1. Hotel Content Info Base The New Approach i:FAO Technical Seminar 13 – 14 Sep, 2007 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria

2. The Beginning  Quality of data  System reliability and performance  Ease of use

3. Quality of Data  Normalized structures for data storage  Strict rules for validating various data  Names  CRS Codes  Postal Codes  Coordinates  URLs, E-mails, telephone and fax numbers  Data unification – treating data as information

4. System Reliability and Performance  Synchronization with cytric instances  Synchronization of objects  Transferring only new and updated records  Using “session” for transaction isolation  Data manipulation  Everything is stored in the database – both data and images  User management for access control

5. Ease of Use  New GUI design

6. Under the Hood  Data storage – Oracle Database  Application server – BEA WebLogic and Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)  Web GUI – Tapestry  Java Persistence – EJB3 and Hibernate  Web Services – Oracle Database Web Services

7. Further Development  Data – using Oracle extensively for data manipulation  Importing data from hotel chains  Importing data from VDAs (HOTELZON, DERHOTEL, HOTEL.DE)  Web Application  Implementing new enhancements

8. Thank you for your attention! Presented by Dimitar Popov