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Great Wolf Lodge Case Study - Travel and Hospitality
Mobile App and Web Migration for Great Wolf Resorts
The summary.
Great Wolf Lodges required an upgraded, secure website for resort bookings. During our 5 year partnership, we migrated the website from PHP to .Net Core and developed a mobile app to facilitate bookings and enhance guests' experience.
"Modernizing legacy systems is always a challenge, especially if the expectations for the end results are high, as happened with Great Wolf Resorts. The company aimed to offer an experience as stylish as the one they offer across their multiple locations. Fortunately, BairesDev has the expertise and the talent to deliver through our Delivery Teams service."
Team Leader, BairesDevAbout Great Wolf Lodge
Great Wolf Resorts has 20 lodges across North America, featuring indoor water parks, arcades, and family recreational activities. Its annual revenue is $920 million.
The challenge.
Great Wolf Resorts wanted a dynamic website to showcase the resort's extensive offerings. Furthermore, the website is the main platform for guests to reserve resort stays. It must be secure and reliable with 24/7 uptime.
Great Wolf Resort's website was hosted on PHP. They wanted to migrate to a more robust infrastructure that could process millions of reservations a year.
The website needed advanced admin settings for employees across their 20 resorts. The company decided to move to .Net Core. The powerful built-in security features would improve cybersecurity and payment processing. It was also essential to keep the platform up and running for current guests and bookings. They required an experienced software development team to migrate their platform with minimum impact on users.
Great Wolf Resorts also requested an app to match the new website. The app would be an efficient tool for checking in, ordering food, and accessing entertainment openings and wait times. We partnered with Great Wolf Resorts to develop an iOS and Android app that would expand their offerings.
Great Wolf Lodges needed a dynamic website to showcase the resort's extensive offerings. The website is the main platform for guests to reserve resort stays and must be secure and reliable with 24/7 uptime. Further, they needed to migrate from PHP to a more robust infrastructure that could process millions of reservations a year.
The solution.
We provided a comprehensive software development team that included UX/UI designers, a Project Owner, a Scrum Master, React Developers, .NET Developers, and QA Analysts. Our team of front-end and back-end engineers was tasked with the full migration and redesign of Great Wolf Resorts’ digital platforms. The original platforms were built on monolithic PHP. Our team engineered a large-scale language migration converting to a technology stack built on React and .NET Core.
All technologies used.
The outcome.
During our 5 year partnership we:
- Migrated the website from PHP to .Net Core.
- Developed an Android and iOS mobile app.
- Updated the front end of the website with improved UX.
Since 2020, we have also provided ongoing support and maintenance for their web and mobile applications with 2 full-time developers.
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