Kanoo Travel adopts Azure for Point-of-Sale ticketing

Manama: Kanoo Travel yesterday announced the adoption of Microsoft Azure to run its Krystal Point-Of-Sale platform in the cloud leading to a greater tractability to expand and grow their businesses. 

At the same time, the company will be able to develop systems on-site for large corporate clients to make ticket sales easier, thus guaranteeing unparalleled customer service.

Commenting on the announcement, Praveen Gandhi, Executive General Manager at Kanoo Travel said “Running Sabre Krystal Point-of-Sale on Azure has resulted in enormous flexibility, enabling us to take a big step forward not only in terms of innovative development for the company, but also in consolidating and growing the business.”

As Azure provides round the clock services and assured high performance, Kanoo Travel now has a fully operational ticketing platform via cloud and greater mobility consequently enabling ticket purchase from any location.

Country General Manager for Microsoft Bahrain and Oman, Sherif Tawfik, said “Azure is continuously investing in the latest infrastructure technologies, with the aim to provide our customers and partners in Bahrain and around the world with high reliability, operational excellence, cost-effectiveness, environmental sustainability and a trustworthy cloud experience.”

Divisional IT Manager, Sanjeev Lalwani, stated: “Running Krystal Point-Of-Sale from the cloud gives us enormous flexibility and enables sales agents to issue tickets from different locations.” 

Azure comfortably handles traffic peaks and ensures consistent response times with guaranteed performance matrix. 

Setting up of new outlets takes shorter time as they are no longer hampered by hardware and technical requirements enabling the IT team to focus on expanding business-related IT implementations and developments without added complexity.