The article described how HRIS is important and useful to a company. Usually, it can help manage kinds of HR related information; it can help with hire, training and measuring. But this article also referred that it can manage the money spent on benefit plans. Today's CEO need to know how much the HR can contribute to the shareholder.So future of HR analysis has to be linked to other key performance indicators such as revenue and profitability and investing in new HRIS software is need of the hour.

Good facility management of a hotel can make the service indispensable and delight the customers. But it's not a easy work. It is related to almost every department of a hotel. Abaris came up with a facility management solution on cloud. The solution mainly focus on three parts, which are housekeeping service, security services and maintenance & engineering services. With its help, a hotel can change its way to operate the business and ensure integration between operations and back-office departments. As a result, it can provide perfect service to meet customer requirements.

This article introduced the importance of e-marketing in today's internet time and in the future. This kind of marketing is growing rapidly. Including the use of portal marketing, mobile app, mobile websites, and so on. The author was from India. He said online marketing will grow dynamically in India, especially in hospitality industry. I think it's not only for India, for the developed countries, a media plan for any service industry product has online e-marketing as the first channel to reach the target audience.

Meeting industry is fast growing industry in nowadays. It can generate a lot of revenues and provide a large amount of job opportunities for the nation. And the trend of this industry is technology based. Meeting planers and suppliers prefer electronically communication. And video conference is becoming more and more popular. It is safe to say that in today' meeting and convention industry, venues that continues to advance their technological assets will continue to enjoy a competitive advantages over those that go without.

This is an amazing technology. A customer can use his cellphone to do the reservation, check-in, enter the room and pay the bill. If  this technology can be widely used in this industry. It really can bring a lot of convenience to both the hotels and the customers. It is also very safe, because only your cellphone can open your room and the cellphone is also a identification of a customer. But there are two concerns. First is the cost of this technology and the hardware. It can be too much to afford for the hotels. Second, is it really that safety. What if someone lose his mobile?

The article analyzed why hotels do investment to It in 2011. It concluded three main reasons, which are elevating the guest experience, empowering the mobile worker, and enabling operational efficiency. It's already 2013 now and things can become different. Hotels should invent carefully according to its specific necessary and customers' necessary.

Hospitality Financial and technology professionals was developing a global hospitality accounting system in the past year. Their fist step is to cover the UK and continental Europe. The second step is to do search about South and central America and cover them. The third step will begin for China and India, and the last two segments will be Russia and North America. This is quite a large program. If the program was completed, a globally accepted method that financial professional, ownership structure, investors and benchmarking information services can use to support  efficient operations will be formed, and a globally accepted method to monitor investment performance from region to region will also be formed.

Although a POS system is a big investment. You need to purchase the new system, train the employee and maintain the system. But the system indeed can provide a lot of benefits.It can not only calculate payment and process customer payments, but also track the invenyory and labor costs. They still can manage the information and save cost.

This article introduced what are web-based and server-based management system and the pros and cons of each. We can not say which one is better. But a hotel need to consider its specific business requirements and budgets when choosing one. Either one can cause security problem, and security is already not an advantage of server-based management system now. What the hotel should do is to ensure their management system meet the industry data security standards.

This article described the goal of Marriott's environmental initiatives goals and what did they do in all over the world. Marriott plays a leading role in the environmental initiatives in the industry. It can reduce wastes and costs. What's more, it can improve the image of the firm. I think other hotel chains should learn form Marriott and set up their image. This can not only help protect our world and life but also make a great contribution to the development of the company.

Although GDS is now a widely used way to promote sales in nowadays' airline and hotel industry, there are still some disadvantages. This article summarized five main concerns when a company choose a GDS, which are money, priorities, industry stagnation, declining, and controversy. GDS is not always the right answer, a company should make the right decision according to its specific situation.

The PDF can not be highlighted. Here is the summary. This article described the development of telecommunication skill in the hotel industry. It compared the telecommunication with the past communication skill. It told us what the telecommunication skill can bring to the industry, especially to the customers of this industry. At last, according to the development of the technology and the customers' need, hotels should come up with new plan of the service.

This kind of advanced software provide the hoteliers with a good way to do the marketing research and do the analysis. All the hotels can get benefit. Even more, the customers can improve their experience if the hotels do a good job on marketing.