ITSolutions for HAPIMAG a leading european touristic company

IT-Solutions for HAPIMAG, a leading european touristic company Session: 10 H October 30 th, 2001 Arthur Häberli Antares-Informatik AG Christof Heinrich Informatik AG arthur. haeberli@antares-informatik. ch heinrich. christoph@hapimag. com

Agenda • • Introduction Hapimag. . the client. COOL: PLEX WEBSYDIANTM Sentences. TM Demonstration’s Questions & Answers

n Antares Informatik AG, Lucerne, Switzerland specializes in custom software solutions that leverage COOL: PLEX products from Computer Associates and Sentences of Lazy Soft Ltd. Products and services include business and architectural components, turnkey outsource development, as well consulting services. n www. antares-informatik. ch n www. sentences. ch

Welcome home And those are not just empty words, but the bedrock of the Hapimag holiday philosophy! Whichever of the over 50 Hapimag holiday villages you decide to stay at, we want you to feel at home from the moment you arrive. Our vision of being at home also means you will find the same first-class quality at all our 4, 500 apartments, a full range of services and the kind of guests who provide convivial company. Come with us on a tour of our very special holiday world and find out how you can become a member. Europe’s largest provider of holiday rights of residence,

At present, Hapimag partners have at their disposal 4, 995 apartments and 351 hotel rooms Total revenue CHF 300 million in fiscal year 2000. 120’ 000 Shareholder’s …. about 240’ 000 shares 700’ 000 Adresses…Client’s, Shareholder etc in the Database 1565 Employees

COOL Application Development Why COOL: PLEX? • Implementation Independence! • Developer Performance is excellent! • Application Performance is excellent! • Model based Development and Maintenance

Why COOL: PLEX? Data Requirements Process Requirements COOL: Plex Pattern Library Business Objects Data Modell Views Functions Design Objects Tabel’s / Files/Views Program’s COOL Application Development Documentation

…and the results? • State of the art …. Client / Server • Robust • Cost effective • In Time

The Software is state of the art!… time to relax? …. . not at all! • Hapimag want’s to provide a cutting edge, online reservation and information system! • What where the Alternatives • Lotus Notes with direct ODBC access to AS/400 database • Lotus Notes database with replicated data (Notes pump) • WEBSYDIAN (COOL: PLEX)

How to convince them of doing it right? • What are the premisses? Online!!!! Reservations!!!!!!!Security!!! • Why not Lotus Notes? • Are you able to write the same B-logic Twice?

Proof of concept • Online!!!! Reservations!!!!!!!Security!!! • Reeuse the B-logic ! Its one Application! • The Performance is excellent! / existing Skills! • The Performance is excellent! / AS/400 RDB / HTML • IT IS STILL MODEL BASED DEVELOPMENT!

They like it…. and so do we ! Within less than two months approximately 12’ 000 customers required a password for the new application and more than 1’ 000 vacations have been booked online.

Online-Demo! www. hapimag. ch AS/400 Mod. 270 running HTTP-Server AS/400 Mod S 20 running Application The systems are connected through Remote dataqueues, which offer a high level of security (access online trough APPC and defined functionality)

Let’s get tactical • Write applications nobody has the time for! • Write applications nobody can afford! • Web enable them!

Sentences and the Associative Model of Data • Integrated Database & Development Environment • Design, generate, deploy & maintain multi-user web-enabled applications • Built on Java platform • Browser based

What else? Wednesday, 31 October 09. 30 -10. 15 11 G Simon Williams, Lazy. Soft The Associative Model of Data Wednesday, 31 October 10. 30 -11. 15 12 e Robert Atkins, Computer Associates What is COOL: Plex - An Overview • www. antares-informatik. ch • www. sentences. com • www. hapimag. ch • www. ca. com