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Reaching global markets: How Transhotel built a platform for worldwide growth
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
- 网络与连接 - 网络管理和分析软件
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 销售与市场营销
用例
- 网络安全
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
- 系统集成
挑战
Transhotel, a global travel services provider, was facing challenges with its expanding client base and the increasing reliance on the internet for conducting business. The company needed a reliable and responsive technology platform that would allow close collaboration between the company and its clients. The company was also looking to expand into new markets, including Asia, Russia, Latin America, and India. The challenge was to ensure that the business could maintain and build on its growth without being hampered by speed or latency problems. The company's main website, www.transhotel.com, has a daily turnover of over 50,000 operations, most of which are room availability enquiries. 90% of these operations are served on the end-user’s computer in less than 5 seconds. The company needed a solution that would ensure speedy and uninterrupted access to the applications and websites, thus improving the end user’s experience.
关于客户
Transhotel is a Spanish global travel services provider founded in 1994. The company has branches in 24 countries all over the world, essentially in Europe and the Americas but also in Asia, where it now has a presence and in India, Singapore and China. The Transhotel group serves 78,800 travel agency customers worldwide, providing a portfolio of over 60,000 hotels and tourist services in 147 countries via multiple online websites, with international revenues growing steadily year on year. 94% of Transhotel’s business activity is carried out through the TOR System Advanced platform that was developed by the company and launched in 2008. Currently over 50,000 of Transhotel travel agency customers from all over the world use the platform daily and make on average 3.4 million enquiries on the availability of services. In 2011 the platform allowed the booking of over 3.5million overnight stays.
解决方案
Transhotel decided to deploy web acceleration services from a well-known and reputable supplier, CDNetworks. CDNetworks’ Dynamic Web Acceleration services would help the company service its growing customer base, expand into new markets and provide the kind of web performance that would keep its clients happy regardless of geographic location. The implementation of CDNetworks’ solutions was quite transparent and simple, and Transhotel did it themselves. In only four weeks the CDNetworks service was in full operation and was working exactly as needed. The company was also pleasantly surprised with CDNetworks’ ability to provide a flexible global service at a competitive price point. The flexibility of the CDNetworks approach has allowed Transhotel to reach its goals at a very reasonable cost. The migration to CDNetworks has given Transhotel a saving of 50% compared with its previous supplier.
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