Companies need to compete against former partners, partner with former competitors and thrive amid rapidly changing conditions and intense uncertainty.

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The challenge is that changing those five requires the work of a whole network of partner agencies.

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At Fort Worth-based Travelocity.com, Preview Travel's merger partner, Vignette software allows programmers to automate the search-and-grab of ever-changing data from hundreds of suppliers and display it in thousands of combinations.

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