30.03.2011
SMT Software – destination: France
iAlbatros S.A., a subsidiary company of SMT Software, established a twin iAlbatros company in the French market. To what purpose? To find significant partners in the Business Travel industry and increase the service sales volume in Western Europe.
SMT Software, an IT company listed on the NewConnect Stock market, announced that its subsidiary company iAlbatros S.A. established a twin company with the same name. 100% shares in the new French entity is held by iAlbatros S.A. with the registered office in Warsaw, Poland. New French enterprise will be managed by Moncef Khanfir, holder of 49% shares in the Polish iAlbatros. The remaining 51% of iAlbatros S.A. shares is held by SMT Software.
iAlbatros is classified as HBA (Hotel Booking Agency) entity. However its offer includes much more than just a hotel booking system. It is a comprehensive outsourcing service for business travel policy, planning and settlement management, designed for corporations. It is a technologically, functionally and ergonomically advanced IT platform available in the increasingly popular Cloud Computing, in the SaaS model (Software as a Service).
„At present iAlbatros focuses its actions on the French, U.K. and Polish hotel markets. In the first half of 2011 our customers will be able to book hotels and use the business expenses settlement functionality.” – said Szymon Pura, Member of the Board at SMT Software S.A. – “Next stage of development will increase the range of service: the system will allow the clients to manage all major business travel expenses, such as: purchase of the flight tickets, trains tickets, car rental etc.”
iAlbatros, with the tech-support provided by SMT Software specialists, not only offers a new business travel management platform, but also integrates it with any management systems operating in the clients company, in order to optimize the business travel management processes and make them almost unattended. The system offers full control over the business travel costs borne by the whole company, by defining the travel planning rules, hotel selection policy, defining the costs limits and expenses acceptance rules. But iAlbatros is much more than just another IT system. It means professional client service, which includes short-term defrayal of employees travel expenses, execution of processes and costs audits and most of all, provision of one, single summary invoice for managing the business travels of all employees within the company, no matter their destination.
iAlbatros is a subsidiary company of SMT Software S.A. – an innovative software house, specialized in business applications development and providing IT outsourcing services. At present, SMT Software employs approx. 200 specialists in 6 branches in Poland and 1 branch in the Netherlands.