The event management software market study discusses the key trends within countries contributing to growth of the market, as well as analyses degree at which drivers are influencing the market in each region. The key regions and countries assessed in the event management software market report include North America (U.S., Canada), Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Rest of Latin America), Western Europe (Germany, UK, France, Spain, Italy, , Nordic, Benelux and Rest of Western Europe) Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland and Eastern Europe) APEJ (China, India, ASEAN, A & NZ, and Rest of APAC), Japan and MEA (North Africa, South Africa, GCC, and Rest of MEA) in the  global event management software market report.

The key competitors covered are Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., Cvent, Inc., Bizzabo Inc., Eventbrite, Inc., Eventzilla, etouches Inc., Zerista, Certain Inc., Ungerboeck Software International, Social Tables, Gather Technologies, Inc. and Xing Events.

Telecommuting Is The Only Way Of Working For Many

With the remote working concept taking center stage, re-evaluation of these policies is needed to address the new cyberthreats.

With millions of employees working from home, hackers’ focus has shifted from enterprise to remote working individuals. To handle the menace that exists in cyberspace, decentralized cybersecurity will rise where greater emphasis will be placed on data sources such as actual remote employees themselves.

User access controls have largely revolved around single or two-factor authentication. These methods rely on “something you know (username)” and “something you have (password).”

This means identity protection will be a top priority, and the best defense should involve building authentication systems that focus on “who you are.” This would require advanced biometric solutions such as fingerprint/thumbprint/handprint, retina, iris, voice and other facial recognition technologies.

The current state of privacy regulations is designed around the enterprise network and building the proverbial wall to keep sensitive data out of prying eyes.

With swift digitalization, security controls will shift to data sources, similar to the trend witnessed in IoT.

From a risk management perspective, global privacy policies will need to encapsulate standard operating procedures regarding BYOD, GDPR compliance and state privacy laws.

The shift to cloud services offers employees, customers, suppliers and everyone else across the ecosystem a seamless and frictionless way to access data and applications. Remote access by various users would compound security challenges and present many new potential attack vectors. In the post-pandemic world, IT resources could shift toward data, particularly keeping data secure across cloud platforms.

This will facilitate cybersecurity teams to apply varied access controls and demarcate data storage to minimize the risk of cyber intrusion and data breach.

Innovative technologies such as ML/AI and AR/VR will see greater adoption. As we have already witnessed, video conferencing applications will continue to rise as non-contact interactions surge.

Sectors such as retail, hospitality and manufacturing will layer their adoption of robotics with added AR/VR capabilities.

Cybersecurity teams that are saddled with an events-based approach will be overly burdened with triages when a cyber breach occurs. By embracing an intelligence-driven approach, businesses can digitalize confidently with external threat intelligence as the guiding beacon.

Social engineering techniques to trick untrained and unsuspecting employees, third parties and contractors into releasing confidential information or letting an intruder into a corporate network will also intensify accordingly.

Cybersecurity awareness training for people across the entire supply chain and ecosystem will prevail.

However, these programs allow staff - from management to the room attendants - to know exactly what is happening in the hotel right at that exact moment, which is of vital importance.

One of the other great challenges that these programs can address is the collection of data, and the ability to produce factual reports on areas that have historically been based purely on anecdotal evidence. Whereas before, there would be rough estimates on how long each room would take to be cleaned, this information is now collected from the software and can be tabulated and reported however the hotel needs it. It also eliminates the need to go trawling back through overflowing filing cabinets to find out the frequency and cost of previous repairs - everything is now all collated together and much more easily accessible.

These days with the use of apps, barcodes, and QR codes, a simple luggage tag can be a valuable way to be able to record exactly where an item is and how it has moved around the hotel from storeroom to guest room

how hotels can deliver these experiences is changing, and hotels must move with the times and arm themselves with the tools of today to deliver this

sought nearly $440,000 in loans claiming that he needed to pay dozens of employees at three restaurants he owned

two of the restaurants weren’t open before the pandemic began, and he didn’t have any connection to the third

And a patron is more likely to be drawn into a fuller description of a wine or spirit rather than by a line or two on a menu.

Restaurants using the full capacity of e-menus, particularly fast-casual establishments that connect to the POS (point of service) system, enable customers to choose their food and drink, place an order and pay.

Restaurants can customize e-menus and updates with a click of a button. Another feature of e-menus are multiple language options. Restaurants with tourists are able to view the menu in their native language.

it’s time-effective to put wines and desserts on an e-menu because the selection is changed up less frequently than the food, for example, which can change daily.

A restaurant can use e-menus to feature and promote private rooms, catering packages, special events such as sports games, bands and more.

Or, the e-menu can be used to promote a sister, or a chain of restaurants.

we’ve reconsidered that because the human touch is so important in the dining experience

Issues of concern include credit card security. Until and unless the transactions (bill payments) are PCI-DSS complaint, a customer’s credit / debit card data is at stake. A customer drops the tablet on the floor by mistake and the screen breaks. Who fixes it? Or replaces it?  The 8 North Broadway chef says his tablets are guaranteed for wear and tear. And there’s theft.

mobile pre-check-in, online payment portal, digital signature capture and express mobile check-out, and streamline front office processes eliminate unnecessary points of physical guest contact

additional touchless operations such as mobile key, kiosks, SMS/text messaging and more

estimates suggest collection levels are still around 50 per cent below normal levels for the time of year

Concern is growing over the treatment and disposal of lithium ion batteries

Unless processed and recycled safely, lithium batteries pose a serious fire risk

lot of these batteries are being put into household waste bins or thrown into skips at recycling sites. And they are not then treated with the caution that is needed

The termination also affects Abacus, Sabre’s Asia-Pacific booking system.

Lufthansa Group is the leader of the pack in Europe when it comes to New Distribution Capability

The absence of a renewal reflects Lufthansa’s push towards selling directly — although Lufthansa told Skift it wanted to reiterate Sabre cancelled the agreement, not the airline group.

With the contract due to end soon, one industry observer believes the distribution deadlock is simply a negotiating tactic.

Many airlines have had time to weigh up distribution strategies over the past few months, but with the no real end to the crisis in sight, it would make little sense to limit their options.

Southwest, for example,  recently placed its full family of fares on Travelport’s Apollo and Worldspan global distribution systems.

Sabre in particular is having a hard time, with net airline bookings falling 111 percent in March.

they're referring to a hybrid public-private model they've adopted to balance their concerns about security breaches with their desire to reap the benefits of running some enterprises through a public cloud vendor.

This transition to remote work on such a massive scale would not have been possible in the server-led infrastructure of 15 to 20 years ago.

Multiple providers can deliver different levels of services, leading to differing outcomes within cloud and on-premises operations.

Gartner Inc. predicted that through 2020, 95% of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from 2017 to 2018, only 29% of American workers could work from home.

it will be possible even in hotels to unlock your room using face recognition technology powered by Artificial Intelligence.

Chatbots can predict and analyze inputs provided by guests, to offer a highly tailored customer experience. The chatbots can provide solutions to a guest depending on their specific requirements, tastes, and so on.

This smart trend helps the hotel staff to understand whether the guests are happy or not right from the moment of their checking-in to checking-out.

gift shop within a certain range, coupons, and discount vouchers will be sent to them on their registered mobile application to ease the process of purchase.

Robotic interaction in hotels could facilitate more socially distanced models of operation to enable a safer and faster reopening and recovery of some hotels.

During the lockdown period it is likely that hotel managers will be planning for a 'fresh start' in the recovery and rebuilding period after the social isolation restrictions have been lifted