Users still bullish on Web services

摘要

Galileo International hit a home run last year with a pilot of four Web services designed to help extend the reach of its travel booking and itinerary services. The number of Galileo customers using the services ― now in production mode ― has risen from one to 35, and those customers are clamoring for more. The company buoyed by cost savings and new business opportunities associated with the project, last week started rolling out Web services globally Galileo also is taking the next step by building a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for use across the Travel Distribution Services division of parent-company Cendant. "Getting into this game was the most important step," says Todd Dubner, vice president of product innovation for the Parsippany, N.J., company. "Now that we are in it, we are reaping rewards that we could not forecast a year and a half ago."