LONDON, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROS Systems,
Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), the leading provider of technology solutions
for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce
that InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has selected the
cloud-based MICROS Simphony Enterprise Solution as its next
generation point-of-service solution for 61 UK hotels.
Having worked with MICROS technologies for many years, IHG
decided to upgrade to MICROS Simphony, a cloud-based enterprise
point-of-service solution that offers full support to
multi-property hotel chains.
The solution, hosted in MICROS's datacentres, allows IHG to
eliminate the costs involved in buying and maintaining hotel-based
server hardware, while also ensuring optimum performance at all
times of the day or night in every hotel across its managed
estate.
IHG will also benefit from centralised management tools. Prices
can be updated instantly across every property at the touch of a
button, while improved business intelligence capability will
provide consolidated reporting for all of the hotels, ensuring that
food and beverage sales can be tracked, monitored and analysed. A
single, centralised database provides support for customer
relationship management and intelligent promotions and targeted
marketing.
Jonathan Edwards, Technology
Operations Director, UK&I at InterContinental Hotels Group,
stated: "MICROS Simphony offers significant benefits to our
business. We were keen to move to a hosted solution and MICROS was
able to provide the system to achieve that, while also providing us
with the centralised reporting that we require to analyse sales
across all of our restaurants and bars. By standardising our
systems and business processes, we will be able to realise
opportunities for revenue growth and improve the offerings that we
deliver to our guests."
Frank Ward, Chief Executive
Officer, MICROS Systems UK, stated, "We are delighted to strengthen
and expand our long-standing partnership with the InterContinental
Hotels Group. MICROS is deeply committed to innovation, and this
project is a fine example of how we work with our customers to
deliver the products and services to meet their needs as their
business evolves."
For more information please contact:
MICROS Systems UK Limited
Sarah Clelland
+44
(0)1753 871494
+44 (0)7957
680114
sclelland@micros.com
About MICROS Systems, Inc.
MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the
hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 330,000 MICROS
systems are currently installed in table and quick service
restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment,
and retail operations in more than 180 countries, and on all seven
continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management
systems, central reservation and customer information solutions
under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 26,000 hotels
worldwide, as well as point-of-sale, loss prevention, and
cross-channel functionality through its MICROS-Retail division for
more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded
through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS.
About InterContinental Hotel Group
IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is a
global organisation with nine hotel brands including
InterContinental® Hotels & Resorts, Hotel Indigo®, Crowne
Plaza® Hotels & Resorts, Holiday Inn® Hotels and Resorts,
Holiday Inn Express®, Staybridge Suites®, Candlewood Suites®, EVEN™
Hotels and HUALUXE™ Hotels & Resorts. IHG also manages Priority
Club® Rewards, the world's first and largest hotel loyalty
programme with over 69 million members worldwide.
IHG franchises, leases, manages or owns over 4,500 hotels and
more than 672,000 guest rooms in nearly 100 countries and
territories. With more than 1,000 hotels in its development
pipeline, IHG expects to recruit around 90,000 people into
additional roles across its estate over the next few years.
InterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company
and is incorporated in Great
Britain and registered in England and Wales.
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