IDS Next Business Solutions becomes one of the ‘preferred hospitality software vendors’ for Best Western International in emerging markets..
BANGALORE – IDS Next Business Solutions, a global leader in providing ERP and total technology solutions for the hospitality and leisure industries announced an agreement with Best Western International, Inc.
In this agreement IDS Next will implement a Two-Way interface between FortuneNEXT’s suite of enterprise software which is widely used by Best Western hotels in India, and their Central Reservation System (CRS). With this interface, bookings from the CRS will seamlessly log into FortuneNEXT property management system. This will do away with the manual effort of feeding reservation data into the property management system, and avoid errors as well.
IDS Next has had a long relationship with Best Western in India.
The IDS Next – Best Western International agreement also makes IDS Next one of the ‘preferred hospitality software vendors’ for emerging markets. IDS Next has an extensive sales and service network in a host of countries in Asia Pacific, South Asia, Middle East, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Africa. Best Western International seeks to leverage this presence to provide the growing number of hotels under their brand with a robust Hotel ERP.
“IDS Next is aggressively expanding in Asia Pacific, East Asia, CIS and Africa regions. As the ‘preferred hospitality software vendor’, we will be able to empower a larger number of hotels of the Best Western Chain with our comprehensive Hotel ERP” said Mr. Binu Mathews, CEO – IDS Next. Besides being PA DSS certified, Fortune suite of enterprise software adopts a modular approach and has a comprehensive integration of both Front Office and Back of the House software. This allows for the seamless sharing of data across the hotel. The Hotel ERP also runs on a single database thus reducing investment in hardware and maintenance costs.
Best Western International, Inc., operates the Best Western hotel brands, which is the world’s largest hotel chain with about 4,000 hotels in over 100 countries.
Scott Gibson, CIO and Senior Vice President of Distribution & Strategic Services, Best Western said, “We are delighted to be working with IDS Next for a Two-Way interface to our central reservation system. A large number of our hotels in India use their software and we see real value in a Two-Way connection between the Fortune Hotel ERP and our CRS”.
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