poland, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Sabre Corporation (NASDAQ: SABR), the leading technology provider to the global travel industry, is executing a comprehensive strategy to evolve its technology foundation and advance product-development capabilities. \n\n \nThis week, Sabre has reached two crucial milestones in this journey – the opening of the technology company's new development center location in Krakow, and the appointment of technology veteran Sebastian Drzewieckit to lead the team. The new facility will be housed in one of the city's most progressive office buildings, providing a cutting-edge environment to further improve Sabre's development capabilities.\nSabre started charting a new course with the appointment of Sean Menke as president and CEO in December 2016. Since then, one of the key objectives has been to further improve Sabre's development capabilities leveraging agile development methods, which has been a core responsibility of Louis Selincourt, senior vice president, global development centers, since joining in July 2018.\nThe company has made significant progress on its technology evolution, realizing tangible benefits in stability, security, flexibility and efficiency. The technology provider now has more than 90% of its compute processing power in open systems and over 50% of total compute processing power in the cloud. \nLeveraging cutting-edge opensource technology, Sabre is also building a next-generation platform that is intended to increase the company's speed-to-market through tools and automation that streamline and accelerate how applications are developed, tested, deployed and run. Seven applications, including the upcoming NDC Offer and Order capabilities, are now live on the new platform and deployed in the public cloud. \nProducts scheduled for release this year include NDC-enabled solutions and Content Services for Lodging, an industry-first technology solution that integrates multi-source, multi-representation of GDS, aggregator, and agency-sourced hotel content into the Sabre GDS.\nNew leadership for Sabre's global development center in KrakowTo lead the continued enhancement of its development and innovation capabilities in Poland, Sabre has appointed Sebastian Drzewiecki as vice president and managing director of the company's global development center in Krak...