Sabre Travel Network announced a new traveler profile system meant to completely replace the current Stars system.

Residing "inside the Sabre environment in a relational database and built in open systems," Sabre Profiles includes a new graphical user interface part of the Sabre Red Workspace and connections to human resources data feeds and other Sabre services, according STN senior vice president Chris Kroeger, speaking during a Wednesday media briefing. Already underway, the global rollout will continue into 2013, Kroeger said, at which point "all our customers will be operating in the new Sabre Profiles environment." Profiles combines an individual traveler's corporate and leisure profiles, offers enhanced profile search capabilities and ensures consistency across offline, online and mobile channels, according to Sabre. It also allows agencies to offer customized and tailored services and integrate third-party applications and CRM systems. For corporate travel programs, Kroeger said the new system can connect corporate and traveler preferences "much more tightly, so that corporate programs can be managed while meeting the unique needs of travelers."