What Accounting Software Features Matter Most to SKY Hospitality & Widewaters Hotels?

SKY Hospitality and Widewaters Hotels, LLC have selected Aptech’s Profitvue enterprise back office solution to provide accounting processes across multiple-branded properties. SKY Hospitality will also implement the Aptech Execuvue business intelligence system.  

 

SKY Hospitality: performance-based decision making

SKY Hospitality selected Profitvue for its streamlined reporting and Execuvue for its analytics, according to Janet Bush, vice president of operations. “We wanted a hotel-specific accounting system to grow our business and enhance our resource planning,” she says. “Profitvue’s ad hoc reporting features enable us to look at all our properties side-by-side to make performance-based business decisions without rekeying data.” 

 

SKY assessed several performance management systems to identify a financial system that best supported the company’s expanding needs. “We felt the Profitvue solution and Aptech’s support and service team were superior to the other systems we evaluated,” says Bush. “SKY will have Profitvue and Execuvue fully deployed in nine Microtel Hotels by the end of the first quarter 2011.  We will interface Profitvue with our property management systems for a seamless data exchange and greater efficiency.”

 

Widewaters Hotels deployed Profitvue at two managed properties after the system passed its professional evaluation process. “We hired industry consultants to assess the best hotel accounting technology available,” says COO Robert Arigo. “Our evaluation showed Aptech was the most experienced hotel accounting company, its systems were solid, and that it provided excellent professional service.”

 

After owning and developing properties for Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood, Widewaters recently launched its own management company. “Aptech has a track record of supporting hundreds of hotels and multi-property groups,” says Arigo. “They also have experience with the largest chain flag operations.  As we expand our management organization, we can rely on Aptech to provide systems that support our growth and are easy to use.” Profitvue handles single hotel operations, and multi-property and multi-company accounting.    

 

Profitvue is available as a standalone application or as a thin-client Internet-enabled ASP hospitality back office solution.  Aptech hosts the application at its secure data center and manages responsibility for data backups and system maintenance. Hotel operators require only a PC and Internet connection to manage all their property financials, corporate accounting, and reporting needs.