MICROS Develops Powerful Direct Connection to Booking.com Utilizing myfidelio.net
NEUSS, Germany, March 3/ - Connection Allows Hotels to Manage Rates, Availability, Inventory and Reservations Directly From Their MICROS Property Management System
MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce the development of a powerful new XML-based direct connection between Booking.com, Europe's leading online hotel reservations company, and myfidelio.net, MICROS's distribution services powered by the OPERA Reservation System.
This unique and innovative solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its MICROS Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its reservation system, utilizing myfidelio.net.
"myfidelio.net is Micros' state-of-the-art distribution services solution and it is fully integrated with all Micros's Property Management Systems. The direct XML connection with Booking.com will empower hotels with the ability to manage the rates and inventory from a single point and to receive reservations directly into the hotel system, eliminating the need to maintain extranets", said Andrea Carrillo Bianchi, Director Business Development for Distribution Logistics at Micros. "We are very pleased with the cooperation with Booking.com and confident that both of our companies will be offering an excellent value to the hotel industry", she continued.
"The interface has been developed in close co-operation with Micros Fidelio. We are very glad that we can add Micros Fidelio to our list of hotel-interface partners", said Martin Lamme, Project Manager Hotels Department at Booking.com. "This is for sure a great advantage for hotels using the Micros Fidelio products as their front office system, as hotels will stay longer bookable on the Booking.com websites without having to deal with the (last minute) availability and rate changes through an extranet. It will save hotels a lot of time on operational level and it becomes easier to offer rate parity".
Myfidelio.net is the "Software as a Service" model of the OPERA Reservation System, an enterprise solution for the hospitality industry, providing central reservation management services and connections to worldwide distribution channels, the GDS and the hotel corporate website.
Myfidelio.net offers full integration with all hotel solutions offered by MICROS, including OPERA PMS, Fidelio Suite 8 in Europe, Fidelio Version 6, and Fidelio Version 7.
About Booking.com
Booking.com is a part of Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN), and is Europe's leading online hotel reservations company, with 19 million room nights sold in the 12 months to 31st December 2007.
Booking.com offers over 40,000 hotels in more than 10,000 destinations and attracts over 20 million unique visitors each month from both leisure and business markets worldwide. Available in 16 languages, the company has offices in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Cambridge, Cape Town, Dubai, Dublin, London, Loulé (PT), Lyon, Munich, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Vienna and Warsaw.
For more information on Booking.com please visit: http://www.booking.com
About MICROS Systems, Inc.
MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 310,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail operations in more than 130 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 20,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale and loss prevention products through its subsidiary Datavantage for more than 50,000 specialty retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS.
For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Vice President of Marketing at +1-(443)-285-8144 or +1-(866)-287-4736. You can also visit the MICROS website at http://www.micros.com or send an email to info@micros.com.
Source: MICROS-FIDELIO GmbH
Company Information: Name: Micros Systems, Inc. Address: 7031 Columbia Gateway Dr. City: Columbia State: MD ZIP: 21046 Country: USA Phone: 443-285-6000 FAX: 443-285-0466 http://www.micros.com
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