New Skies Business Requirements: SkySales

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New Skies Business Requirements SkySales

• September 28th -October 1st , 2004

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New Skies Business Requirements SkySales

• SkySales Demo
• http//10.211.4.28/UI.Web.Suite/Skylights.aspx?mod
  uleCreateBookingstepSearch
• SkySales Features

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SkySales Features

• Reduced Duplication of Data Settings
• SkySales and the other GUIs all use the same
  back-end
• Flexibility
• Greater Interface Control
• Custom Page Flow Layout
• Increased Speed to Market for Enhancements Bug
  Fixes
• Functionality
• Skins Roles vs. Modes
• Application Security
• Other
• Questions/Discussion

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Reduced Duplication of Data Settings

• SkySales and the other GUIs all use the same
  back-end

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SKYLIGHTS PREFERENCES
Skylights Custom Files and Schedule Manager
CITY_DATA ( CITIES gt
SLC gt name gt 'Salt Lake City', spring_zulu
gt -6, autumn_zulu gt -7, valid_orig gt
'true', valid_dest gt 'true', routes gt
'JFK', 'BUF', 'SEA', 'FLL', 'YYC', 'DEN', 'SYD'
, currency gt 'US', tour_name gt 'Home of
the 2002 Winter Games', tour_url gt
'http//www.openskies.com/destinations/yyc', cont
act gt 'Reservation Centerltbrgt ltbgt1 (800) J IN
TIMElt/bgt (546-8463)', valid_FL_city gt
'true', map_coord_x gt '90', map_coord_y gt
'92', country gt 'US', ,
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SkySales Preferences New Skies

• Management Console

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Flexibility
Greater Interface Control

• Open Skies Skylights

• New Skies SkySales

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SKYLIGHTS GRFX, TEXT PREFS

• GRFX (Graphics)
• Graphics are customized through Perl files,
  SKYLIGHTS_GRFX_EN.pl
• SB_GRFX_EN.pl
• TEXT (Text)
• Text is customized through Perl files,
  SKYLIGHTS_TEXT_EN.pl
• SB_TEXT_EN.pl
• PREFS (Preferences)
• Some preferences are controlled via the
  SKYLIGHTS_PREFS.pl as well as Pref files for each
  module, i.e. SB_PREFS.pl, AG_PREFS.pl.

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SkySales GRFX/TEXT/PREFS

• GRFX (Graphics)
• Graphics are customized through XSLT files
• \Inetpub\wwwroot\UI.Web.Suite\Skins\Default\Styles
  heets\Controls
• control_name.xslt
• Common.css
• TEXT (Text)
• Text is customized through XML files
• \Inetpub\wwwroot\UI.Web.Suite\Skins\Default\Cultur
  es\en-US\Controls
• control_name.xml
• Common.css
• PREFS (Preferences)
• Initially some preferences are controlled through
  settings/Default.xml, while the plan is to make
  all settings accessible from Management Console.
• Inheritance of Controls
• Any portions of a control not overridden in a
  secondary skin will take on the attributes of the
  Default skin.

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Custom Page Flow

• Skylights
• Search, Select, Confirm, (Passenger), Contact,
  Payment, Itinerary
• SkySales Application.xml
• lt?xml version"1.0" encoding"utf-8"?gt
• ltapplicationgt
• ltmodules defaultModule"CreateBooking"gt
• ltmodule name"CreateBooking" defaultStep"Search"
  gt
• ltstepsgt
• ltstep name"Search" secure"false"
  allowBrowserCaching"true"gt
• ltcontrolsgt
• lteventsgt
• ltevent name"Click" nextModule"CreateBooking"
  nextStep"CarRental"/gt
• lt/eventsgt
• lt/controlgt
• ltpermissions anonymous"true" deniedModule""
  deniedStep""gt
• ltaccessAllowedgt

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Increased Speed to Market for Enhancements Bug
Fixes

• Currently customers are dependent upon Navitaire
  for enhancements as well as small bug fixes.
• Enhancements
• Write own custom controls
• Integrate with other sites
• Higher control over interface
• Bug Fixes
• Higher control over interface
• Enterprise Ready- scalable, reliable, secure,
  flexible
• OO (Object Oriented) Powerful Interface
• RDB (Relational Database) No need to alter HP3K
  tables.

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Modes vs. Skins Roles

• Skylights
• Modes
• Customer Not logged in
• Member logged in
• Agency logged in
• SkySales
• Roles
• Role-based security. Role-based security provides
  a unified model for authenticating and
  authorizing users based on identity and roles.
• WWWA - Anonymous
• WWWM - Member
• Your Own Custom Role 100k (Frequent
  Flyers/Special Fare)
• Agencies
• Agencies can now have multiple logins per agency.

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Application Security

• Navitaire has increased the security of the
  SkySales application.
• SkySales Security
• Security Image dynamically generated
• .Net Security
• http//www.microsoft.com/net/business/security_net
  .asp
• http//isc.sans.org/

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Other

• SkySales has complete support for SSRs
• Integration with Web Check-In.
• SkySales is precompiled and then cached allowing
  it to serve pages faster than previously released
  Skylights code.
• Promo Code
• Vouchers
• Change/Cancel/Confirm
• Open-Jaw Support
• Complete CSS Support

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Questions
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SkySales CreateBooking