CYTRIC BENEFITS

• Booking business travel at your PC saves time: Travelers and secretaries can see immediately if seats on a flight are available. No more time-consuming communication between travelers, secretaries and agencies is necessary.
• cytric remembers the preferences of the travelers: Preferred seats, preferred meals on long-distance flights, customer and frequent flyer numbers. All this is being considered automatically when booking with cytric.
• Navigation in cytric is easy and fast. Only a few mouse-clicks complete bookings. cytric does not waste any work time of company employees.
• cytric is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
• Travel policies are stored in the system. The traveler is automatically directed to make the selection in the best interest of the corporation. As a result, cytric customers realize substantial travel cost reductions.
• Several trip approval procedures for business travel can easily be set and managed - cytric adjusts perfectly to the processes in any corporation.
• Corporate negotiated rates are used automatically.
• BestBuy functions for air and hotel bookings automatically find the best price.
• Corporations using cytric win control of all bookings. cytric is a neutral system, which is not restricted to the use with certain credit cards, airlines or travel agencies.
• The call center of the partner travel agency supports complex bookings and special requests when using cytric. A special process, cytric Assisted Booking, can be set to easily facilitate this process.
• cytric uses modern Internet technology. To access the system only a free Internet Browser is needed.
• cytric is available worldwide via Internet. The system is centrally administrated. There is no recurring cost for installation und updates.
• cytric includes numerous high tech features: Select the travel date by mouse click. A simple function to store frequent trips, which can be booked again with one mouse click. The system displays seat maps for many aircraft types. Users can reserve their desired seat with a click of their mouse and can even see where other travelers of the same company are supposed to sit. Integrated with the booking confirmation the traveler receives current weather forecasts for many business destinations worldwide. cytric users can spot the location of a hotel on an integrated city map. Pictures are available for many hotels so that cytric users can get an impression of the selected hotel. Using WAP, users can access the system with mobile computers and mobile WAP phones. cytric also allows bookings using Palm and all devices using the Palm OS (e.g. Sony CLIČ, Handspring Visor) and any Pocket PC device with Pocket Internet Explorer, when these are connected to the Internet.
• Travel Managers can centrally manage travel policies fast and easy using the TMS (Travel Management System) module. It used to take weeks to communicate a new preferred hotel partner within a corporation. For cytric customers this is a matter of just a few seconds.
• The TMS allows for all properties to be stored with multiple options and high precision. For airlines, as an example, a total of six preference categories are available for selection.
• Design, layout and languages within cytric can be adjusted to the needs of the corporation. All global standards are available for time, date and temperature.
• Travel expense software and credit card data access can be integrated easily and without substantial cost.
• cytric contains exchange rates for more than 180 currencies that are being updated every day.
• More than 900 settings within the Travel Management System enable the travel manager to integrate all preferred suppliers, special rates and travel policies of the corporation. Travel Manager can generate reports about the use of the system fast and easily, e.g. about the number of travelers or bookings and about the use of vendors and service classes.
• i:FAO's international cytric development team is continually updating and extending the system. Substantial investments in sales and marketing support i:FAO’s claim: "cytric by i:FAO is Market Leader for Neutral, Worldwide Available Standard Software for Business Travel eProcurement".
• i:FAO offers access to cytric via servers in Germany, the United States and in Singapore as well as via a company owned server or many distributions partners. In total 8 different languages are selectable.
• More than 2,600 corporations worldwide have already selected an i:FAO eProcurement solution. Your company can be starting to save money in less than 30 days from today.