CAR RENTAL SYSTEM

Car Rental System for Apache Rent-a-Car



Car Rental System for Apache Rent-a-Car

Task 1

Important Criteria for the Designing

Working with the proposed rental system Apache can benefit from many things like:

.. Online booking engine

.. Fleet management solution

.. Vehicle scheduling solutions

.. GPS-based navigation / trace and track solutions

Perot Systems has proven experience and expertise helping organizations worldwide develop, enhance, and manage their applications and IT infrastructure to maximize returns on their IT investments. And we can help your business achieve and increase competitive advantage through the creation of flexible, customer-focused, enterprise wide global information systems. (Perot Systems, 2009: 45) The design and development of an alarm device that can disseminate disaster early warnings to threatened communities over the GSM network. The device is capable of generating audible, high-volume alarms, flashlights and turning on an in-built radio in response to a warning message from an authorized entity via GSM's short message service (SMS) or cell broadcast (CB). The design of the device follows international guidelines on emergency communications, such as the ability to reach a large number of people very fast, awaken sleeping communities, and be able to acknowledge warning messages. The alarm has been designed as a last-mile technology in a larger Disaster Early Warning network (DEWN). It is intended to be place in selected locations such as police stations, places of religious places and community centres

The Transition to web-based reservation systems and IP-based call centres with multilingual support Migrate mission-critical applications from legacy mainframe systems to open platforms using contemporary technologies seamlessly in titrate business partners and suppliers to successfully deliver services. (Perot Systems, 2009: 16)

Integrate databases at various points of sale and field locations to maintain continuity of service delivery in real time, Perot Systems has helped leading car rental companies achieve higher levels of operational excellence and increase their customer base while consolidating and enhancing legacy IT systems to maximize return on technology investments. (Perot Systems, 2009: 19)

A vehicle management system and method using wireless terminals is provided. In the method, a server on a network stores accumulated travel distance-based vehicle maintenance/consumable item replacement time information in a specific recording medium. The server transmits an accumulated travel distance information request message to a wireless terminal of a subscriber. The wireless terminal of the subscriber transmits accumulated travel distance information to the server. The server checks whether or not any vehicle maintenance/consumable item, which is required to be replaced according to the accumulated travel distance information transmitted from the wireless terminal, is present, based on the accumulated travel distance-based vehicle maintenance/consumable item replacement time information stored in the recording medium. If a vehicle maintenance/consumable item required to be replaced is present, the server notifies the wireless terminal of information of the vehicle maintenance/consumable item to be replaced. Thus, the appropriate time to replace maintenance/consumable items (for example, engine oil, brake linings/pads, and a generator) and prices of the items at the moment when they are replaced can be easily calculated according to the accumulated travel distance information ...