USING THE RIGHT HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS? ASK YOUR GUESTS!

Hotel industry is undergoing a technology driven transformation. Today’s smart hospitality technology solutions not only helps hoteliers automate operations, it also helps them serve their guests better. Hoteliers can adopt various hospitality technology solutions to achieve required operational automation. Read More

By: Varadharajan Athmanathan 

Published in: IDS Next 

A Smart Central Reservation System for Hotels in Odisha

Tourism and hotel industry in India is on a growth trajectory. In this context, the contribution of Odisha, one of the Eastern states on the Bay of Bengal is quite notable. The state offers a range of attractions ranging from wildlife reserves to beaches to century old temples and monuments to both domestic and foreign tourists.

 

Bhubaneswar, the state’s capital city is famously known as the ‘Temple City’. The state also has other distinguished tourist destinations like the Konark Sun Temple, Chilika, the largest brackish water lake and several other Buddhist and Jain monuments. The state also has a long 480 km coastline. Odisha has done well in terms of preserving and promoting most of the temples and heritage sites built in ancient era. Read More

Published in: IDS Next

By: Manoj K Mohanty  

New Solution Launched to Reduce Hotel Check-In Time

While check-in kiosks and other methods of avoiding the front desk have been around for a while, integration of mobile technology into check-in is seeing a speedy adoption.

IDS Next Business Solutions recently launched Easy Check-in, a mobile solution as part of their ‘Easy’ series. The app enables a hotel to drastically reduce check-in time for their guests. Easy Check-in enables your hotel staff to walk your guests directly to their rooms after a tiring journey. Read More

Published in: Voyager's World / IDS Next 

IDS Next’s FortuneNEXT 6i R&B enables better service at The Biere Club

IDS Next’s restaurant management software solution FortuneNext 6i R&B has now enabled The Biere Club (which opened its first outlet on Bengaluru’s Vittal Mallya Road three years ago) to serve its patrons better.

Based on the patrons’ response from guests, its management launched another outlet in Whitefield in 2013. It sports the ambiance of a contemporary English pub, and houses The Biere Chophouse, an old English-style grill house.

“As we grew in terms of outlets and on-menu offerings, to keep up with the guest expectations and streamline the whole process of complex workflow, we decided to opt for IDS Next’s FortuneNext 6i R&B,” said Vishal Nagpal, director, operations, The Biere Club. Read More

Published in: Food & Beverage News

IDS Next’s Distribution Partner in Ethiopia Obtains ERCA Certification

IDS Next Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, a global leader in providing Hotel ERP and software solutions to hospitality and leisure industries, today announced that Micro Sun & Solutions PLC, its sole distributor in Ethiopia has obtained certification from The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA). With this certification, Micro Sun & Solutions PLC and Global Hospitality Holdings can now sell IDS Next’s world-class software to a growing hospitality industry across the African nation.

The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) is an autonomous federal agency that is responsible for collecting revenues from customs duties and domestic taxes. According to ERCA guidelines, all sales register users (transaction done via POS) have to configure their fiscal printers to fulfill several obligations pertaining to the country’s taxation policy. Once the fiscal printer is configured as per ERCA norms, it ensures accurate taxation by recording every taxable transaction. Micro Sun & Solutions PLC received the ERCA certification for both the Front Office and point of sale software of the IDS Next Hotel ERP on 30^th August 2014. Read More

Published in: IDS Next Africa Website 

Is Your Staff Using Your Hotel Software to the Maximum?

IDS Next’s hotel ERP is constantly improving and refining to meet the changing needs of the hospitality industry and IDS software users. Today, our Enterprise ERP has expanded to eleven modules, each offering a high degree of automation, facilitating data collection and providing a comprehensive set of in-depth reports. In this scenario, you should ensure that staffs at your hotel are able to work on the ERP and are able to leverage the same to the fullest to reap desired result. Here is how you should go about it and take a look at our newest illustration on this -

IDS Next rolls out two new mobility apps

Hospitality technology solutions provider IDS Next has rolled out two new mobility apps - Easy Dine and Easy Check-in, as part of it’s strategy to invest in developing futuristic solutions for the Indian market. Easy Dine is an intuitive app that allows hotel staff to take orders quickly and accurately, and raise a KOT even while standing by the guest. The Easy Check-in app enables hotel staff to complete check-in formalities even while escorting the guest to their room.
“This year has been very encouraging and full of actions for IDS Next in terms launching new solutions, entering new geographies and acquiring new clients. Both our new apps, as well as our small hotel software, PAX, have received good response from the market. We also entered newer markets and installed our software in Myanmar and Turkey,” said Binu Mathews, CEO, IDS Next Business Solutions. Read more

Published in: Travel Trends Today

By: Maansi Sharma

Myanmar Based Rose Garden Hotel Adopts IDS Next Hotel ERP

IDS Next Business Solutions Pvt Ltd, a global leader in providing Hotel ERP and software solutions to hospitality and leisure industries, today announced that it has acquired its first client in Myanmar. Yangon based Rose Garden Hotel has adopted IDS Next’s all-in-one FortuneNEXT 6i Enterprise Hotel ERP to automate a maximum number of processes across departments.

The hospitality industry in Myanmar is burgeoning and slated to receive 3 million visitors in 2014. Keeping pace with this trend is Rose Garden Hotel, one of the newest hospitality properties in Myanmar. The hotel has opened its 123 exotic rooms under two categories, namely, The Rose Collection and The Bamboo Collection. Read more

Published in: IDS Next in the Media 

Sophisticated Software Solutions for Hospitality

Like numerous other industries, hospitality industry of post-modern times also needs to bank heavily on a slew of software technology solutions to automate and streamline hotel operations, which include optimising or at least systematising the use of manpower, leveraging multiple distribution channels to grow occupancy, and eventually increasing the profitability of a property.

Bangalore-based IDS Next Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is one of the

reputed names which have been technologically facilitating hotels across the globe. IDS Next's hospitality technology solutions cater to the needs of hotels across various market segments, ranging from large hotel chains and independent hotels, to resorts, restaurants and clubs. Swarnendu Biswas from Hotel Business Review spoke to Binu Mathews, CEO of IDS Next Business Solutions about various aspects of hospitality technology solutions offered by their company. Below is the excerpt of the interview. Read more

Published in: IDS Next / Hotel Business Review Magazine

Can Your Small Hotel Benefit from Hotel Software?

With new hotel projects coming up across Sri Lanka and Maldives, hospitality properties are witnessing stiff competition in terms of attracting guests, serving them better and ultimately staying profitable. Additionally, today’s guests are demanding for facilities like free wi-fi during their stay. If they are happy with your hotels service expect good reviews and a positive word of mouth online. If your guests are unhappy or in any way feel they did not get value for their money, negative comments can actually cause you to lose business. 

 The core of the matter is thus hotels, big and small need to respond faster to their guests and stay strongly focus on delivering quality service. While bigger hotels can deploy their significant resources to engage in online marketing, small and limited service hotels are most likely to face constraints in finding and retaining trained manpower, accessing online distribution channels, ensuring financial transparency and others. Managements of small hotels also assume that software is expensive and requires constantly maintenance. Others feel that software available in the market is meant for large hotels and not suited to their needs. This need not essentially be true. Read more

Published in: IDS Next Sri Lanka Microsite