DVEnterprise creates an on-site data warehouse at
your property, and populates it everyday by automatically
extracting data from the systems you already have in place (PMS,
Golf/Spa, POS, Time clock, Sales & Catering, etc.) Once data is
automatically extracted and consolidated, users can access the
warehoused data via standard Microsoft Excel™ reports or by
querying the database to create instant reports on the fly.
Since DVEnterprise is a true data warehouse, all its
information is retained perpetually. This makes it easy to compare
yesterday’s information to data from years prior, or compare
against budgets and forecasts. You can also automatically
aggregate weekdays, weekends, week to date, month to date, year to
date numbers in your reports without having to setup complicated
macros. You can create reports in seconds or minutes that would
otherwise take hours, or in some cases, be almost impossible to
duplicate manually.
Standard reports can be pre-created in Excel, mixing data
warehouse formulas with Excel formulas. Thus, you can automate and
continue using your existing reports or create new reports that
allow for dynamic user interaction. You can also create reports on
the fly, with absolutely no programming.. Since Excel is the
primary front end, there is virtually no learning curve to begin
using DVEnterprise.
Reports created in Excel can also be published to the Intranet
site and viewed in HTML format while maintaining report
interactivity.
PRIMARY BENEFITS
One of the biggest benefits of DVEnterprise is the
fact that you can finally get information from all your key
systems from a single source. You can thus mix and match data from
the PMS, POS and Timeclock on the same report, making it fairly
straightforward to create daily flash reports. This is of
particular benefit to the hotel’s accounting who usually spend
hours printing out reports from various systems and manually
re-keying numbers into spreadsheets.
Revenue managers in particular realize tremendous benefits from
using DVEnterprise. In addition to the key data
required for flash reporting, the system extracts information-rich
data from the PMS every day – historical and future business by
market segmentation, booking sources, guest geography, room types,
travel agency business, group business, etc. The system also
tracks the spending patterns of guests during their stay – room
revenue vs. recreational spending (golf, spa, F&B, etc.)
