iisii Software leverages .NET
for their principle of "one platform, one database, one system",
effective shipboard property management.
Profile
Established in October 2000, iisii Software, based in Salzburg,
Austria, is a privately owned company with three management
staffers, and two off-shore development teams with a total
of eight developers.
iisii is a software services company, focusing on development,
sales, and support, specifically for the Cruise Ship industry
and the local hospitality industry. They have developed applications
addressing business functions such as purchasing and stock
control, crew administration and payroll, passenger manifest
reporting, passenger accounts receivables, comment card analysis,
AVO logging, US Immigration, APIS interfacing, automatic cabin
allocation, restaurant reservation, prepaid gratuity distribution,
among others.
Customer Situation
iisii Cruise wanted to create a shipboard Property
Management System for the Cruise industry with the lowest
Cost of Ownership. It needed a highly reliable and stable
software development environment with low administrative
and maintenance costs.
Through this system, they wanted to automate business
functions such as point-of-sale, excursions sales, accounting
and gangway access control, inventory and purchasing
and crew management. The solution needed to have the
capability to scale from a yacht-sized ship or river
cruiser with 100 passengers to midsized and large passenger
vessels with capacities of 3,000 passengers or more. |
iisii Cruise follows the principle: 'One platform,
one database, one system'. When we designed iisii
Cruise, the goal was to beat all other solutions
in the market in three key areas: ease of use,
robustness against user errors and technical complexity.
We were determined to provide a system that runs
with minimal intervention, and did not require
expert knowledge for its maintenance and administration.
Today we have achieved that goal with our product.
Dr. Josef Ganitzer
President
iisii Software
www.iisiicruise.com |
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While developing this enterprise-wide solution,
we wanted to give real value to our customers,
not only for today, but most importantly for tomorrow.
.NET has helped us deliver a costeffective, reliable
and scalable solution, which took minimum time
to market the product. .NET is a technology we
chose to bet our future on.
Vishwas Mahajan
CEO
Compulink Systems
www.compulink.co.in |
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Solution
Compulink Systems (India), a Microsoft Certified Partner,
built the application leveraging Microsoft .NET and
keeping the customer's future needs in mind.
The product addresses scalablility through Web services
that enable interaction with external Web-based systems.
The system supports multi-lingual interfaces and print
formats. The user interface is aesthetic and easy to
navigate. .NET allows easy deployment and the system
can be handled by IT Support personnel with basic technical
skills.
The solution automates the entire cruise ship process,
right from reservations, to check-in, point-of-sale,
front-office, back-office (including financial reports),
checkouts, and excursion sales. The system also automates
data integration for Credit Card swipes between servers
and the point-of-sale system. |
Benefits
Through .NET, Compulink was able to create a scalable solution
with a low Total Cost of Ownership. In addition, the solution
gave 24x7 uptime.
.NET makes the solution easy-to-maintain, and portable. The
solution makes room for costeffective implementations of functional
modules, thus rapidly accelerating the time-tomarket.
Partner: Compulink Systems |
