Opodo, the Pan-European online travel portal has awarded Energis a major upgrade to their existing contract in order to expand its managed hosting service.

To date Energis has been responsible for the managed website hosting of Opodo’s three markets: UK, Germany and France. Further to this, they will also provide new infrastructure and support for Opodo’s new data warehouse, which will enable Opodo to store and analyse customer data and tailor its services further to meet customers needs.

Energis

provides Opodo

with one of the most technically advanced hosting environments in use today and Opodo has enjoyed unrivalled levels of availability since the launch of its first site in Germany in November 2001 and subsequent launches in the UK and France in January & April this year.

 

David Scowsill

, CEO of Opodo commented, “This significant increase in investment confirms Opodo’s commitment to build on our remarkable success in our three launched countries. It also reaffirms our trust in Energis to provide the necessary standards of managed hosting to support our aim to be the leading online travel service.”

John Pluthero, chief executive of Energis, said: “The fact that some of the most innovative and demanding customers in the UK are choosing to upgrade their contracts with Energis is the strongest endorsement of our service. This is another major vote of confidence in the technical strength and quality of our business.”

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(07/11/2002) Opodo Appoints Site Confidence as External Website Monitoring Agency

 

(20/09/2002) Opodo Announces New Chief Executive Officer

(03/09/2002) Opodo Undertakes Massive Recruitment Push

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