Distributed  Reservation Co-operation

One of the main issues in conducting business on the Internet is handling the instantaneous relationships that can be established between buyers, hoteliers/tour operators and reservation centres. E-business in itself presupposes that the typical retail and channel marketing, development, etc., has been established and a suitable website with reservation abilities has been put in place.

IMS Voyager is a future generation extensible software using PHP and MySQL assembled using our new knowledge based ‘Multi-Objective Optimization Schema’ (MOS®) methodology for deriving widespread non-dominated distributed market scalable solutions.

Typical reservation and ecommerce solutions currently in place and available today are technically designed to achieve only one optimum objective function, which is to connect buyer to seller, i.e., ‘A reservation desk or shopping cart’. These ‘desk/carts’ typically act as the cash-point in a hotel, retail store or online business and do not readily facilitate integration into a complete business model.

As such, after a detailed study of co-operative distributed business environments our objective was to design and realize software that would enable any business to readily execute distributed and co-operative ecommerce on the Internet.

In MOS^®, architectural design consideration was given to the sub-populations that drive most business models, such as: supply, inventory control, RevPar, marketing, merchandising, sales, rate distribution, travel agents/channel resellers, customers and final delivery to that end-user or purchaser, i.e., order fulfillment.

As each of these sub-populations does not exist by its self, but in cooperation with others, only IMS Voyager provides the ability to satisfy all sub-populations of a business model. IMS Voyager can be installed and ordered with the best solutions and dynamic adjustments for businesses with a wide variety of sub-population requirements.

IMS Voyager developed using MOS clearly demonstrates the concurrent execution of a typical business model and reflects the true concurrency that is present in business sub-populations and more closely corresponds as an eBusiness solution to the way in which the majority of hotel & tour businesses are physically implemented and operated.