Thomas Cook India Launches Integrated Travel Portal on broadvision Business Agility Suite 8.1
Thomas Cook India Launches Integrated Travel Portal on broadvision Business Agility Suite 8.1REDWOOD CITY, Calif.CA-BROADVISION
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
BroadVision, Inc., (OTCBB:BVSN), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today announces that Thomas Cook (India) Ltd, India's largest integrated travel and travel related services company, has launched an integrated travel portal,
www.thomascook.in, on the BroadVision® Business Agility Suite' 8.1 solution to offer end-to-end travel services to its customers.
The new travel portal will form an integral part of Thomas Cook (India) Ltd's integrated travel distribution network, spread across more than 160 outlets and over 200 partners.
'Today, 75% of e-commerce spending is attributed to online travel booking,' says Mr.
Udayan Bose, Chairman of Thomas Cook (India) Limited. 'An average young entrepreneur traveling for work or holiday uses Internet for addressing most of his travel needs, and we want to tap into this large market and cater to their needs effectively.'
'With BroadVision's agile development toolset, we were able to develop a complex full service travel portal addressing multiple user groups -- B2B, B2C and B2E rapidly,' commented Mr. Amitabh Pandey, President and Head ' E-Business. 'Not only that, compared with conventional development environment where we might have incurred 2.5 times and 3 times more in both costs and timeline, we were able to launch the sites with much lower costs (1.5 times) and in a shorter timeline (1.2 times).'
'BroadVision solutions are designed with such agility and robustness so we can help customers build e-business websites not only to fit their needs, but also within their aggressive timelines,' concluded Dr. Pehong Chen, President and CEO of BroadVision. 'The launch of the Thomas Cook India travel site provides another great proof point of the robustness of our solutions: flexible enough to adapt quickly to changing business conditions and scalable enough to facilitate different kinds of business requirements and deliver extraordinary results in a timely manner.'