GroundScope, an IT and management services business focused exclusively on ground travel, has entered into a strategic alliance with Blue Star Infotech, a provider of travel technology and business solutions. Through this alliance, Blue Star Infotech will provide development and maintenance services to enhance GroundScope’s core platform and support its implementations across its global customer base.
The GroundScope service includes an online technology platform, which allows clients to book cars and manages their bookings in 500+ cities worldwide. The system provides online payment facilities and detailed management information on client spend and service partner performance against an agreed SLA.
This alliance will leverage the strengths of both organisations and will bring together GroundScope’s knowledge of the business travel domain and Blue Star Infotech’s capabilities in developing and supporting solutions for the travel industry.
Blue Star Infotech has been engaged with GroundScope since 2006 and has assisted them in the design and development of the middleware switch that forms the core of GroundScope’s business offerings.
John McCallion, joint managing director, GroundScope, said, “IT is at the core of GroundScope’s service offering and Blue Star Infotech completely manages the development and day-to-day support of our IT. We have a partnering approach to developing the GroundScope technology and work closely with Blue Star Infotech to continuously improve our platform capability”.
John Graham, Blue Star Infotech’s travel and hospitality Practice Head, said, “We are delighted to be associated with GroundScope and are confident that our core strengths in online technology and the travel domain will enable us to provide significant value-addition to GroundScope and further enhance our position as a solution provider to the travel industry.”