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QIK (Qantas Intelligent Keypad) is an intelligent airline agent application first developed in the late 1980s as a front end to mainframe computer reservations systems. QIK was designed & developed by a startup within Qantas Airways〔(Safari Business Books Online - 0619074736 - IT Project Management, Second Edition )〕 called Qadrant, as a productivity tool for use in the airline's reservation call centres. The Q.I.K. acronym was derived from its use of a separate keypad attached to the keyboard. The keys on the keypad acted as function keys. In later versions the physical keyboard was disposed of and replaced with a logical keypad represented as a quadrant on the user's screen mapped to standard QWERTY keyboard (F1-F12) function keys. Marketed under the brands QIK,〔 QIK-RES〔(2005 Computerworld Honors Program )〕 & QIK-CHEK〔 these applications encapsulate airline business rules in a PC-based smart application and send the required transactions to the airline mainframe or host for processing. In doing the training time for an airline agent could be reduced from six weeks to two weeks. In addition the automation of host transactions eliminated format entry errors. This reduced the need to resend transactions and led to a reduction in mainframe usage costs for airlines. In the early 1990s Qantas formed a joint venture operation with DMR Consulting to market QIK and other transportation IT solutions under the name of Qadrant International. In 1997 DMR Consulting purchased the remaining 49% stock of Qadrant off Qantas Airlines to become the sole owner of the company.〔(DMR Buys Qadrant - Strategic Move into the Transportation Industry. - Free Online Library )〕 Qadrant went on to develop later versions of QIK in conjunction with Sabre Decision Technologies (SDT),〔(Sabre Airline Solutions )〕 an AMR/American Airlines subsidiary. This joint development exercise expanded QIK from the DOS platform to the OS/2 & Windows platforms and was brought to market as QIK-II. This collaboration continued and QIK-II was migrated to the SITA's Common Use Airport platform CUTE/OS. Now the majority of QANTAS workstations use Novell's Application delivery system to deliver them an emulated version through infoconnect. QIK-CHEK & QIK-RES are also sold as part of the TurboSabre suite by Sabre Systems.〔(Products and Services )〕 QIK applications are used by more than 70 airlines〔(Sabre Holdings :: Investor Information :: News Releases )〕 worldwide. ==Airlines known to use QIK== *Air Canada *Air New Zealand *American Airlines *Austrian Airlines *Bangkok Airways〔(About Us > Company Profile (Bangkok Airways Co., Ltd.) )〕 *British Airways *Caribbean Star Airlines〔(Caribbean Star Airlines and Caribbean Sun Airlines Choose Sabre Airline Solutions' Qik to Customize Reservations and Airport Check-In; User-Friendly GUI Will Reduce Operations Expenses While Increasing Productivity.(Company overview) - Journal, Magazine, Article, Periodical )〕 *Caribbean Sun Airlines〔 *Cathay Pacific Airways *Dragonair *EVA Airways *Finnair *Lufthansa〔(Lufthansa and South African Airways upgrade to Sabre Qik Developer Tool. | Transportation > Air Transportation from AllBusiness.com )〕 *Qantas *Scandinavian Airlines *South African Airways〔 *Southwest Airlines *US Airways〔(Merger On The Fly - US Airways - InformationWeek )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「QIK」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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