Best Western Taps Nexaweb Technologies to Optimize Intranet Applications for Hotel Members.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2003 Best Western, THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN(R), and Nexaweb Technologies Inc., a software products company, announced today that Best Western will be using the Nexaweb technology to implement thin-client, high performance, Rich Internet Applications This is a list of rich Internet applications. They are organised by their use. Communication
Using Nexaweb, Best Western will allow users to access its MemberWeb applications more quickly and efficiently. Early usage tests of Best Western's Nexaweb-enabled application show performance improvements of 87 percent, and network traffic reduction of over 90 percent. Using Nexaweb, only the information that is changed on the MemberWeb site is sent to or from the central office versus the entire web page. This efficiency allows users to be more productive updating room rates, setting availability and analyzing statistics, therefore freeing Best Western to focus on providing superior service to their guests. The result is that Nexaweb is a more efficient and cost effective approach for delivering business-critical applications over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Nexaweb is ideal for companies moving traditional mainframe or client/server applications to a web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. model specifically for chain-wide implementations where applications are centrally hosted and managed for hotels. "Delivering rich, responsive web applications to thousands of geographically dispersed dis·perse v. dis·persed, dis·pers·ing, dis·pers·es v.tr. 1. a. To drive off or scatter in different directions: The police dispersed the crowd. b. properties using traditional internet tools and methods, such as via satellite, proved inadequate for our brand," said Mike Kistner, Best Western CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. and vice president. "As a company sensitive to the needs of our membership, Best Western is constantly in search of ways to provide a better experience for its more than 4,100 hotels worldwide. Nexaweb was able to help us deliver significant cost savings while enhancing overall system performance over infrastructure alternatives," added Kistner. "We were impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: with Best Western's commitment to their membership in seeking the very best solution to serve their customers," said Larry Geisel, Nexaweb's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "By involving the Best Western staff at every stage, we were able to work together to exceed their expectations in performance and usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. ." Best Western's enhanced MemberWeb applications will be available for beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the in November. Additional enhancements will be added in the coming months. About Nexaweb Technologies, Inc. Nexaweb develops innovative software products that unleash the potential of the Web for the extended enterprise: thin-client, high-performance Rich Internet Applications. Nexaweb helps corporations improve business performance by powering enterprise Web applications that deliver more value to their customers, differentiate their offerings, grow their business and profits, while lowering technology costs and boosting the return on technology investments. Nexaweb helps enterprise IT organizations develop and deploy thin-client, high-performance Rich Internet Applications quickly and easily, without upgrading infrastructure, changing tools, or adding additional layers of cost and complexity, while future-proofing the architecture for mobile and Occasionally Connected Computing Occasionally Connected Computing or OCC is a term used in computing for an architecture or framework which permits running some aspects of a web application when not connected to the internet. This is sometimes a feature of a Rich Internet Application or RIA. . For more information about Nexaweb visit www.nexaweb.com. About Best Western International Best Western International (www.bestwestern.com) is THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOTEL CHAIN(R). As of the company's third fiscal quarter ending August 31, the brand had 4,105 hotels in more than 80 countries and territories. It is a membership association of independently owned and operated hotels that provides marketing, reservations and operational support to its member hotels. |
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