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This article presents that many of independent hotels choose the cloud based PMS to make their working systems more profitable. One of the cloud based PMS, Maestro property management system showcases enhanced technology, additionally customer engagement for increasing a loyalty as like as chain hotels. Here are trends that make independent hotels more productive and profitable. First, it makes direct booking that could reduces reliance on OTAs and boost occupancy. Second, its automated e-messaging increase guest retention and revenue. Third, it boast its affordable and secure information. It delivers instant remote access to property and let operators manage multipe properties. Fourthly, it provides dash board to access to real-time data and make on-the-spot decision. Fifthly, it provides guest loyalty programs to compete with chains. It has automated tracking system to redeem points and boost customer loyalty. lastly, it offers to users the knowledge center for 24/7 to let Maestro users to be familiar with the system and provide access to tools and resources.

Choice Hotels installed a choiceADVANTAGE Cloud-Based PMS recently, it is a property management system based on the cloud, it is much easier and more convenient to use and manage, and it also reduces some redundant of the traditional PMS, now it will roll out and will be deployed in more and more hotels located in other area of world. As far as I concerned, this is an excellent system which can help hotel to manage different kinds of things in a short time and an easy way, it should be extended to more hotel.

This article is talking about Optima Property Management System for hotels. First of all, it introduces that Optima PMS should meet the technology of the next generation. Because Optima PMS is a state of the art, windows based Property Management System that incorporates the latest in advanced technology. It is designed to provide all the features of a sophisticated Front Office system linked with other computerized hotel applications on the same relations SQL database. Secondly, it is said that Optima PMS should have efficient management. It places all the vital information needed for optimum operation at the manager's fingertips. What is more, it provides the hotels with all the tools necessary to give better, more personal and more efficient service to the guests. Thirdly, Optima PMS is an easy and friendly operation, and a flexible, customized configuration. Last but not the least, it introduces what kinds of modules and comprehensive sophisticated capabilities include in Optima PMS.

Optima is a most powerful and advanced Front Office system based on years of experience and on highly sophisticated development and focus teams, including superior hoteliers, engineers and front office specialists. These teams have researched and 'brainstormed' to meet the highest standards of the hospitality industry for the next century.  

This article introduces a PMS software-Optima PMS, which is a state of the art; Windows based Property Management System that incorporates the latest in advanced technology. It is designed to provide all the features of a sophisticated Front Office system linked with other computerized hotel applications on the same relational SQL database. Optima PMS places all the vital information needed for optimum operation at the manager's fingertips. All information can be viewed on-line, printed in a large variety of reports or shown on graphs. It is a profitable marketing tool, as it captures a wide range of data needed to make the correct marketing analysis. Information analysis is simple, quick and precise, emphasizing revenues, budgets and yearly comparisons in combination with data of occupancy, segmentation and other guest information.

There is a misconception that all PMS are the same. Although basically, they have similar functions, they are not the same. PMS used for restaurant cannot be used in a hotel, and PMS used in a bed and breakfast and that in a luxury hotel are different. It is important to choose the most appropriate PMS for a property. Managers need to consider some things before purchasing a PMS. First, what are the specific needs of your particular businesses? Second, the PMS that a hotel buy cannot have too many weakness compared with its strengths, because too many weakness will make the purchasing a poor choice overall. Third, the cost of purchasing a PMS cannot conflict with financial budget. Even if a manager did all three above, it is inevitable that the PMS you bought are not perfect, however, this imperfection is acceptable.

ROOMKEY PMS becomes a smart property management system with over 30 years experience and it got cloud computing based for over 10 years. Like other cloud based PMS, it has accounting security, anytime, anywhere reports, GDS seamless connect, etc. Now is a good trend for using cloud based PMS, more convenient and more cost efficiency. 

This article introduced the top PMS trend of 2012. They are Mobile Booking reservation software tools; hosted solution options for reduced IT investment; and guest loyalty systems. NORTHWIND Maestro is the leader who leads all these trends and innovations. They conclude that the technology is for greater staff productivity, greater communications and profitable business process. The company also develops and implements cloud system to allow the customer to manage several hotels on just one central site. The purpose of that is to centralize audits and maximize revenue. The company also provides maintaining to their PMS network for free. The other one is the Travelers and Operators Go Mobile. From this PMS technology, the mobile usage is already having a huge impact on reservation booking and property operations. The customers are always able to book the hotel from their wireless devices like iPad. The company enables operators to wirelessly connect to their Maestro centralized system. The operators can receive management reports, real-time activity and other features from Marstro. Guest loyalty levels is using by operator to recognize, reward and retain guests. The new system is based on a single-image database and gives independent operators robust functionality. The system will check the errors and considerable cost for operators. Also it is mobile and social media optimized.

Although I am a supporter of property management systems, I do find this article to be rather intriguing. Apparently, this group in Texas, Genares, has teamed up with RDX to eliminate the middle man as well as confusion from booking. What the partnership will do is reduce the amount that a hotel will spend on their PMS because it won't be utilized as much as it previously was. RDX is a two way connectivity system, which means that it can gain access to more than one access point at a time. Not only will this make it easier to make reservations, but the constant communication will allow for faster and more accurately detailed information.

A property management system is software used to automate the operations of a hotel. It is the hub of a property's operations processing reservations, check-ins and check-outs. It keeps track of how many rooms you have left to sell and at what rate. It handles front office accounting, marketing as well as interfacing to other systems such as phone, reservations, restaurant and pay-per-view movies. Web PMS offers all the features of a traditional PMS-including integrated accounting, GDS connectivity and multiple interfaces-as well as advantages unique to Cloud-based systems, such as remote accessibility, integrated Web and mobile reservations and automatic data back-up. It will be a better choice in the future.

This essay is interesting that It gives you general knowledge about how to purchase a PMS on a reasonable price.  there is a link that lead you to a page that can help you find a PMS provider based on your need. And there are also several links on the page that can lead you to essays about PMS, such as "Introduction to property management software", "Features of property management systems".

This is a web page that I found in an IT company' s web site. This company design Cloud-based Property Management System (PMS). Their product can help the manager manage their business in a simple and ecnomic way. In this page you will know the advance of this new PMS system when comparing the troditional PMS system. In addition there are several advantages of cloud-based PMS system.

Marriott International has expanded its partnership with MICROS by selecting the hosted MICROS OPERA Property Management System (PMS) as the property management system (PMS) to be used in all Marriott brands worldwide.MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions for more than 30,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale, loss prevention, and cross-channel functionality for more than 150,000 retail stores worldwide and 17,000 Fuel and Convenience stores.The cloud-based MICROS OPERA enables Marriott to manage international and domestic properties well under on PMS and with information gathering in the same place.

This report shows Kempinski hotels are going to use cloud PMS. It analysis the limit of local PMS, for instance, which is difficult in updating because individual hotels have to update one by one. It is also hard to manage all the hotels with central standard if the version of PMS are not the same. In this case, one update will take care of this situation if hotels are using cloud PMS. Besides, cloud technology will release IT manager work as a server, IT manager will have more time focusing on customer-side technology to enhance satisfaction and loyalty. On the other hand, area like Africa and China still have some bandwidth limit so that cloud PMS are not available. Kempinski are trying to find out solution for that. Meanwhile, they will make new PMS more effective by reduce intermediates between hotels and distribution company, provide customers more channels to be served, like tablet and mobile phone.

The AutoClerk Property Management System (PMS) is designed to be the most powerful, intuitive PMS on the market. At the core of every hotel operator's business is the guest experience. It is the yield management tool. AutoClerk Yield Management Rules offer sensitivity to your occupancy by allowing you to define what levels will trigger different room rate tiers. These rules can also take into account the number of days into the future the guest is booking the room. In that way, quoting a guest a room rate is kept quick and easy. It is the room allotments. AutoClerk has built-in support for wholesaler room allotments with rolling cut-off dates and pickup reports. Each day of an allotment can have its own setting for number of rooms allotted, and AutoClerk will not allow reservation entry which overbooks a given allotment. Is also called guest history and profiles. AutoClerk's "profile lookup" searches the entire AutoClerk database, including past stays, current check-ins and future reservations. Profile lookups can identify by guest, company, group, or travel agent and can be made to be automatic, so that a reservation name entry will invoke a profile list of matches. Besides, channel auditing, availability snapshot, easy audit, customer packages, email options and housekeeping exist as some other functions.

"Indra's Travel Management Suite services all the business needs of a hotel chain or management company in one system, hosted in the cloud or on-premise. The system is modular and each module is also available individually as a stand-alone entity."

Choice Hotels, for example, uses proprietary systems. Their current system, Choice Advantage, is cloud-based (just one thing I don't like about it, other than it's a proprietary system - I don't trust the cloud). Micros/Opera is the one most commonly specified by franchise organizations (Wyndham, Carlson, Intercontinental and others). I look at value for the investment, reliability, easy to use, and short learning curve for new employees. With those things in mind, there are two I particularly like.

This article introduced some property management systems, such as FOSSE, Choice Advantage, Micros/Operas, and so on. The author mentioned two in detail. One is Visual Matrix, used by most Best Westerns. It is easy to use and can save a lot of time on training. The other one is Check-Inn. It is a good choice for small business, which isn't very sales and marketing intensive. I think each hotel group should choose their property management system based on its size and strategies.

This article introduced a new kind of property management system. The hotelier Bill Murray could not find any platform in the market to fit his need to enable all the managers at Intergral's various properties to have the same capabilities. So he built his own-- ILink. ILink is an online system that collects the accounting information, revenue data and sales reports of all 40 Integral properties with daily updates. But the is system does not interface with reservations or execute much in the way of customer relationship management。

As this article mentioned, Sabre Hospitality Solutions and Passkey announced their new cooperation. This new program allows you to book passed from Passkey's GroupMAX platform to the hotel's PMS via Sabre's CRS. The action can benefit many aspects, such as hotels, meeting planners and event attendees around the world. It can track inventory and maximize the revenue better. In my opinion, it can be more convenient for the customers, especially meeting planners. By making use of GroupMAX technology, it increases not only their efficiency for hotels, but also their revenue.

Nowadays, most hotels are using PMS as their key technology in property management, which referred as the single most important IT application for hotels. PMS works as the central data infrastructure of the hotel, handling the administration of all the guests, their profiles and bookings, as well as the revenues generated. Besides PMS, hotels also use CRS and EPOS to fully maximise the benefits of the system. To obtain the maximum function of PMS, we came up with some ways to solve the problem. Firstly, there are already many PMS providers available on the market that provide various solutions with a large number of functions based on the changing needs of hotels. Many hotels today do not use all the functions of PMS, which will lead to low return on investment of the PMS software. Secondly, hotels are lack of awareness and exploitation of the full range of PMS functionality. This under-utilisation inevitably costs hotel operators in financial terms, as they are paying for functions that they do not use. 

the choiceadvantage system is the same as the WebRezPro. they are both doing the guest reservation, financial management, data collection and remote access. the choiceadvantage is cheap as the WebRezPro. many countries' hotels has installed this system. also the choiceadvantage has a cooperation wiith Microsoft software. this behavior makes the choiceadvantage more professional. it is also a web-based solution so it is cheaper than the traditional PMS. low maintenance fee and easily operation are the advantages of this kind of system. thereby the choiceadvantage and the WebRezPro are the competitors.

Using the ZMail® electronic communication platform from ZDirect, travelers receive a link in their confirmation email to a 'pass' containing hotel reservation information; The 'pass' is stored in Apple's Passbook, and when in close proximity to the hotel, automatically pops up on the iPhone lock screen for instant retrieval. ZDirect is a hospitality provider of electronic customer-relationship management services. Via ZMail®, hotels send personalized emails and text messages to guests before, during and after their stay to improve hotel-to-guest communications, build customer loyalty and increase onsite spending. "ZDirect's mobile integration to Passbook does what paper can't -- it alerts travelers to real-time changes in their reservations," "...ZDirect's integration to Passbook means no more printing of hotel confirmations which tend to get lost. To update their reservations, guests simply 'pull down' on their 'pass' to receive the latest reservation information. It's a convenience tool that is so important to today's mobile-dependent travelers, and it's a logical add on for hotels that use ZMail® for hotel-to-guest communication." said Shayne Paddock, ZDirect chief information officer. I think this is a excellent example that combining PMS with current trend. Passbook is an great app invented by Apple, and this collaborating way that ZDirect did is a huge step in PMS mobilization.