Amadeus Again Tops European “Research & Development” Ranking In Travel, Tourism

Amadeus is once again on top of its sector’s ranking as one of the leading European companies in Research & Development investment, as confirmed by the 2013 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scorecard.

Amadeus invested 440.3 million euros for Research and Development in 2012, a 26.7 percent increase versus 2011, which represented 15.1 percent of the company’s total revenues.

According to a press release, this level of investment positions Amadeus as the leader of both the European and the Global rankings in the travel and tourism industry category.

In recent years Amadeus’ Research and Development efforts have been particularly focused on:

– Extremely high performance transaction processing under stringent system availability and dependability requirements;
– Information mining from very large data-bases;
– Super-responsive travel search engines;
– Multi-channel customer servicing applications (agent desktop, web, kiosk, mobile, tablets);
– Pioneering the use of open systems.

Amadeus is the only IT travel industry company included in the global 2,000 companies ranking published by the European Commission.