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Choice Hotels’ all-in cloud journey to sustainable business value

CIO Business Intelligence

Choice Hotels International’s early and big bet on the cloud has allowed it to glean the many benefits of its digital transformation and devote more energies to a key corporate value — sustainability, its CIO maintains. It also helped reduce energy consumption and costs. It is the brains of everything — our core system.

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Avoiding a Stay at a Haunted Hotel And Why We Need a Travel App for That

CIO Business Intelligence

Imagine booking a room at a small, charming, off-the-beaten-path hotel on the Hawaiian island of Kauai using a popular mobile travel app, only to discover that the room is… haunted! Even now, an SAP customer or partner could be developing such a tool. That’s what happened to my friend Dana. But that didn’t go as planned.

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IHG maximizes hospitality with multicloud

CIO Business Intelligence

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. IHG’s cloud transformation is emblematic of a greater trend in the hotel industry, says IDC analyst Dorothy Creamer, who has observed heightened activity among hotels “catching up on or beginning transitions to the cloud.” “A

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CIO Leadership Live with Glen McLatchie, Chief Information Officer of SkyCity Entertainment Group

CIO Business Intelligence

SkyCity Entertainment Group Chief Information Officer Glen McLatchie on his career-defining moments, the importance of mentoring and professional development, and the transformation plans ahead for the casino and hotel group after a challenging few years. Watch this episode: CIO, CIO Leadership Live

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HUAWEI eKit makes digital business easy for distributors

CIO Business Intelligence

SMEs generally have their hands full doing businesses, and often don’t have the dedicated teams to lead digital transformation projects on their behalf. Huawei’s aim is to make it easy for small to medium businesses to distribute Huawei products worldwide, with a ready-built web sales platform available.

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How to gain a five star security reputation in hospitality

CIO Business Intelligence

Achieving and sustaining compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a daunting challenge for hotels because they handle many complex payment business cases. In the hospitality industry, hotels are either corporate or franchise entities. Many hotels use Opera PMS, Sihot PMS or some Cloud PMS.

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How Palladium targets tech to better serve the business

CIO Business Intelligence

The result was what is now the Palladium Hotel Group, a hotel chain with 10 different brands spread across Spain, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic. At the end of the 1960s, Spanish businessman Abel Matutes had an ambitious dream to bring paradise closer to travelers by offering incredible experiences.

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