Case Study: Sabre accelerates business intelligence and financial close with SAP S/4HANA and SAP cloud solutions

Wayfinder of the Next Generation of Travel Booking

Sabre, a leading technology provider to the global travel industry, faced the challenge of modernizing its outdated IT infrastructure. With customers adopting more digital strategies, Sabre needed to shift from its mainframe operations to become a more agile software company. They required better data integration and internal platforms to support continued innovation and growth. To address this, Sabre partnered with vendor SAP to implement the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution as a core component of its transformation.

The solution from SAP involved deploying SAP S/4HANA Finance in a private cloud, followed by a suite of SAP SaaS applications including SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, and SAP BusinessObjects. This move simplified data models and consolidated financial systems, reducing profit centers from 16,000 to 3,000. The results were significant, including a faster financial close, a 50% increase in productivity for some teams, and real-time data for improved decision-making. SAP enabled a complete cultural shift at Sabre, allowing them to accelerate innovation and respond faster to market changes.

Sabre

Steve Strout

Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operation