Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Challanges Faced By Online Reservation Software, Their Causes and How To Overcome Them

After some research done by US Travel Association, in the year 2013 US alone had more than 90 million people who did their online booking through many of available reservation websites. These figure, just continue to grow since more and more people have begun to use these web services of online travel booking agencies.

As i told in my previous post, that a great change came in travel industry with the introduction of new booking system that allows users of any website to be more flexible with their choice, they do not have to follow the specific guidelines set by website owner, by displaying user reviews and rating they can choose their travel destination with more confidence.

As a user of these websites you can see that the data is updated frequently and in real time, providing you great user experience. There is considerable large pressure on the people working behind these software, i.e. software developers. To give you a general idea of their work pressure consider the amount of time and code that goes behind a single reservation or booking now multiply that by thousand of bookings that any major travel booking sites gets, that what happens in real time.

A major booking portal allows users to do booking for hotel, flight, car etc.In addition to these there are various other factors that are present to further increase the work load on these software developers, these factors are special offers, deals and unique service providers profile. Now consider all these and add the pressure created by peak travel times, specific weather related events that could disrupt users travel planning, also a single minor bug in website could result in big loss.

Now software developers over time has found a solution to the above problem, with which they can save time and make error-proof changes to the existing online travel reservation system software. By having a Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool, they can make changes to their existing software without having go through all the code, you can configure such tool for your software and then make changes as necessary.

Large numbers of developers in a software development team are responsible for smoothly running the website 24x7.Traditional software tools have been outgrown by websites which requires a robust software control solution to manage them. These online portals are not limited to just one location, they are distributed over several location around the world and run in parallel, managing all these software version with a single tool can be quite a task, SCM is designed to do well among all these challenges while providing a easy to use interface. 

While SCM is some help for travel booking industry, choosing the right software development process is also important in long term. Maco Online Travel Solution provided you a software with which customization and updating software takes less time and fewer resources.





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