An effective HRIS could benefit a company a lot. First of all, all the numbers, payrolls, employee information is easy to track and very clarified. It could bring a better administration function like enrollment, status change and some company's document. Especially some of the HRIS could let employees enable themselves to update their information and free HR people for more strategic works. And the most important thing is employees could use data for their knowledge development, job growth and development. From my personal experience when I was doing internship in hotel, for the day they hired me they already got me a lot of information, and later offer me an website, saying that I can see some rules documents in the intranet. That was impressive, I saw some of training information on it and downloaded it. Those materials are very useful that I still keep it in my drive. I believe a lot of people may have the same situation with me.

To gain a competitive advantage in Vegas, Station Casinos set up a new platform calls GourpMAX for profession and occasional meeting planners. The added ease of use helps planners maximize bookings by accelerating their booking pace, increasing reservations within contracted group blocks and mitigating attrition risk. 28GroupMAX even helps planners with the very granular details of event planning by giving them an easy way to capture individual guest information, such as meal preferences, arrival and departure times, RSVP details and more.

Email marketing, is quite old school but efficient way to provide more information to customers.  This kind of email marketing is about "Trigger-based" email, it would send to customers when customers had some specific demand and click at the link, then it would email some more rewarding information back to the customers' email address. From my opinion, this is really good and time saving, not so high-end but quite effective. But the problem is whether the information is complete or correct for customers. I would like to have the email that something I am interested in because it is easy to organize and check about it. Especially when you are not so interested at it first but then you want to figure what it is like but need to google it. 

IHG is a key user of PASSKEY, a cloud based platform as one of the travel industry's de-facto standard hotel booking technologies for meetings and events. And the GroupMAX hosted entirely on line and provided a seamless way for MICE to book their hotel rooms more efficient and convenient process. The 23 IHG properties in Asian-pacific deploying GourpMAX will be equipped with a suite of tools that insure peace-of-mind and higher levels of service for clients, like online booking, live event tracking, automated room lists, etc.  In my opinion, the Group customers playing an important role day by day, as a trend, hotels cann't have the great advantage by only provide a meeting space but more software combined. 

Due to the market segment of the Groups, hospitality industry has focused on the IT investment on Groups. And there are some technologies for leisure and business travelers like virtual concierge service on guest room TVs, more efficient billing, virtual business centers, and on-staff IT team.  All these implements can benefit hotels and customers with a convenient, reliable, and profitable outcome. Besides that, it is super cool. 

For that e-tourism technology, the greatest benefit for them is it can cut down the third party dependency, which can reduce a lot of cost (third-party fee, advertising cost, etc) and attract more kinds of customers.  It can offer direct booking, and the data could be collected real time. Especially it would connect to PMS, and when at night do the night audit, the process is simple but it can save a lot of time and maximize offline revenue. An it can easily for owners to see what the profit margin and other marketing analysis. 

For family run business, according to Ms. Bekiroglu, to know its business' better way is to keep up all like payment kiosks, self-check out stations, touchscreen interfaces, etc. and the most important 3 parts are the "chip based credit cards", "new payment services players" and the "enhanced security". Chip based cards is more secure and the data is single used in the transaction, and it can crack down on fraud and identity theft. New payment services players mostly means the apps. From my opinion, the important thing for the whole business world is the security part. One of my friend used the credit card for gas, however, in days, the card had been used over 4 thousands. Finding out the reason is because the leaking information at the gas station. Only the security part has been enhanced, POS systems would be more effective.

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. 

According to the results of "2012 Energy Efficiency IT report", based on 760 IT professionals' view, on cutting energy costs, buy greener gear than to get high-ROI green initiatives. Implementing Energy-star-qualifying equipment got more potential ROI. Server consolidation and virtualization also ranked high among already deployed green-tech projects. And the 8 popular green-technology projects are: server/storage virtualization, consolidating servers, implementing hardware with more efficient processors, implementing energy star-qualifying equipment, deploying more energy-efficient networking equipment, employing energy-efficient ups, employing new cooling approaches,  increased use of hosted services.

Social integration and tablet shopping is quite new. I understand what the author's point that a lot of shops just left a twitter sign or face book sign on the page, but that is not enough. If the shop brought a fabulous dynamic site experience to me, I definitely would share with my friends. And these shops need to focus on the potential customers by reading them. For tablet shopping, I personally love it because it is easy and convenient to shop, and I can get a lot of information from it quickly. Most important is it is portable, I can check it anywhere, any time.

From what I research from the article, VLAN as a local area network itself actually is quite secure cause the fake IP address means a private one.  And it is already encrypted. But the hackers had imitate the hotel's main server. As for the technology developing, it seems like the more secure the system make, the smarter the hacker would be. 

It is an impressive article that a security system could be literally so sound and impregnable. It can monitor and assure all the checkpoints; especially it can scan the contractor IDs while access to the property. As we know the hospitality industry is a meeting ground, labor-orinted and customers diversified, easy to be liable for negligence.  There is news I read in the newspaper years ago, the front desk person accidentally assigned the room key to a guest that has been given to another guest in advance. And that leads to the second guest lost his $5000 in his suitcase. The court decision was the hotel was liable and compensated for the loss of the second guests. The hotel is not only has loss in money but also in the reputation. If the hotel could have the InvoTech's system, it would check all the keys, this situation would never happened. And for the system can automatic scan contractor IDs, all I can say is amazing, it not a easy thing from my eyes. Especially for some luxury hotels, there will have some VIPs, or VVIPs, their security is the top one task for the hotel