Blue Star Infotech launches Accelerator for providing mobility-based Ground Transportation search and booking solutions
Leading Travel Distribution Solutions specialist, Blue Star Infotech announced the availability of a mobility solution accelerator for the ground transportation industry. This solution will be demonstrated at the upcoming Travel Technology Show, London, 9 – 10 Feb ’10.
The accelerator enables ground transportation services providers and other intermediaries to provide their customers with the ability to search, book and track ground bookings (car, taxi, limo services) via their iPhone or Blackberry devices. The accelerator includes customizable workflows to facilitate the search and booking process and can be integrated to the inventory and payment systems as well as external applications such as Google Weather, Yahoo Local Search, etc. to provide value-added information along with the booking. Location-specific information services can be provided by integrating with Google Maps. The map integration also enables customers to quickly find the nearest rental office, view the available cars at that location and make a booking.
About Blue Star Infotech:
Part of the US$ 700M Blue Star Group, and with operations in North America, Europe, UK, Japan and India, Blue Star Infotech delivers high-performance technology-based services by adopting a partnering approach with its clients. Blue Star Infotech is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Oracle Certified Partner, HP Business Partner, SAS Silver Partner, Kentico Certified Partner, Sitecore Certified Solution Partner, Platform Lab Partner and Member of HTNG.
Blue Star Infotech’s solutions, covering the travel distribution ecosystem, include Travel 2.0 Portals with Integrated Booking Engines, Dynamic Packaging, XML Switches, Rules Driven Distribution solutions, Modernisation of Legacy systems, Social Media integration Mobile Channel Enablement, and Mid/Back office integration.
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