e-Travel, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corp., today announced the availability of e-Travel Mobile, a comprehensive service that enables business travelers to book and purchase travel, view trip itineraries, verify flight status, receive driving directions and check weather conditions, all using Internet-enabled handheld devices, including mobile phones and Palm(TM) VII Organizer. e-Travel Mobile is a module of the e-Travel suite of services, an Internet-based corporate travel management solution that enables corporations to reduce travel costs by up to 20 percent. Using e-Travel Mobile, corporate travelers can more easily adjust travel plans and obtain critical travel information, such as flight status updates, driving directions and weather conditions, that contributes to significantly higher productivity while on the road.
"e-Travel continues to push the industry forward by utilizing the latest technologies for the benefit of corporations and their traveling employees," said e-Travel, Inc. President and CEO John Ackermann. "Business travel places enormous demands on employees who are expected to remain highly productive, even while out of the office. e-Travel Mobile provides these traveling employees with a powerful tool to increase productivity for those on the road."
e-Travel Mobile utilizes OracleMobile technology to allow access to existing Internet and database content from a new generation of smartphones and wireless information devices. OracleMobile translates and modifies existing content to fit the native design of wireless devices.
"Wireless phones are emerging as the next phase in the revolution of Internet-based purchasing," said Voice and Wireless Analyst Mark Plakias, The Kelsey Group. "The business travel industry is embracing this technology to alleviate the pains of business travel to everyone involved including corporations, travelers and suppliers."
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