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Design, development and support of a social networking portal targeted at Business Air Travelers.
The Customer
The customer is a startup internet services company planning to launch a combination of an on-line booking engine (e.g. Expedia) and a
social networking site (e.g. LinkedIn) specifically targeting Business Air Travelers.
Solution:
The customer chose SolovatSoft to implement their internet solution with the following features:
Ability for users to create their personal profile
Ability for users to create/upload their travel itineraries
Ability for users to create/upload their social network.
Ability for users to search for other users with similar itineraries.
Ability for users to communicate with other users for the purposes of meeting during a trip.
Ability for users to perform on-line booking of airline tickets.
Ability for users to perform purchase/reservations.
SolovatSoft designed and integrated the following modules:
Trip management (add, edit, delete, active, inactive, searchable, etc)
Social network (download contacts from Outlook, Linkedin, Manually).
Connect with users and associate registered users with specific trips.
Airline tickets booking engine.
Trip Alert (1.When people in My Network plan trips
that coincide with My Trips (traveling to the same city at the same time); 2.When people in My Network plan trips to my home city;
3. Before I leave for one of My Trips with a list of contacts who will be at my destination).
The Benefits:
- The developed solutions supports up to 100,000 registered users.
- It has an advanced social networking and ticket booking/purchasing services and supports about 10,000 new visitors per day,
and option to charge service fees after the Portal will become more popular.
- SolovatSoft solution has low operating costs and can service a large pool of potential customers.
Technologies used: MS Windows Server 2003, IIS6, MS SQL 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, XML, AJAX
