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Intrawest Corp. Resorts
Team With Datavision To Streamline Information
Leading resort developer becomes latest Datavision convert
Weston, Fla.— January
8, 2003) Datavision Technologies, a software solutions firm that
specializes in data warehousing and business intelligence systems
for the hospitality industry, has added Intrawest Corp., a
Vancouver, B.C.-based resort developer and operator, to its growing
roster of lodging clients. Datavision is installing its Decisions™
Business Intelligence System throughout Intrawest resorts in Canada
and the United States.
"The Decisions™ Revenue Management module is just one of
Datavision’s data-warehousing products that allow users to expedite
the collection and analysis of financial and operational data—all
with the goal of boosting hotel property revenues and cutting
costs."
Decisions™ captures a wealth of information from the Property
Management System on a daily basis—detailed occupancy and revenues
as well as future-business-on-the-books data. All this information
is consolidated into a central data warehouse and presented to users
at individual Intrawest resorts as well as the corporate office.
Within minutes, users can slice and dice the data and perform ad-hoc
analysis or run canned based reports off the consolidated data.
“To accomplish the same task using only the PMS can take hours,”
said Datavision President Sudharshan Chary. “We’ve calculated that
hotels spend 20 to 40 hours a week performing this kind of data
collection and analysis manually. Our hotel clients that have
installed Decisions™ can do the same task in minutes.”
Decisions™ also allows users, as Chary put it, "to capture how the
future looks on a daily basis." He said the system instantly shows a
property's booking pace for any date in the future, and uses history
to automatically forecast occupancy, allowing for manual
adjustments.
“With Decisions™, Intrawest will be able to more accurately—and much
more quickly— forecast rooms into the future,” Chary said. “And
they’ll be able to drill down into the data to capture
market-segment and room-type detail, something that would be far too
unwieldy a task to do with just the PMS."
Streamlining information “We now have all but one of our
resorts on the SMS (Springer-Miller Systems) property-management
system,” said Dave Hartvigsen, Senior Vice President/Lodging for
Intrawest Corp. “We chose the Decisions™ Revenue Management module
due to its excellent ability to extract key operating information
for us from SMS. This technology from Datavision gives us a great
window into SMS and creates the opportunity for us to transform new
data into information that is highly useful to us.”
The Decisions™ module has been successfully installed in six
Intrawest properties: Blue Mountain Resort, near Toronto; Stratton
Mountain Resort in Vermont; the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in
Florida; Copper Mountain Resort in Colorado; Panorama Mountain
Village in British Columbia west of Calgary; and Tremblant, near
Montreal. Plans call for the remaining four Intrawest resorts to be
installed by spring. Ultimately, all will be linked up with
Intrawest’s corporate headquarters.
Chary said independent hotels and resorts and branded properties
alike use Decisions™ to extract key information from all production
systems at the property, including PMS, point-of-sale,
time-and-attendance and payroll systems. The software creates an
integrated data warehouse that can be used by all decision makers in
the company. Data is delivered to the resorts via standard
spreadsheets or via an executive information system.
“In each case at Blue Mountain, Sandestin and Stratton, we are using
the Decisions™ module to give us better insight regarding our
operating statistics,” Hartvigsen said. “More importantly, it is
helping us look at booking pace, which is enabling us to better
manage for the future. With the output information being in an Excel
format, the spreadsheets that are produced are usable and adaptable
by almost any member of our lodging team and at any of our resorts.”
About Datavision Technologies
Datavision Technologies, a privately owned company established in
1996 and based in Weston, Fla., serves more than 50 clients in
hotels and resorts across North America. Datavision’s
data-warehousing products have successfully been used to achieve a
variety of goals, including night audit automation, revenue
management, forecasting, marketing, corporate consolidation, payroll
control, comment-card reporting, owner reporting and group revenue
analysis. For more information, log on to the corporate Web site,
www.datavisiontech.com, or contact Sherry Marek at Datavision
Technologies Inc., 860 Marina Drive, Weston, FL 33327; phone (954)
385-0525, or e-mail smarek@datavisiontech.com.
About Intrawest Corp.
Intrawest Corporation (IDR:NYSE; ITW:TSX) is the leading developer
and operator of village-centered resorts across North America. The
company owns or controls 10 mountain resorts, including Whistler
Blackcomb, North America’s most popular mountain resort. Intrawest
also owns Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Florida and has a
premier vacation ownership business, Club Intrawest. The company has
a 45 per cent interest in Alpine Helicopters Ltd., owner of Canadian
Mountain Holidays, the largest heli-skiing operation in the world.
Intrawest is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia and is
located on the World Wide Web at
www.intrawest.com.
For more information, contact:
Sherry Marek
Datavision
smarek@datavisiontech.com
Tel: (954) 385-0525 x113
Dave Hartvigsen
Intrawest Corp.
dhartvigsen@intrawest.com
Tel: (303) 384-0800 Ext. 104
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