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Travelyst Pricing Model

Thursday, December 1st, 2016

Travelyst Pricing Model Travelyst comes standard with the main features for enquiry management, customer lifecycle management and quote version management as well as all functionality required to build detailed itineraries, produce documentation and integrate with a financial accounting system. Travelyst is a turn-key, cloud based solution which requires no additional hardware/infrastructure costs. With ...

What is Travelyst™?

Friday, November 25th, 2016

What is Travelyst? Travelyst is a cloud-based Travel and Tour Operator business-process software solution that is differentiated by having a very strong integrated travel-oriented Customer Relationship Management (CRM) component. The CRM module delivers functionality similar to stand-alone CRM applications with the added benefit of a deep Travel Agent/Operator focus. Deeply Integrated Travel ...

Travelyst™ has moved house!

Thursday, November 24th, 2016

Travelyst Travelyst, our end-to-end Travel and Tour Operator Business Solution, has moved to greener (and much faster) pastures. For the last 2 ½ years, Travelyst has shared space with our other systems and business applications. It was getting crowded and as a mature application, Travelyst wanted to leave the nest, spread its ...

Travelyst

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Travelyst Travelyst is ready for prime time! The excitement has been steadily building and now, after nearly 2½ years in development, Travelyst has been released to the market! Travelyst is designed to manage the complete business process of a tour or travel operator, from initial client contact through to sales. With a ...

Travelyst Mobile Update

Thursday, March 31st, 2016

There are currently no platforms available in which travellers and travel consultants communicate directly with each other to manage a traveller’s documentation, itinerary and other information. Therefore, ViaData came up with the idea of making a mobile application for the front end of their Travelyst Tour Operator Software to achieve ...

Improving Every Day – a Journey

Tuesday, April 28th, 2015

Last year we took some time off to do some navel gazing in order to understand what and who we are as a company and as individuals who make up the company. The results were quite interesting... Why work? When asked the question - ’What makes you come to work every day?’ ...

Enquiry Explosion!

Tuesday, April 21st, 2015

We ran into an interesting problem the other day. One of our customers had reworked their website to include lots of "enquire now" screens, and they were getting inundated with sales enquiries. So much so, in fact, that the sales manager found that managing the incoming sales enquiry mail was ...

UCT IS Expo 2013

Monday, October 21st, 2013

[caption id="attachment_62" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The winning team with the ViaData Shield"][/caption] The annual IS Expo for 3rd and 4th year students took place at Jamieson Hall, UCT on the 9th of October 2013. The Expo is an opportunity for the local business community to view the quality of work coming out of ...

Free <> Better

Friday, October 18th, 2013

Just because software is Free, doesn't mean it is necessarily more desirable or better – as proponents of Free and Open Source Software would have us believe! A debate is raging in the Cape Town IT community and business press about the decision by the Department of Basic Education to standardise ...

ViaData Featured on 5FM (National Radio)

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

ViaData was featured on 5FM Mind You Own Business. Technical Director, Alister Main, told DJ Fresh about the key thing that makes ViaData different – we build systems that WORK. Listen to the interview here Interview on Mind Your Own Business or read the post on 5FM’s website at //www.5fm.co.za/djs/Fresh/blog/mind-your-own-business-thursday-8-03-12 This is what Alister ...