A client-server system for corporate travel planning, expense reporting and travel
management that utilizes a corporate database server to enable accurate and timely
pre-travel and post-travel decision making that is fed by a travel planning process
and an expense reporting process, plus a SABRE data feed of all booked data and
back office system data as well as a hand-off of exchange and void ticket information
that comprises a Travel Planning module, a Travel Decision Maker module, and a
Travel Expense Reporting module. The system uses a corporate database environment
communicating with a real-time CRS data feed that enhances the Travel Planning
module by offering the traveler live choices of air, car, and hotel availability
based upon company travel policy as well as live access to current or company negotiated
fares while also allowing the Travel Decision Maker module to make comparisons
between booked information and actual current travel data.