Monday, 25 April 2016

Hospitality Industry Solution

Client:


The client is a US based software product organization specializing in servicing hospitality industry by offering business development software and services hotels need to generate, book, and manage new group business combined with powerful field research and lead generation with sales force automation and meetings management along with the support of an experienced sales team. The company through its products and online applications serves different hotels in US and Mainland Europe – Germany, France, Spain and Belgium.


Business Needs:

§  Distributed retail chain management

§  Consolidation issues of multiple applications

§  Consolidation of challenging processes

§  Consistency & relevance of information

§  Issues with non-technical users


§  Retention of customers (It costs 10x more to attract a new customer )

§  Increase the spending of existing customers

§  Shift spending to higher margin products

§  Improve the natural churn rate of customers

§  Identification of profitable customers


Solution:

§  Each loyalty plan can be configured to apply on selected stores and on Special days such as Customer Anniversaries, public holidays, festivals etc.


§  The plan also provide options to exclude items on discounts, price overrides, promotions, layaways etc.


  • The plans award rewards in a hybrid mode, i.e. while one line item can award points, the other can award currency thus providing complete flexibility to the user.


Benefits:


  • Interact with your customer more while they burn the loyalty points at POS
  • Engage while educating customers, ways to earn more points
  • Listen the Most When you Least Want To - Feedback
  • Follow up with new loyalty offers & schemes
  • Identify the regular customers and reward them with additional discounts/comforts
  • Improvement in the supply chain efficiency
  • Customer loyalty is vertical independent
  • Ability to influence customer behavior

Technology Platform:



  • ASP.Net, AJAX, IIS 7, MS Enterprise library, WCF, Web services
  • UI : Telerik control kit
  • Unit Testing : MsTest
  • Mobile Platform : IOS, Android technology
  • Databases : Sql Server 2008
  • Reports: Sql Server 2008 Reporting Services
  • Build and Integration : Jenkins
  • SCRUM management : OnTime