BEinGRID TravelCRM

BEinGRID (Business Experiments in GRID) was the largest integrated project funded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) priority in the EC’s sixth research Framework Programme (FP6). The BEinGRID consortium was composed of over ninety partners who ran more than twenty Business Experiments designed to implement and deploy Grid solutions in key industrial and commercial sectors.

Grid technology is at a critical transition as it moves from research and academic use to wider adoption by business and enterprise. The use of Grid technology brings many benefits such as the optimisation of IT resources and increased business flexibility with consequent reductions in overall cost and risk for end-users. Grids enable large complex systems to be utilised effectively, allow the sharing of networked resources, and support new business processes across distributed administrative domains.

The increase in do-it-yourself travel sites means that, to stay in business, travel agencies need to improve the service they offer to existing clients and find ways to capture new ones. The TravelCRM Business Experiment involved the pooling of data from groups of travel agencies in order to generate enough information for useful Business Intelligence analysis.

IT Innovation worked with Grid Systems to integrate our GRIA middleware with Grid Systems' Fura middleware. Together, we worked with the e-commerce technology provider Valadis and travel companies Avantours and Versys Travel.

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BEinGRID received research funding from the EC’s Sixth Framework Programme.