Sonata Develops New Software for Car Rental Companies

Sonata Software has just launch a product that could make life easier of many car rental companies employees because the web-based solution called "MilEdge" is said to provide some of the most advanced features ever created in this segment. Designed for large and medium car rental organizations and auto-leasing firms, the application can basically deal with all operations within a car rental company, from the front counter control to back office management.

"MilEdge has been designed to provide quick and easy solution to the car rental businesses helping them to streamline their operations, respond quickly to the market fluctuations and grow their business faster," said Mr. Mahesh Shastry, Head - Travel, Transportation & Logistics Business, Sonata Software Ltd.

Demonstrated at the Car Rental Show in Las Vegas, United States, the car rental management system will be implemented for the first time in the United Arab Emirates by Dollar and Thrifty brand which currently operates more than 16,000 vehicles.

"We were looking at a comprehensive Car Rental Management System that will integrate our end to end rental processes and enable us to minimize our operational costs and improve efficiency. We have partnered with Sonata as MilEdge mapped well with our requirements. Sonata has taken the complete ownership of the implementation, ongoing maintenance and support of the system," Rahul Singh, GM, Thrifty UAE said.

To give you an idea on how easily the car rental process can be made with the new system, here are the main operations that MilEdge can do: Customer Enquiry to Vehicle Purchase, Fleet Management, Bookings, Rental Agreements, Transfers, Replacements, Rate Management, Payment Management, Fleet Movement Tracking, Incident Management, Vehicle Service, Loyalty Management and finally sale and disposal of the vehicles.