Harman International and GetThere, the world’s leading travel and collaboration management solution, have signed an agreement to make Sabre Virtual Meetings technology available to Harman employees worldwide.
Using Sabre Virtual Meetings, Harman employees all over the world can reserve virtual meeting rooms as easily as they book flights, hotels and cars in GetThere. Harman, a Sabre customer since 2000, expects Sabre Virtual Meetings to aid them manage travel demand and increase use of the company’s existing investment in high-definition video conferencing assets.
“Virtual Meetings is a robust new travel management mechanism,” said Sally Abella, director of world Corporate Travel for Harman International. “Like most companies, we wish to control our travel spend, yet we know that travel is essential to growing the business. By utilizing video conferencing for more internal meetings, we will strategically redirect travel spend to trips which are customer-facing and sales focused.”
Harman and GetThere are partnering to observe and track Harman’s goals to redirect internal travel spend and increase room utilization.
“Demand for video conferencing is increasing exponentially and an increasing number of IT departments are called upon to support this demand,” said Thomas Blanchet, director of IT Infrastructure Architecture at Harman International. “Sabre Virtual Meetings gives our employees how to easily reserve and fasten video conferencing rooms in a safe and reliable enterprise-wide environment.”
Until now, scheduling video conference systems was a challenging task with limited visibility into room availability, time zone challenges, and system compatibility issues. The end result have been an over-dependence on IT support and limited employee adoption which means that expensive video conferencing investments sit unused.
“Sabre Virtual Meetings solves these challenges with a simple-to-use, global scheduling system. Room availability, compatibility, and connectivity are all seamlessly verified, so employees know where to book, what’s available and what to do once they happen to a gathering,” said Suzanne Neufang, president of GetThere and Sabre Virtual Meetings. “Our Virtual Meetings solution also enables public room and partner room access for those companies seeking to maximize visual collaboration.”
Sabre Virtual Meetingsis the sole solution providing enterprise-wide, secure access to non-public and partner video conferencing rooms in addition a world network of over 4,000 public rooms. Reminiscent of online travel reservations, all options for a given city pair search are provided in one, secure booking path. Filtered by company policy and room availability that the corporation explicitly authorizes, employees can choose the room options that best meet their business needs.
GetThere, a Sabre Travel Network brand, provides technology to corporations. Its innovative online and mobile booking tools come in 15 languages and utilized by thousands of businesses in additional than 85 countries including a majority of Fortune 200 corporations. Each year, millions of industrial travelers use GetThere to book and manage their work trips and meetings. The world’s largest online corporate travel provider, GetThere processes greater than $9 billion in annual business travel spend.
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