Equinus is an independent travel industry consultancy, covering both business and technical aspects of the travel and transport sectors, with a particular focus on systems integration and the application of technology to achieve maximum business benefit.

Equinus is a team consultancy with unrivalled experience in the travel and transport sectors. Formed in 1994, Equinus has four full-time consultants each with considerable management and technology experience. All consultants have worked in the travel or transport sectors for a minimum of twelve years and have held either board-level or senior management positions in leading companies.

Key Skills

• E-Commerce and electronic distribution.
• Strategic planning.
• Delivering strategic plans for business acquisition and disposal.
• System procurement and implementation.
• Business and information systems strategy.
• Business requirements analysis and definition.
• Supplier management and contractual negotiations.
• Yield management and value analysis.
• Distribution and application strategy, outsourcing.
• Project management of business processes or systems migration.
• Technical skills in a wide range of IT and Telecommunications technologies.
• Technology awareness and familiarity from mainframes through to the web.

Core Competencies

Our skills and experience enable us to develop realistic and effective business and technology strategies to fully exploit the value of information and allow our clients to manage and develop their businesses to best advantage.

Equinus has an in-depth understanding of the information cycle that operates in successful businesses. Our consultants are experts in the end-to-end travel supply chain - from suppliers through distributors and intermediaries to selling channels and the end consumer - and also in the ‘back-office’ business processes.

We know the travel and transport businesses from both the supplier and the customer perspective. We have wide experience of working with many suppliers to deliver usable, online solutions with a strong customer-led business focus.

A priority for Equinus is to help clients address the ever-present drive to reduce costs and increase revenue by streamlining work-flow and business processes and by using information to match and develop supply and demand. We work with a clear understanding of the need to balance commercial, business, technology and cultural aspects when considering both strategic and tactical business development.

Independence

The independence of Equinus is an invaluable asset, enabling us to take an objective view when considering business and systems processes and making recommendations. A key focus is always to provide effective and appropriate solutions that add real value and are fit for purpose.

Equinus also maintains the travel industry’s largest and most comprehensive directory of technology suppliers, worldwide. The directory lists over 700 suppliers and their products and is continually being updated at www.SourceIT-Travel.com

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