Design, development and support of a social networking portal targeted at Business Air Travelers.

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 SolveITLabs 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.

SolveITLabs 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.
• SolveITLabs solution has low operating costs and can service a large pool of potential customers.

Technologies

MS Windows Server 2003, IIS6, MS SQL 2005, ASP.NET 2.0, XML, AJAX