Reengineering a Hotel Reservation System

About

The customer was seeking front-end migration of their hotel booking system from Silverlight to Angular as part of their digital transformation strategy.

Capability

Product Engineering

Industry

Travel & Hospitality

Country

Brazil

Key Features

The modernized, secure booking engine now covers every aspect of a hotel reservation software. It made room-booking far more convenient for the customers and increased the profitability of the hotel.

Simplified booking

Easy navigation enables travelers with a convenient option to register, cancel, or alter the individual/group bookings from a mobile or desktop platform

Easy to find information

Distraction-free design helps reduce the challenge for searching details such as room descriptions, rates and amenities

Room inventory dashboard

A centralized repository with real-time access to hotel information, room inventory and more while eliminating the discrepancies of rates and availability

Improved marketing avenues

The optimized website helped increased conversion rates with enhanced upselling & cross-selling opportunities for in-built sales & marketing initiatives

Challenges

Migration of containers from outdated Silverlight to new-age Angular
Lack of support from Microsoft for legacy Silverlight technology
Complex processes cross-border legal & currency aspects that need incorporation in the solution
Rigorous testing of the system performance and verification of API response with no in-house skill with client

Solution

Rishabh’s team made the application scalable, faster, user-friendly and secure. We thoroughly analyzed the existing application architecture, RESTful API contracts and then developed custom templates and containers using Angular for modernizing the hotel booking system.

Agile approach

Executed the migration strategy with a top to down approach by keeping the process concise and addressing the common pain points for the ongoing transformation

Modernization

We implemented multiple features supported by Angular / Typescript, including lazy loading, strict typing, model-driven API calls and more to make the application easier to use, test, maintain and evolve

Migration

Analyzed the MVVM patterns that offer separation between app logic & UI to provide the same functionalities of the existing application with developed reusable components, followed by application testing & code quality review

Responsiveness

The responsive layout helped offer a holistic hotel booking system, with interactive plug and play widgets, competitor’s rate analysis tool, metasearch connectivity and more