Adcore's services will allow ebookers to ensure they can provide their customers with a portfolio of services uniquely matched to their requirements "like having a personal booking agent at work for you no matter where you are 24 hours a day, 7 days a week". The provision of these advanced services will further ebookers aim of being Europe's best travel portal and preferred travel retailer on the web.
Andrew Weir, ebookers CIO said "We chose to work with Adcore because of their breadth of experience in the
technical and business aspects of formulating and delivering a multi-channel strategy. This expertise, gathered in the advanced Scandinavian marketplace through real-world projects, was extremely important to us in choosing Adcore over the long list of aspiring so-called m-consultancies."
Ebookers realise the advantages to be had both from the business and customer service perspective of providing customers with a full range of useful services through channels such as mobile phones and digital interactiveTV.
"We also realise that simply replicating current web services is not the answer, which is why we have called upon Adcore's proven experience, not only in ecommerce and technology, but also in Business and Interactive consulting" commented Andrew Weir.
Adcore, currently with over 1,400 staff in locations throught Europe and Japan, have vast experience of advising and implementing advanced multi-channel digital business solutions with typical customers including; Ericsson, SAS, Lufthansa, ABB, Skandia, Telia, Telenor, Fondex, Bluetooth, Volkswagen and Thomson Travel Group.
Martin Robertson, Adcore's UK Business Development Manager said "ebookers is a very important customer for us and we welcome the opportunity to assist them with their long term digital multi-channel strategy and implementation."
Adcore is a member of the WAP Forum, the international association set up by the world's leading telecommunications companies and operators to create a global Wireless Application Protocol standard. Adcore designs and maintains the Bluetooth, Personal Area Network, Special Interest Group website. Please visit http://www.bluetooth.com/ and http://bluetooth.ericsson.se Adcore is quoted on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and further details can be found at http://www.adcore.com
Stockholm 22 June 2000
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