It’s important small businesses choose the right point of sale (POS) system, which streamline the sales process, ensuring payments are made quickly and securely. A POS system can also make a small business appear more professional and legitimate, which is particularly important for business’s just starting out.

Choosing a Property Management System (PMS) is an important decision for any hotelier. A PMS affects front desk operations through to accounting and IT, which is why knowing what to look for is important. A PMS can help in streamlining the workflow that comes with managing a property, saving you time and increasing your revenue. It’ll also give you more time to interact with your guests.

Environmental care, minimization of waste, conservation along with the use of sustainable practices (reduces, reuse, recycle) can bring significant cost reductions for organizations. Sustainable development strategies also concern the environment, and have to do with the company's capability to operate efficiently in the present without compromise its adeptness to operate efficiently in future. Most European governments and hospitality businesses have significantly embraced sustainable growth philosophy. Research made by the International Hotels Environment Initiative showed that 90% of UK citizens, 70% of Australian, and 30% of Americans accept that the hospitality industry in general has a negative impact on the environment. Societies, hospitality organizations, consumers, governmental agencies, construction companies, tour operators and other stakeholders, cooperate to resolve all environmental and social issues that have negative impact in the industry, using sustainable practices.

The client-server model of networking was originally developed to share access to database applications among larger numbers of users. Compared to the mainframe model, client-server networking gives better flexibility as connections can be made on-demand as needed rather than being fixed. The client-server model also supports modular applications that can make the job of creating software easier. In so-called two tier and three tier types of client-server systems, software applications are separated into modular components, and each component is installed on clients or servers specialized for that subsystem.

The real trick to achieving green IT is to accept the fact that your current IT assets are fixed. You’re not going to lose a lot of physical servers. What you can do, however, is get a better idea of your current servers’ utilization and a feel for which servers are more efficient. Identify which of your servers produce more workload for less energy. By identifying the most efficient machines and those with extra capacity, you can start to slowly consolidate tasks—using virtualization, in most cases—and perhaps reduce energy costs a bit.