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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Yanqiu Li

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SuccessFactors Gets Social With HRIS Offering - 0 views

  • SuccessFactors continued its expansion in HR software in early June with a product that aims to blend employee data management with social networking.
  • But the move raises questions about how far talent management specialists should stretch from their roots and about the need for yet another Facebook-like tool.
  • The new product is designed to aggregate basic employee data
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  • there’s a risk of being spread too thin by branching into human resource information systems.
  • HR is going to need to have a social networking strategy,
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    The article released the newest devleopment of HRIS of SuccessFactors. They successfully blend employee data management with social networking. As some executives said, new product wasn't merely a phone number and adress any more, it could include more information about an employee's hobbies, performance and so forth. The new developmen of HRIS enables HR departments to keep insight of their employees, how they are working and think about the job so that they can carry out a more satisfy strategy regarding to both employees and companies. However, some professionals doubt this new product. They questioned that if there are enough space to keep so much information, which may not necessary. Therefore there is stll lots of risky factors to enhance its application of this new developed HRIS.
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The Importance of Web Presence in Hospitality Industry - eTourism Blog - 0 views

  • The arrival of the Internet has increased the opportunities to boost the accommodation industry.
  • Well-informed of the far reaching importance of the web, they are motivated to create more awareness of their industry, on top of getting more bookings online.
  • Online marketing renewed the tourism industry. Social bookmarking, mobile marketing, Web 2.0, online communities and all others have all added up to the change in the impact of the hospitality industry.
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    This article mainly presents an opinion about the importante of webstie in hospitaltiy industiry. It is now becoming the new energy to greatly motivate  hotels.  As the increasing needs of online booking from website, hoteliers have to put more weight on it so that it effectviely meet customers' demands. More video and photos of hotel details are included website to make cutomers vividly learn the hotels they gonna choose. This E marketing tool allows hotels to provide more visual experience to cutomers and capture the target customers in time. Instead of traditional marketing hoteliers use int the early time, Web technology, enable to get more atttentions from customers with fewer employees, reducing labor cost, posters cost and any other advertising cost, which increases revenues of hotels. Also it it provides a more convenient way for hotels to communicate with both clients and customers.
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Unlocking the future: Hotels to see new security technology - Sci/Tech - DNA - 0 views

  • Your mobile can now literally be the key to your future and open many doors, thanks to a new technology that can have your cellphone talking to your locks.
  • Near Field Communication technology that makes mobiles do your work
  • s automatically loaded with an electronic wallet and encrypted code and hotel room number.
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  • The technology enables a user with an NFC-enabled mobile and a booking in an NFC-enabled hotel to breeze in and out, sans all hassles.
  • GPS coordinator
  • pay bills i
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    The article give tourists amazing stuffs while they are travel around world. Instead of keeping a key to guest room, a mobile with new technology app enalbles them to enter their rooms without any key or card and so forth. What's more through this technology, guests can get access to places of interests, shoppiing area to get directions, transportation, drink and food, anything that they need during they are out of hotels. It allows guests to use it as a electronic purse to easily consume anywhere at anytime. Now there are some hotels in USA, are now install this new technology, which indicates a new way for guests to enter the properties. And it will be more sate to carry a necessarymobile with guests rather than a little key or card, which are much easier to lose or be stolen, I believe, the new technology both benefits guests and hotels.
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Accounting Software for Hospitality Industry - 0 views

  • BlackLine’s hospitality and entertainment clients rely on accounting software in the Financial Close Suite to gain visibility and control over their global operations.
  • The Account Reconciliations and Transaction Matching modules ensure that clients like Four Seasons, Starz Entertainment and Royal Caribbean can streamline the financial close and process the immense volume of transactions they receive on a daily basis in a timely manner—especially credit cards.
  • Software-as-Service (SaaS)
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    The article gives a relative brief intorduction of how BlackLine's accounting software worke well in many brands hotels and casinoes.The Account Reconciliations and Transaction enables lots  of hotels such as Four Seasons, Royal Carriebean, Venetian Casino Resort and so forth can streamline the financial close and process the immense bolume of transactions they receive on a daily basis in a timely manner-especially credit cards, which will reduce more risk of credit cards frauds and maintian security  of cusotmers' consideration. One of good applications is SaaS delivery model. BlackLine enhances the application with a more unify  and complete structure and segregation, which prevents others from seeing its data. Another good example is Kempinski has greatly reduce their excess paper and simplified their account reconciliation process via BlackLine's tehcnology. The web-based application enhable hoteliers access to all stakeholders anywhere at any time, which makes hoteliers gain more valuable effiencies reducing time with audits.
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New Trends in Retail Point-of-Sale Systems - 0 views

  • new point-of-sale (POS) systems
  • are helping businesses to cut costs in everything from advertising to labor.
  • sumers are being directly marketed to using ever-evolving algorithms, which are boosting impulse buys. One employee can easily manage a dozen new, retail POS systems. These and other new trends in POS technology can modernize any business.
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  • New developments are taking retail POS systems to a whole new
  • level, however, helping to reduce labor costs and increase impulse purchases, both in stores and on-line.
  • Self-Service Equals Labor Savings
  • Quasi-Personalized Advertising
  • Integrating Brick-and-Mortar and Online Stores
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    The article gives a brief introduction of new developments f POS system in retail industry and how retail gain new benefits from that improvement. From the news, we can see new POS system has been improved for retails by reducing labor costs and increase impulse purchases both in store and on-line. For instance, new self-servce POS system in supermarket enables cusotmers to handle self check out reducing time of waiting for cashiers to check. What' more important this new way of checking out make supermarket hire fewer employees to deal with customers' checks. Another example is new electronic ads of recepits which promote sales of other products while customers most of time will pay attention to recepits information inseading of watching traditional ads for longer time.. As more and more websites install new pos systems, customers presents more perference of this new way of shopping online. I believe that when more and more technology come out and be applied into our life, they will definitely effects the way of life we living as they can provides us with more conveneients to our life.
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Five Major Trends in Property Management Systems - Agilysys Blog - 0 views

  • s property management systems
  • , with  features that enhance efficiency, improve control over processes, enable faster delivery of services, and engender guest loyalty.
  • Trend #1: Cloud computing
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  • Trend #4: Mobile optimization
  • Trend #3: More powerful guest history
  • Trend #2: Product specialization
  • Trend #5: Tighter systems integration
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    This article provide us with 5 major trends of PMS in hospitlaity industry. As mentioned in the passage,innovative technology increasingly enables hoteliers to boost revenues and profitability and serve guests in unique and personalized ways. Which lead to PMS 's new development. First trend of PMS is Cloud Computing: lower operations costs and improved elasticity, which broads PMS utilization. Second trend is product specialization: more and more unique products offered by hospitality industry to meet customers' demands instead of traditionally selling sold as one  application to customers. Third trend is  more powerful guest history: more specifc data to record guest history vistings and so forth, which makes hospitality industry to deliver more valuable personal service. Forth trend is  mobile optimization: online booking through app for instrance, allows guest to check everything whenever and wherever. Last trend is tigher system integration: sensible systems integration enable to make exchanging process of data more fluently to gain more competitive advantage for hospitality industry. So far,we can clearly see that as more specific and unqiue service and product come out, the technology in hospitality industry come to be more details and channels for transferring infornation become the major issue of innovation.
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Why and How Hotels Need to Go Green? | Hospitality Technology - 2 views

  • Eco consciousness
  • guests are conscious about
  • a low carbon footprint.
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  • energy efficient, are pro environment
  • 80 per cent of travelers
  • are willing to pay extra to visit an eco-friendly destination
  • “green technology”
  • Wireless controllers
  • Key Cards
  • Lighting
  • Air Conditioning
  • System that responds to guest needs and presence Compact hot water distribution systems that allow hot water to reach end users faster Dual flush toilets that use less water High performance fireplaces Lighting and fans that automatically turns off when it senses the room is empty
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    This article give relative brief summary of green technology trend and benefits for hospitality industry. Green technology' s prosperity results from eco awareness increasing of the customers. Nowadays, about 70%people would like to care whether the hotel is eco-friendly, engergy efficiency and low carbon dioxide when they are travlling around the world. They also would like to pay extra money to this trend. This social cocious require hotels to react as soon as possilbe to meet cusoterms new demands. From the article, we learn that to better meet customers' requiements, geen techonlogy application will be the one of the most effective way to realize customers'needs. However, one of the most difficulty problems for supporting this requirement is implement fees so costly, which set barriers to many hotels. Thus, there are still monetary issues to think about for hotelers.
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10 Reasons to Consider Tumblr for Ecommerce Blogging | Practical eCommerce - 0 views

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    This article summarized 10 reasons why people consider to use Tumblr for blogs. As one of the most active tools to enhance Ecommerce industry's prosperity, Tumblr presents us more and more advantages in this market. It is embraced by lots of young people, perfectly comining WordPress, Twitter and Pinterest into Tumblr platform. Also Tumblr has a large capacity to share blogs, links  in high frequency with a much easier access to people even they have little knowledge and technical skills of it. As the number of Tumblr users increase, Tumblr becomes one of the biggest competitors of Facebook, occupies the second place of platform. I believe folllowed by technology fast innovation, there wil be more and more options for us to choose to convey information and people look forward more creative stuffs to make life easier.
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Blue Mountain Networks Unveils M-Suites to Bring Carrier-Grade VoIP Services to Hotel G... - 0 views

  • Blue Mountain Networks
  • a cloud telephony management software developer and solutions integrator for the hospitality industry
  • VoIP services
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  • a technology that gives hotels the ability to transition from an expensive PBX legacy design to a product that allows hospitality to take advantage of its fluctuating operating environment.
  • he Blue Mountain Network’s software, M-Suites, provides a robust suite of hospitality features and interfaces that enhance the carrier’s portfolio by providing new cloud-based capabilities for the hospitality market.
  • ILEC and CLEC Carriers
  • PBX systems
  • Blue Mountain has allowed us to offer operators the opportunity to expand their services portfolios with a new set of revenue-generating services geared toward the hospitality industry
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    This article gives a brief summary of Blue Mountain Networks offering new clod telephony management system software, which will enable Metaswitch's MetaSphere platform to bring carrier-grade VoIP services all the way to the hotel guestroom.On the one hand, this new technology will provide a robust suite of hospitality features and interfaces that enhance the carrier's portfolio by providing new cloud-based capabilities for the hospitality market. On the other hand, it extends beyond software to enable its ILEC and CLEC Carriers to offer "Pay-As-You-Go" occupancy based rates for the hotel sector as well.  This unique feature gives hotel properties an economical path to purchase state-of-the-art communication services as well as utilize a robust hotel feature set based on Metaswitch Networks' MetaSphere platform that enables hospitality to reside in the cloud. Besides this new benefits, it also innovate the PBX systems, which expands their services portfolios with a new set of revenue-generating services geared toward the hospitality industry. As general analysis from author, we can clearly see how dramatic that the technology influences our hospitality industry, every second, things goanna be changed and this new trend will put more weight on hotels' revenue related to unique features set of the industry.
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REVENTION POS - 0 views

  • Bomgar remote support solution
  • Revention’s search for a new remote support solution began with the previous solution’s inability to meet the company’s growing needs and comply with rigid security standards.
  • security is a major focus for their business,
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  • fulfilled all of our current requirements
  • Bomgar solution
  • pre-built integration with Salesforce.com
  • it’s imperative that you access them in a highly secure and completely auditable manner.”
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    In this article, basically, it tells us two main reason why Bomgar Reomote Support for 20,000 POS. Just like the autor talked in the passage: this software can stay in compliance with the regulations of both the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), which fulfilled all of their current requirement. Another reason is it heavily invest in Saleforce.com, which offers users the most secure access to POS while it also gives them enough guidances of how to use it, which become the most important reason for users to select this software because it's imperative that thy access them in a highly secure and completely auditable manner. In my eyes, it did really well in reduce users top anxierty of security. Personally, I think if every technology can solve consumers' top securiy problem it will be the biggest success.
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