The holidays are still several months away, but for software development teams in the travel industry, 
the “hustle and bustle” of the season is already here.
If you think about the ways you make your business or personal travel plans today, you’ll begin to appreciate the increasingly complex software development challenges travel websites present – and the importance of advanced SCM tools.
Just 10 or 15 years ago, many of us were still making travel arrangements through an agent – on the phone or in-person. We may have gone online to check out a hotel and moved to another site to check on flights – and yet another to rent a car.
Today, travel websites like Kayak and Orbitz bring together all these consumer options and more – and others include frequent flyer miles, preferred guest points and other information related to our travel plans, often involving outside partners. All of these variables are changing rapidly and are updated dynamically and in real time on travel websites. This places greater demands on software development teams – teams that are increasingly distributed across multiple time zones and locations.
Also important to note is that the changes and updates these teams are called on to make are increasingly “business-critical.” A software glitch or a site crash can result in major revenue losses, not to mention the residual consumer frustration and damage to the brand.
More variables, more frequent updates and a more business-critical focus — now magnify all this during the many times of peak travel or weather-related interruptions and one begins to understand why more advanced SCM tools are required in the travel industry today.
Basic software development tools may have been fine for some organizations in travel — smaller airlines or hotels with more basic informational web sites that aren’t designed to process high volume reservations and transactions. But such basic sites are becoming a rarity in the travel industry, leading more and more travel and hospitality businesses to turn to more advanced software development solutions.
AccuRev’s SCM solutions are designed to handle today’s most complex software development challenges, which explains the growth we’re seeing in travel and hospitality business customers.
So when the holidays draw near and you go online to book a hotel, schedule a flight or rent a car, you can thank all of those software developers that have been working hard behind the scenes to make sure the site is up and running 24/7.
