Sabre's GetThere announced plans during the second quarter to provide an integrated booking and expense product with IBM's Global Expense Reporting Solutions

as part of what the companies called "IBM's first technology integration with an online corporate travel provider." Targeting direct clients as well as GetThere's travel management company resellers, the initiative would offer "increased visibility into 'booked' versus 'actually spent' data, letting corporations track and trend critical items, including reports of cancelled trips, hotel properties honoring negotiated rates, ancillary fees charged by airlines" as well as "realistic per-passenger name record pricing that keeps administrative costs to a minimum."