SITA requests airlines to trial new API platform

SITA's research technology team, SITA Lab, invited airlines and developers to join trials of developer.aero. This is the API (application programming interface) developers' portal which SITA Lab is now moving into its next phase of development.According to a release, the platform is being designed to enable airlines, airports and other industry players to extend existing IT processes by harnessing the application developer community to provide new apps for the industry and world travellers.
 Jim Peters, CTO, SITA, said, “API-client architecture is the key enabler that is driving new-gen app development and allowing apps to be developed for virtually any platform. Exposing data or processes through APIs allows developers to create features that will benefit everybody. It opens the possibility of solutions being created that the companies might not have the resources to develop or for which they might not have even anticipated a consumer need.