Compute Availability and Rates information (ARI) from OTDS

ARI data is crucial for any search process in modern online sales. In an ideal world, they are directly provided by the inventory system. Unfortunately, the capabilities of the reservation systems fall short when it comes to massive price comparison operations and may soon be overwhelmed by the load. This puts the booking process at risk. This is why search requests are processed by caching systems rather than by the reservation system itself.

OTDS on the other hand is capable of representing all relevant touristic products accurately. It is already used by many suppliers of accommodation data and often is used to provide high volume offers of touristic package to selling platforms and price compare systems.

Using VTI, you may think of OTDS data as a virtual representation of your product inventory. It ingests OTDS and provides data streams in other, fast cacheable data formats such as INFX, INFX2 or others. This way, it enables individual IBEs to make use of the advantages of OTDS without having to implement the OTDS processing algorithms which could turn out to be slow and fairly complicated. VTI leverages the a-five OTDS Interpreter, one of the moste complete implementations of the standard, that also powers Offer Inspector.