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Research Center POS Article - 0 views

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  • Rempel the owner of Just Pizza in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada, used paper slips to track orders until about a year ago, when he installed a POS system from Lynden, Wash.-based Speedline Solutions Inc. Once he began exploring the intricacies of the system he noticed a disturbing trend.
  • Rempel estimates the employee took in excess of $1,500 before he was caught.
  • whose system now requires fingerprint I.D.
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  • "I never would have known any of this if I didn't have the POS," Rempel said. "That definitely was what alerted me to it."
  • Employees can't clock in before their scheduled time, and with fingerprint I.D. systems, other employees can't swipe I.D. cards for coworkers.
  • "I'm the one guy that for seven years said I didn't need a POS system," Rempel said. "Now, I'm the guy that says if you don't have one you are crazy."
  • Adison Heyne on 10 Oct 13
     
    This article gives a few examples of how POS systems can help to prevent theft from employees and even from customers. By implementing POS systems in restaurants owners are able to track orders, how much is paid, how much was comp'ed and so on. This helps owners to keep track of products and sales whereas with a paper system, receipts can be lost, written incorrectly and maybe all sales aren't logged.
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Swiss business hotel stands out with their green initiatives - 1 views

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  • Energy saving measures includes the installation of a new air conditioning system for all guest rooms, LED lighting fixtures throughout the property, and the connection to district heating, provided by the city of Bern. Socio-cultural initiatives include the creation of rooms, fit for people suffering from allergies.
  • The Sorell Hotel Ador is one of the founding members of United against Waste
  • Adison Heyne on 26 Sep 13
     
    The Sorell Hotel Ador is a leader in hotel sustainability. In this article they discuss the many different ways the hotel is sustainable. Not only are they installing products that will reduce environmental impact, but they are also working with other programs outside of their hotels. They are also focusing on important factors of sustainability such as economic issues, cultural issues and of course as mentioned before environmental issues.
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5 Tips For Global E-Commerce Success - Forbes - 1 views

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  • To decrease e-commerce friction and cart abandonment, set prices in every relevant local currency,” says Vodnik.
  • Showing sales taxes in a way your online customers are familiar with will avoid suspicion and increase buyer comfort.
  • Adison Heyne on 21 Sep 13
     
    This article gives simple advice to any business looking into global e-commerce business. I think these points would be valuable to any company, but mainly hotels. Many large hotel corporations are global and international and have to deal with issues listed in this article.
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India's Fortune Hotels Adds 19 Hotels and Switches Seven to Pegasus Solutions - 2 views

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  • Partnering with Pegasus Solutions has enabled us to launch 19 of the properties onto the global distribution systems (GDS) for the first time, increasing their worldwide exposure across the electronic distribution channels exponentially.” 
  • Adison Heyne on 15 Sep 13
     
    The article highlights what Pegasus Solutions can offer their customers, and who those clients are tending to be. Pegasus Solutions offers many different pieces of software for an affordable rate to their customers and this is a large reason as to why customers are using their services. It also touches on a few differences in Western hotel business and Indian hotel business.
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Cloud infrastructure: Three views from the IaaS sharp end | ZDNet - 0 views

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  • With its promise of lower costs and greater flexibility, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) already accounts for the largest single area of cloud spending.
  • Others, such as the Kempinski Hotels group, are for the moment progressing through an interim phase, with a considerable amount of infrastructure provided by the cloud but with the rest remaining on premise.
  • The proposed model consisted of concentric levels of security with a highly secure environment at its centre, which only AWS services can talk to. The next level was only accessible to AWS and the Geneva corporate office with its 10-strong IT department, with a subsequent level for the hotels, followed by a level for public access for web services and third parties.
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  • The answer was a Vyatta redundant soft firewall that allowed Ward to create a VPN tunnel from all the Kempinski properties.
  • Action for Children's decision to move the web operation onto Rackspace's Open Cloud is designed to solve online scalability issues, but also offers the charity a chance to shift some of the massive datasets of customer, donor, fundraiser and foster parent information to the cloud.
  • "We need to be able to do these analyses when they're needed. This is where the cloud really comes into its own and delivers in terms of cost savings. It means people can still use the infrastructure and the fundraising CRM system, but we can run major pieces of analysis without impeding other people's workloads or slowing down our internal network."
  • "Stick something together on a cloud instance, test it and see if it works. No, it doesn't, drop it, pull something else out — the amount of time to set it up is less, the amount of money spent on putting it together is less," he says.
  • Adison Heyne on 05 Sep 13
     
    This article looks at the growing trend of the cloud system. You hear the opinions from a few different companies in varying industries on the trending system and how they are implementing the cloud system. Some of these companies are slowly moving towards a total cloud infrastructure, but none of them are fully there quite yet.
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