The Challenge
In order to maintain its position as a dominant European low cost online car rental company, it required a new infrastructure that was not only highly available, but also had the capacity to scale rapidly as the business grew and traffic peaked during busy holiday periods. easyCar required an experienced hosting provider with demonstrable expertise in operating complex transactional websites and chose to work with Attenda as its Critical Applications Hosting provider.
The Solution
easyCar had enhanced the functionality of its web application to offer a global service, to integrate its booking engine with more suppliers and to significantly shorten booking times. The booking engine has become a complex application due the number of external web services and interfaces that are required. Attenda monitors the whole web application, ensuring that all of the important gateways are available and responding quickly if there are any issues.
Business benefits
- IT Certainty with high availability, high performance, highly secure web applications
- Website booking times reduced by up to 70%
- Website is quicker, more flexible and more resilient
- High quality support and comprehensive problem diagnosis
- Monitoring of the whole application including gateways
Client comment
"The quality of support that we receive from Attenda has always ensured that any technical issues are diagnosed comprehensively. This is not something that easyCar can do internally and continues to allow our IT team to focus on development."
Martin Smith, CTO, easyCar