RAMWrite Consulting - Southwest USA Software Development - Databases, Internet and Mobile Applications

ATIS is a product that started as a simple request by Apex Travel of San Jose, CA to provide a monthly spreadsheet to their customers (the Applied Materials Travel Center and Cisco Systems) so they could "run some travel numbers themselves".

RAMWrite suggested that a relational database application would better meet the requirements of an on-going, roll-up/drill-down solution.

That was in 1994. Over the next 7 years ATIS evolved into a relational database program that provided travel agencies the power to mine their data in support of negotiations, budgeting, trend analysis, cost management and policy compliance.

In 2001, ATIS was sold to a German corporation to be marketed globally.

Advanced Travel Information System (ATIS)

ATIS is a system of applications that work together to:

extract data from a travel agency backroom accounting system
import the extracted data into a data cleansing program
cleanse the data and format it for the data analysis program
convert foreign currencies into one currency of choice
analyze data for vendor negotiations, budgeting, policy compliance, trend analysis, etc.
print reports, spreadsheets and graphs of data findings

ATIS can be considered to be made up of four program types:

	Travel System Data Extractors Data used by ATIS starts as a reservation made by a travel agent or (directly) by a traveler. These data are entered into one of the major reservation systems; Galileo, Sabre, Apollo, WorldSpan, Amadeus, etc. From there, data is "interfaced" to one of a large number of travel agency backroom accounting systems. Within these systems, changes are made as needed to the data and some reporting can be done. The primary purpose of these systems, however, is the ability to report to the Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC). ATIS uses the data contained in these backroom systems. The data is exported from the backroom accounting system and imported into ATIS. In some few instances, the backroom system does not have an adequate export system.