23 June 2009

Datavision Announces Business Intelligence System Built on the latest Microsoft Technologies
Datavision's best-of-breed Business Intelligence System now utilizes Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Silverlight

Fort Lauderdale, Florida -- Datavision Technologies releases the latest version of its flagship Business Intelligence Suite, built on the latest Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight.

Datavision Technologies is the leader in intelligent solutions for the hospitality industry, streamlining the decision making process for users across the enterprise. Working with systems already in place (PMS, POS, Time clock, Spa, Golf, etc.), Datavision creates an integrated data warehouse and delivers a 360° view of the business on demand with a variety of business intelligence tools.

“Our relationship with Microsoft signals a strategic effort to develop and deliver critical business intelligence information to the end user,” says Sudharshan Chary, President of Datavision. “Datavision is proud to be working with Microsoft to bring this technology to the hospitality industry. SQL Server 2008 is a highly scalable platform, enabling Datavision to use this in a variety of customer locations from individual hotels to large multi-property management companies.”

“Business intelligence solutions are must-have tools for operators to connect information, processes, systems, and people across their enterprise to drive business performance, guest satisfaction and cost reductions,” said Sandra Andrews, U.S. hospitality industry solutions director, Microsoft Corp. “Datavision’s solutions, based on the familiar Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform, can empower every employee to easily make a positive difference each day — whether its by offering a more personalized guest experience or better aligning their strategies with overall corporate goals.”

Since Datavision extracts data from all key systems, it is used by multiple departments across the property. Revenue managers use Datavision to analyze and report on room booking pace, market segmentation, Travel Agent business, in room versus out of room spend, etc. The spa department uses Datavision to understand their spa booking pace, booking lead times and analyze retail sales. The golf department uses Datavision to understand the golf booking pace, the number of guests who stay on property versus play rounds, and review retail sales. Accounting uses Datavision to streamline their income audit procedures – automatically collect and balance all financial data (rooms, spa F&B, etc.) and transmit the reconciled results to the back office. Marketing reviews the guest spending patterns in the different revenue centers, guest geographic patterns, and booker and channel analysis.

Datavision understands business rules requirements in the hospitality industry, delivering solutions quickly to the customer. Datavision provides a wealth of data required by many customers and then add additional business rules specific to each customer.

Datavision is successfully used at Pebble Beach Company, Biltmore Estate, Sea Island Resort, Hotel Dupont, Ponte Vedra Beach Resorts, The American Club at Kohler, InterContinental The Barclay New York, Kiawah Island Golf Resort, Mandarin Oriental hotels around the world and other premier hotels and resorts around the world. In addition, hotel companies such as Intrawest Resorts, Ginn Resorts and Clubs, Great Wolf Resorts and Tarsadia Hotels and Resorts use Datavision to consolidate and analyze data from multiple sites.

About Datavision Technologies
Datavision Technologies is privately held and based in the Miami area of United States. To learn more about our intelligent solutions and how our customers use Datavision in their daily operations, please visit our corporate website, www.datavisiontech.com, or contact Sherry Marek at 1 (954) 385-0525 ext 113, or rek[at]datavisiontech[dot]com