E-commerce Business Areas
Travel and Hospitality
Travel agencies and booking firms are among the businesses that have benefited most from switching to selling their services online. The travel and booking industry's transformation following the switch to online transactions has been among the most profoundly apparent and beneficial to consumers. It has completely changed travel agents’ business models and has even turned some of them into truly global companies. As a software development partner of the travel industry leaders, Luxoft has been closely involved in development and maintenance of this segment's core mission-critical systems.
Functional areas and services provided by Luxoft:
- Multifunctional online booking engine for different products: air and rail tickets, hotels, cars
- Web Point-of-Sale
- GDS integration
- Service middleware (authentication, transaction processing, XML-based common API etc.)
- Analytical and reporting tools
- Service tools (deal management, custom CMS etc.)
- Performance Engineering
Retail
Despite the fact that today’s market offers a host of packaged products for online retail covering virtually all industry segments, picking out and implementing the right solution is still not as easy as it seems. For large retailers, the web front end represents only the tip of the iceberg relative to their immense corporate IT infrastructures, and integration of e-commerce solutions with back office systems usually becomes a separate full-fledged project. Luxoft's track record in this arena includes development of online retail solutions and their components both from scratch and utilizing existing e-commerce platforms for B2C, B2B and multi-channel sales. Luxoft also offers proven expertise in integration work.
Functional areas and services provided by Luxoft:
- Custom online stores
- OTS-based online stores (ATG, Microsoft, Elastic Path)
- Online auctions
- Marketing Campaign / Partner Management
- Custom CRM development / OTS CRM integration
- Data Warehouses
- Integration with SCM
- Order Management
- Performance Engineering
Financial services
The role of e-commerce and online transactions has expanded dramatically for financial institutions in both consumer and corporate segment. It concerns not only traditional banking portals, but also B2B online services and the fast growing m-commerce industry. Close cooperation between Financial Services, Telecom and E-commerce practices allows our team to develop complex solutions where these business domains intersect.
Functional areas and services provided by Luxoft:
- Online Transactions Processing
- Real-time Payments Systems
- Mobile Payment Solutions
- Customer Portals
- Performance Engineering
Media
Content delivery innovation has changed the entire media history landscape. Luxoft's E-commerce practice hosts a special expert group focused on streaming media technologies. We also cover more traditional solutions such as classic news portals. Our customers range from content providers to news agencies to diversified media holdings.
Functional areas and services provided by Luxoft:
- Media Portals
- Content Management Systems
- Media Analysis and Reporting
- Digital Rights Management (DRM)
- Push/Pull News Distribution
- Podcasting and RSS
- IP, Mobile and Web TV
Social Networking
The tremendous popularity of companies like YouTube and Facebook has many people investigating social networks' enormous commercial potential. Our team has been involved in the implementation of social networking technologies focused on both consumer market and corporate space, based on the modern Enterprise Web 2.0 concept.
Functional areas and services provided by Luxoft:
- Consumer Portals
- Corporate Blogs
- Production Marketplace
- Online Collaboration Platform