10-20-10
Guest Sentiment Information Strengthens Business Intelligence, Answers Performance Questions
Hotel review sites like TripAdvisor and Expedia are now major influences that affect property profitability. While comments on these popular travel sites directly impact a property’s bottom line, their written format makes them difficult to track and analyze. Likewise, chain and property guest satisfaction scores provide valuable information on how guests see hotels, but the why behind the scores may be hard to uncover. Until now, correlating written online property ratings and brand comment car (Full Story...)

02-17-10
How to Use Data to Increase Your Profitability in A Changing Business Environment
The changing dynamics in travel today are causing unpredictable peaks and valleys in occupancy and slimmer margins. Traditional hospitality industry forecasting methods based on previous years‟ performance are worthless in 2010. This year, having instant access to performance data that tracks and reports revenue and expenses each day is essential for operators to remain viable. (Full Story...)

10-01-09
Hotel Operators Tap New Profitability Strategies that Work in the Current Economy
As we enter year two of our challenging hospitality industry environment, creative hotel management teams are leveraging skill and experience to deploy effective new business strategies. Innovative management strategies, tech tools, and Business Intelligence (BI) are helping hotel (Full Story...)

06-16-09
Top companies rely on BI systems to spot unnecessary costs, solve problems quickly
In a year of unpredictable travel for most Americans, many hotel management companies are leveraging Business Intelligence (BI) systems with daily data analysis to monitor and optimize business performance. Operators acknowledge there is no magic bullet in today‘s economic climate, but hospitality industry executives value the visibility BI provides into daily expenses, management performance and markets that enables them to make better informed decisions that affect profitability. (Full Story...)

05-27-09
Eye on Innovation: Flow-Through Business Analysis
Julie Keyser-Squires explains the benefits of flow-through. (Full Story...)

03-19-09
How Good Are You at Managing Profitability? In 2009, OperatorsLook to Flow-Through Reporting for Profitability Analysis
Aptech spotlights key measurement tool to build stronger managers, benefit owners and investors (Full Story...)

12-22-08
Chains Use Power Reporting and Dashboards for Better Decisions from ‘Big Data’
The ‘why’ behind the numbers – Execs use new ‘guided ad-hoc reporting’ to manage by exception (Full Story...)

06-16-08
NextGen Business Intelligence 'Humanizes' Technology, Information Delivery
Execuvue’s New Cognos BI 8.3 Business Intelligence Capabilities Enables Customized Information Delivery for Faster Decisions and Greater Profitability (Full Story...)

02-27-08
In The Beginning was the 3-Ring Binder: Hospitality Business Intelligence Shapes Operations for 10 Years
Spreadsheets to dashboards; evolution of BI from technology experiment to the must-have profitability tool (Full Story...)

06-25-07
How Dashboards Drive Profitability
Is your business running hot or cold? Check the dashboard (Full Story...)

11-09-06
Konover Hotel Corporation, Boykin Management Tap Aptech for Business Intelligence and Financial Systems.
Konover Hotel Corporation and Boykin Management signed agreements to install a suite of customized software solutions from Aptech Computer Systems it was announced today (Full Story...)