Innovations
Travel & Hotel Database
The Hotel & Travel Database holds rates, itineraries, the inventory and provides a comprehensive tour operator system.
This database is a generic model that allows businesses to implement a variety of reservation systems.
The Travel & Hotel Database supports a number of bookable items, such as hotels, cars, activities and tickets. You can combine these items into packages and itineraries, and implement details down to unit costs. The Travel & Hotel Database comes with tools to input information and rates, and to connect to external systems.
Features:- Data Importer that supports XML and spreadsheets
- Travel API for online purchases and reservations.
- Hotel Editor, allowing content to be centrally defined.
API definition - API is a software-to-software interface- not a user interface- where applications talk to each other without any user knowledge or intervention. E.g. When you buy movie tickets online and enter your credit card information, the movie ticket website uses an API to send your credit card information to a remote application that verifies whether your information is correct. Once payment is confirmed, the remote application sends a response back to the movie ticket website, instructing it to issue the tickets. As a user, you only see one interface -- the movie ticket website but behind the scenes, many applications are working together using APIs.
Universal Booking Engine (UBE)
UBE is a multi-provider booking engine that enables visitors to visit your site to book vehicles, hotels and events.
Cytrus's UBE simplifies the technical requirements to go online, and provides an administrative interface for customer support as well as performance reports.
Cytrus Content Management System (CMS)
The Cytrus CMS allows you to create, modify, organise and remove information from your web site and create new Web pages without having any knowledge of HTML.
You can build interactive features such as online shopping, user reviews and online reservations using a combination of plug-ins and custom-built development. It is built on the Cake framework, ensuring that it does not compromise on support for standards and best practice.
The Cytrus CMS is a PHP based Content Management System (CMS) built for tweaked, customised websites with light overheads.
Search Service
Cytrus customised Lucene, a state of the art search engine, and added the features of Velicity, which allow you to fine-tune the layout of search results to provide you with the ultimate in site search.
Cytrus's Search Service:- is as fast and powerful as Google
- results are ordered according to intelligent, content-specific rules that meet your commercial goals, and
- display search results according to the underlying content type, thus maximising the relevance of what the user sees.
Infrastructure Tools
Report Server
Utilize reports on your website in a variety of formats and create and send ad hoc end user reports or scheduled reports. The report server is essential for management reports for web sites as well as in-house applications.
Overlord
The Overlord schedules and monitors processes and allows you to automate status monitoring of background processes, like data collection. Operations staff can set, view and edit these processes with the user-friendly dashboard.
Universal Site Deployer
Manage and deploy your site and versions of your site without any technical input.
The Universal Site Developer is ideal for Blue Chip customers and addresses the need to seamlessly maintain a development, staging and live website.
Tracking
This tool tracks the source of site visits, page transitions and exit pages and records site conversions for PPC and SEO measurement. Use it to create lifetime user records, and have persistent sessions or shopping carts on your site. Statistics are recorded to a database for billing and marketing performance measurement.
Up-sell and cross-sell like Amazon. Make recommendations, remember user preferences and reduce the effort of returning users to get to what they want.
Web Development Kit
When developing a site, Cytrus reuses the best of what we have done in the past, and direct our efforts towards enhancements that enrich the site and that support the commercial goals of the business.
Everything that Cytrus develops is a potential product that the world can use. Cytrus maintains a large repository of commonly used page elements, such as form input widgets, photo galleries, menu systems and layout templates.
Reuse allows Cytrus to constantly improve, and to minimise the time spent on non-value adding work.