Steffi Schweden

steffi.schweden@bewotec.de
Phone +49 (0)2205 – 8964 – 0

BEWOTEC Software Entwicklungs- und Vertriebs- GmbH
Karl-Schiller-Str. 3, 51503 Rösrath/Germany

www.bewotec.de

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The company, based in Rösrath near Cologne, has been successfully supporting companies from the travel industry in relevant IT processes with its innovative strength since 1988. 120 competent employees currently work for BEWOTEC and together support more than 3,500 customers throughout Europe. The team includes travel experts, IT specialists, career changers and professionals who make the company one of the leading providers of software solutions in the travel industry.

The free reservation system myCRS and the travel agency software myJACK with midoffice and accounting are available for travel sales. myJACK also supports travel agencies in the digital transformation of work and sales processes. Tour operators work with the DaVinci tour operator system, OTDS Player and flex solutions for dynamic packaging. Internationally active tour operators rely on BEWOTEC just as much as cruise lines, medium-sized beach vacation providers or specialty tour operators.

History
Michael Becher founded the company in 1988 and developed the first Windows-based mid and back-office system for travel agencies in Europe: “Jack”. Following on from this success, DaVinci was created ten years later, which is an allotment management system for tour operators. In 2001, more than 2,500 travel agencies across Europe were working with Jack. The system was officially endorsed by Amadeus and certified as a Global Solution Partner by Galileo.

Three years later, we finally saw the fifth version of DaVinci as an SQL-based and freely scalable application for all types of operators on the market. myJACK saw the proverbial light of day in 2012. With that, Bewotec created the first and only complete solution for travel agencies that comes with a free integrated CRS and is firmly linked with process management. The following year, the company from Rösrath developed the first open data standard, OTDS. The hub and player technology used in the format revolutionised the dynamic packaging of travel services from that moment on. In 2016, FlexStore was created as a new, web-based tour operator software that allows a dynamic travel offer to go online within minutes and also allows for the sale of all conventional products.

For travel agencies

myJACK, the travel agency software
With myJACK, which replaced the JACK PLUS travel agency software in 2013, the workload for tourism back-offices and all accounting activities was reduced to a minimum. From making the booking in the CRS, right up to entering the customer details, myJACK performs all processes in an almost fully automated way. This gives the users more time for the most important job at a travel agency: selling holidays.
With myJACK, users can manage their accounting and administration in a quick and effective way. The manual workload can be minimised and account statements and tour operator billing statements can be issued automatically.


myCRS, the free reservation system
myCRS, BEWOTEC’s free reservation system, offers bookings with over 150 tour operators, including those offering dynamic packaging. Furthermore, additional services, such as rental cars, parking spaces and transfers can be booked using the familiar Expert interface. IRIS.plus, consolidators and travel insurance are all integrated.
Meine Reisedaten
Meine Reisedaten [English: My Travel Data] is a personalised travel package portal and a customer app in one. Users can create personalised travel packages that the customer can view online using a web code. The information on pricing and availability is automatically updated. In this way, the advantages of a face-to-face consultation in a brick-and-mortar travel agency can be very easily combined with the benefits of online travel agencies.

For tour operators

DaVinci
DaVinci offers users practically everything in a single product: in terms of purchasing, the system shows all variations of tourism services. Moreover, the dynamic APIs for flight and hotel bookings offer a large amount of flexibility. The products can be sent straight to sales systems like Stadis, Cets and Bistro. Using the API, all possibilities for designing a personalised offer are open. The state-of-the-art Cube-based evaluation system provides analyses with complete transparency for business processes. Last but not least, DaVinci offers a high level of automation, which allows all recurring tasks in travel planning to be automated – this includes notifying service providers, printing invoices and creating travel documents.

Consultation with Once Click
The portfolio is completed with an extremely convenient and quick search for available and price-tested offers, under the name One Click. As the name suggests, the new user interface brings results with just a single click. As such, sales staff can offer customers the best possible assistance when searching for the perfect holiday. The benefits at a glance:
• Intuitive interface with a full text search
• Accurate information on pricing and availability
• Descriptions and photos
• Presentation of results using a map
• Shopping basket

Dynamic packaging
The flexStore software offers a completely new solution for dynamic tour operators. This leaves the world of sales systems fully open. The packages can be created in real time. Products can be booked immediately in all sales systems, such as Bistro, CosmoNaut, LM-Plus and myJACK Shop. To assist with the sales process, there are mark-up calculations available for countries, regions and hotels. flexStore runs in the Bewotec cloud. The dashboard shows users the most important statistics and figures. Unrestricted auto-mapping speeds up data entry and bulk changes. DaVinci and flexStore are designed to be compatible with each other and are also linked to the OTDS Player. All of the benefits of the OTDS format and the Player’s rapid search technology are therefore available for all kinds of tour operation. 25 airlines are associated via flexFlight – including all the usual low-cost carriers. flexHotel forms the gateway to key bed banks and incoming agencies.

OTDS Player – the sales and production system
Just a few years after entering the market, the OTDS format has conquered the world of sales systems. Furthermore, Bewotec offers the rapid search technology found in the OTDS Player. This allows for tour operators to store travel package offers in OTDS and share them with all conventional sales platforms (Bistro, Internet, OTAs).
The benefits:
• Extremely short response times
• 100% accurate real-time pricing
• Significantly reduced production times
• Reduced data volumes
• Real-time updates of prices and availability
One particular strength of the OTDS Player is that it offers simple inclusion of tour operators’ own products in dynamic offers from external service providers. Using BEWOTEC’s central software services flexFlight and flexHotel, flights and hotels from external providers can be loaded into the OTDS Player if necessary. The Player then combines the flight and hotel details into a package deal at the time the request is made.
Unlimited possibilities for use: the universal language of OTDS means that every tour operator and service provider system can load data in the OTDS Player. Users are not dependent on BEWOTEC’s own production systems for tour operators. Nevertheless, DaVinci and flexStore are perfectly compatible with OTDS.