e-Travel 'Goes With the Flow'; Unleashes Powerful New Capabilities With Oracle Workflow.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000 e-Travel, Inc., a leading provider of e-business solutions for corporate travel, and wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Oracle Corporation, today announced powerful new capabilities, including pre-trip approval and unfinished trip notification, using Oracle Workflow. This innovative tool makes it easy for corporations to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. business rules that extend the reach of business process automation throughout and beyond the enterprise to include any email or Web user. With Oracle Workflow, notifications are automatically sent to solicit input from managers, or to alert them to exception conditions that need immediate attention, enabling e-Travel customers to manage exceptions rather than transactions. With the new pre-trip approval feature, travel managers can define, at the user class level, specific rules for the level of approval that is required for business trips initiated using e-Traveler. Based on the date of travel and the user-class specific approval rules, the workflow engine Workflow engine is a software application meant to manage and execute modeled business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology. It will typically make use of a database server. determines the level of approval required for a business trip. Managers can either approve, reject or request modification of the trip. Once approved, the business trip is then routed for ticketing. Travelers are notified throughout the process. Also provided with workflow integration is the unfinished trip notification feature, which automatically notifies travelers of inventory they have reserved using e-Traveler. Travelers can then delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete. 1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible. unfinished trips and release inventory, or submit trips for ticketing. "Oracle Workflow is an example of a powerful technology that helps corporations and their travel managers exercise more control over the reservation process, and ultimately the travel budget," said John Ackermann, president and 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. of e-Travel, Inc. "The pre-trip approval and the unfinished trip notification features demonstrate the power of this tool. With subsequent releases of our Enterprise Travel Management suite, e-Travel will continue to integrate Oracle Workflow for even more sophisticated capabilities." About e-Travel, Inc. e-Travel, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation, hosts the e-Travel Marketplace, a comprehensive and integrated e-business solution for Enterprise Travel Management (ETM (database) ETM - An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe. ). The e-Travel Marketplace(TM) directly links travel buyers with travel suppliers, and supports the entire lifecycle of corporate travel operations. e-Travel Marketplace supplier and partner participants include Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, The Hertz hertz (hûrts) [for Heinrich R. Hertz], abbr. Hz, unit of frequency, equal to 1 cycle per second. The term is combined with metric prefixes to denote multiple units such as the kilohertz (1,000 Hz), megahertz (1,000,000 Hz), and gigahertz Corporation, Pegasus Solutions, which represents more than 150 hotel chains, Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run , StarCite and SatoTravel. e-Travel services are used by major global corporations, including Ingersoll-Rand Corp., The Phillip Morris Corporation and Joseph E. Seagram Joseph Emm Seagram (April 15, 1841 - August 18, 1919) was a Canadian distillery founder, politician, philanthropist, and major owner of thoroughbred racehorses. Born at Fisher's Mills, now part of Cambridge, Ontario, his parents died when he was in his teens and for several and Sons, Ltd. e-Travel is on the World Wide Web at www.e-travel.com. e-Travel(R) is a registered trademark of e-Travel, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks belong to their respective companies. |
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