In this article, the author listed four ways to protect privacy of employees. first is an HRIS stores employee data in a secure and uniform fashion; second is uniformity is generated by the automated nature of a well-designed HRIS; third is Any HRIS worth its salt includes automated updating to ensure compliance with federal and state laws and regulations; forth is an HRIS doesn't hold a grudge or have an ego.

In this article, the author said that the event planning industry is a big industry which over $500 billion spending world wide, and it will get bigger. It also introduce some basic stuff like the purpose, the tasks, why hire a event planner and what people will be a event planner.

This article is based on the Boston Marathon bombing and talk about the security in hotel. In hospitality industry, it's easy to be in danger because the staffs are trained to please the potential consumers in order to not be complaint. The best way is to install more security facilities, like install cameras, corporate with police. One more advise in this article is the staff should be trained to pick up and investigate unattended bags or luggage, I think that isn't a good idea because like what I said, the hospitality staff don't like being complaint.

Accounting software is as important to the restaurant industry as it is to any other economic sector. Industry executives pay attention to operating profit levels and the performance of their businesses, focusing on factors that affect customer satisfaction and pricing strategies, for example. Financial applications also help restaurant owners...

This article mainly introduce a mobile app-Brink software, it's a cloud-based POS app, the new technology can replace the order, process payments, manage their loyalty account, and redeem rewards based cloud. cloud-based will be an important technology in the future, last week, we talked about cloud-based PMS, and this article talks about cloud-based POS. I think more and more service will be served more convenience.

This article talks about six trends about PMS in the future. those trends can add revenue, lower expenses, and improve guest service and loyalty, those are cloud hosting, advances in online guest engagement, data gathering, data analysis, and professional online training. the article predict the technology would be more like on this week's discussion-cloud based PMS. The article predict that if use cloud based PMS, the hotel can have more revenue and profit.

This article introduced a technology has been applied in Europe and Asia for years that is Key-card management. This key-card management system links to heating, cooling and lighting system in guestroom with a monitoring in a slot besides door. In Europe and Asia, it has been demonstrated key-card management system is a successful system, that can save 20%-40% energy bill inside guest room. Although US hotels don't apply this system at beginning, now, more and more hotels has taken key-card management system. The hotel GM which taken this system said that is save a lot of energy bill after using this system.

Since China has joint WTO, China promise to open its market to foreign companies one by one. Although the foreigner companies know that Chinese business environment has huge difference from the western countries, all of them want to get into China and want a piece of pie of this huge market. In the report, the three GDS-Abacus, Travelport and Amadeus-have a positive opinion of the business future in China.

this article says that cloud system has four advantages, however, I disagree with the third advantage in the article which is stronger security, in my opinion, cloud system has a big issue in security, because users cannot tough or manage the data, the server manage it, if a administrator want to delete it or change it, no one can stop he or she. I agree with the rests, cloud system may be the most system in the future, all the it companies pay much attention in cloud system. cloud system would play a big role in hospitality industry.

go green is important not only for the industry but also for the whole earth, because pollution is one of the biggest issue for every countries' government. in this article, it also talk about the major concerns in hotel industry, AC system and water conservation. go green not only save hotels' money, but also increase profit margin. Go green is a important step for hotel to go, and it have to go green for the future step for hotels.

This article describe some advantages of HRIS, such as data storage, ease update and efficiency. HRIS has huge data storage, it can easy to track employees' working behavior; ease update, HRIS is a computer system, it can easy to delete can update any data; and in some field, it can be a replacement of handwriting.