Cloud Computing

This past April, Hospitality Technology magazine announced the winners of the 2012 Hotel Visionary Awards at the Hotel Technology Forum. Four forward-thinking hotels were awarded the honor in two categories: Infrastructure Innovator and Guest-Facing Innovator. This year's honorees are Flamingo Las Vegas, Gaylord Entertainment, Hilton Worldwide and La Quinta Inns & Suites. The executives behind the technology initiatives share the award-winning hotels' stories.

The hospitality industry as a whole should embrace the benefits of cloud technologies as services ranging from human resources to business intelligence all have cloud-based options.

Texas Western uses cloud BI to automate data gathering, analysis and reporting for 53 hotels.

Travel Tripper teams with Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud to make web-scale computing easier.

iPads, iPhones and mobile devices are revolutionizing the hospitality industry. Hotel executives discuss the benefits of implementing mobile technologies to give workers greater capability to better serve guests and meet expectations at service levels.

Restaurant owners see benefits in cloud-based services for the point-of-service, but raise concerns about security and operational efficiencies. During a recent roundtable at HT magazine's MURTEC, a group of operators discussed the merits and possible pitfalls of moving to the POS to the cloud.

Hoteliers are craving mobility in property management systems to enhance and streamline daily operations, but developing the technology requires diligence from both operators and tech providers.

Highpointe Hotel Corporation is upgrading to a new BI system that boasts advanced data analysis and mobile iPad functionality.