What Advanced Reporting Means to a Travel Agency
By David Eddy on Nov 10, 2015 7:00:00 AM
What is advanced reporting in today’s travel industry? In this article it's defined as leveraging Big Data and data analytics to make smarter and faster strategic, operational, marketing and sales decisions. Big Data? It means there’s a huge amount of travel data available to mine for …
A Foolproof Recipe for a Disastrous Travel ERP Selection
By David Eddy on Nov 5, 2015 10:59:39 AM
As noted in an earlier post, there are compelling reasons for travel companies to invest in enterprise resource planning systems. These range from a desire to cut operational costs through automation; be able to exchange data with travel partners more quickly and easily; increase reve …
Responsive Travel Websites are Crucial for Success
By David Eddy on Nov 3, 2015 7:00:00 AM
The benefits of a responsive travel website are so compelling there’s no point in even trying to make the case companies in the travel industry can succeed without one. No doubt some are trying, but they’ve put themselves in roughly the same position as a brick-and-mortar store operat …
Compelling Reasons to look for a Cloud-based ERP Travel Industry Solution
By David Eddy on Oct 29, 2015 7:00:00 AM
Two earlier posts addressed topics closely related to the subject of this blog: one covered the reasons why travel software-as-a-service (Travel SaaS) is an attractive technology model for companies in the this industry; the second discussed how the travel industry is using process au …
The Travel Industry is Cutting Costs with Back Office Automation
By David Eddy on Oct 22, 2015 7:00:00 AM
With continuing consolidation, intense competition and a global economy seemingly unable to break free from lackluster growth, there is relentless pressure on travel companies to discover new ways of: differentiating from competitors; marketing with better results; developing even mor …