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    On the Edge with Brian McClary

    by  • May 13, 2013 • 0 Comments

    On the Edge is a new feature intended to provide insight into today’s marketplace. We’ll occasionally interview revenue managers, hoteliers and technologists about what’s going on in their world. We’ll start easy, with friend Brian McClary, the director of revenue & distribution strategy for CoHo Services, a management company based in Vancouver, Wash. The...

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    The Latest – May 13, 2013

    by  • May 13, 2013 • 0 Comments

    This week we’ve launched a very nice enhancement to our booking graph. Booking Graph Overlay Now, you can customize your booking graph to see today’s bookings compared to past dates as well as year over year analysis. We’ve also added the ability to see specific segments on this graph to compare those alongside overall...

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    The Manifest Destiny of the Cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS)

    by  • May 8, 2013 • 1 Comment

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    In the early 2000s Siebel Systems, a traditional on-premise provider of enterprise software, was still the dominant player in CRM (Customer Relationship Management). Salesforce.com, the inventor of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) architecture, was still a tiny startup led by its outspoken CEO Marc Benioff, who espoused “the end of installed software.” Siebel famously said: “There’s...

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    Demand More From Your Technology

    by  • April 29, 2013 • 0 Comments

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    While revenue management has continued to evolve, the tools at the disposal of the revenue managers and the human resources behind the discipline remain largely unchanged. It’s one of the biggest issues facing the hotel industry today and a topic that comes up frequently in the trade press and at industry events. I’ve recently...

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    One-Click Deploy at Duetto

    by  • April 3, 2013 • 0 Comments

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    Build the latest code, take down a server, perform an upgrade, run a few sanity tests, rinse and repeat. Until recently, this was the typical deploy process here at Duetto. Duetto had only a handful of servers at the time, with each server taking approximately five to ten minutes to upgrade. Although the process...

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