Travel technology provider Amadeus announced the development of a new meetings platform.

Amadeus Corporate Suite, which the company plans to launch in the third quarter of 2014 in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Spain, calculates total cost per meeting and compares alternatives, such as videoconferencing, to find the most efficient options. The suite provides three options per meeting, including time and location suggestions. "The tool extracts any information relevant to the traveler, per their [meetings] profile information," Amadeus head of corporations and resellers Florian Tinnus told BTN. Profiles include the time and location of the meeting, public airfares, ground transportation options and other travel-related expenses. "With this data, we are able to do a pricing and scheduling search, while at the same time taking into account the travel policy of the corporation," Tinnus said. He added that the suite is "designed to be flexible and scalable to integrate content in the future."