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Car Rental Agency Accelerates Success by Using Cutting-Edge Programming Model

Overview Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group serves value-conscious travelers through its familiar brands, Dollar Rent A Car and Thrifty Car Rental. However, modifications to the company's COBOL, mainframe-based, car rental system were time consuming. Dollar Thrifty remedied its problems by using Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation. To create the company's next-generation car rental application, codenamed Rent Our Cars (ROC), developers are using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers, and designing ROC to take advantage of Windows Server 2003 today and the Windows Vista operating system in the future. With a consistent programming model, Dollar Thrifty improves developer productivity and connects emerging technologies and devices with existing systems.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	February 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	N/A

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