Why Athena Innovations?

IT SOLUTION THAT WORKS

Athena emphasises on providing technology that works in travel agencies. We train, explain and manage the automation such that all the staffs of a travel agency use the system correctly. Athena insists the end result of the exercise must increase productivity and raise the manageability level. If there is a need of customisation, we will deliver the necessary changes to fulfil the agency's requirement in best effort possible. Our seriousness and attentiveness in all our implementation has earned trust from our customers.

FASTEST GROWING TRAVEL SOLUTION PROVIDER IN ASIA PACIFIC

Following our market-entry in Oct 2002, we have cut-over more than 15 travel agencies locations to Athena Bookings (and other products). More than 220 workstations are installed and equivalent number of users are trained. To this date, all customers have expressed satisfaction from the delivered systems. In addition, our users are demanding more from us which, in our perspective, show the acceptance of the Athena products and the 'anxiety' to expand the scope of the system in their businesses.

BEST VALUE TECHNOLOGY

Athena prides itself to provide technology that works. The start-up cost of implementing Athena products is low - merely a server capable of serving the number of users in the agency. There is no need to purchase expensive large server, RDBMS database*, high network capacity, etc etc. We do not sell our customers hardware equipment unless otherwise requested. We only want to provide solutions that works. Period.

GDS NEUTRAL

Athena's products interface to all major GDSs in Asia Pacific - Abacus, Galileo Amadeus. The Athena SMART interface module can extract information directly from the GDSs screen and/or IUR (Abacus), AIR (Amadeus) and MIR (Galileo). With this facility, a travel agency can have interfaces to one or all GDSs at the same time. Back Office is able to extract all auto-tickets from the 3 GDSs and reconciles with BSP. Most importantly, the travel agency is able to migrate from one GDS to another without any change to the front/mid/back offices, thus reducing the impact of the migration.

FULL SUITE OF PRODUCTS

To complement the growth and business direction of travel agencies, Athena provides products from internal TMS (Travel Management Systems), to Business Intelligence Solution, to Fares and Pricing, to eCommerce application. The full suite of products guarantees single data repository, extension of travel agency's businesses, additional channels of distribution, and expansion of business into Internet-based.

SUPPORT COMMITMENT

Our support is second to none. Our current customers can ascertain our claim. Our support staffs are fully trained in using the products and understand travel agencies operations. We usually respond immediately to any user's call and try to rectify the issue there and then. In some cases, we would get back within 2-4 hours from time of call if further investigation needs to be made. Our aim to ensure the IT back-bone of the travel agency works without any stoppage.

NON-STOP IMPROVEMENT TO OUR PRODUCTS

Due to the adaptation of Microsoft technology in our development area, we are able to provide the SHORTEST time-to-market enhancements to our products. We could customise certain functions to a travel agency within days, compare to weeks from other providers. In addition, we continue to work with our users' feedback and discuss the best possible ways to improve agencies' operations through Athena products.

CONCLUSION

There are many travel solution providers in Asia Pacific. Most the systems offered fulfil only certain needs and lack of other necessary functions. Some of the worse cases, the solution comes from foreign countries where there is a big difference in practices and force the agencies to conform to the system rather than vice versa. We have seen bad and very bad systems which cause sufferings to travel agencies. Travel business is affected, employee turn-over on the rise, accounts that cannot be closed, funds are missing and debtors queries about their statement are just few incidents that could happen. Be careful at what you install in your agency!

Athena rides on reputation and commitment to our customers. We do not just sell systems for the sake for selling. We will justify the business value to our customers. We will make sure the products work in the travel agency. And we will support you for many many years to come.

Just to be sure, you are more than welcome to call our customers and ask them opinions about Athena products.

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