Blackball Taiwanese Tea and Dessert Restaurant Chain Gains Big Data Insight with Microsoft’s Cloud Solution. The company is using data from multiple sources, including social media feedback and own product sales, to improve its competitive advantage and make informed marketing decisions.

Taj hotel resorts and palace is using cloud based services to improve WiFi access across domestic locations. This has led to improvement in guest satisfaction and overall network operations.

Hyatt is using cloud services to enable communication, collaboration and saving across all global properties. By moving to cloud services the company has been able to improve communication between the employees and customers which increased customer satisfaction and generated more revenue.

CEOs are startled by the rising expectations of a digital customer. Here is what they expect

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Companies combining the 3 pieces together just the right way

CEOs are responding with 3 power moves

Connecting data and cloud to navigate the transformation

MOBILE FIRST CHANNEL ENGAGEMENT

SCALE WITH THE CLOUD

Design Apps to personalize the travel experience across multiple

points of the journey.

Merge customer data from allsources to build a comprehensive

view of every customer.

Use predictive analytics tounderstand customer behavior

and create highly targeted offersand personalized service.

Support your digital programs bybuilding enterprise class applications

and scalable infrastructure withthe cloud.

PERSONALIZATION

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RESOURCES

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Whether provisioning new machines or deploying apps across devices, the cloud makes it easy to build highly available, infinitely scalable apps and APIs.

Compute The ability to manage high output, low-latency data on the cloud helps to scale predictive analytics and leverage machine learning.

Analytics

The cloud helps in creating Event Notification Hubs to ingest, process, and orchestrate notifications to scale.

Web Scale

Virtual Machines and Load Balancing capabilities help companies automate and stay agile

Agile Infrastructure

Encode, stream and store rich media and deliver them across millions of end points

Media Storage and delivery

What’s KeepingCEOs of Hospitality CompaniesAwake At Night?

Data is the new “Oil” in the hospitality industry

HOW ARE CEOs NAVIGATING THIS DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION?

PROBLEMS CEOs ARE FACING TONAVIGATE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

“I want you to send me my payment details on my mobile”.

Digital mobile payment application makes payment easy and saves the customers from waiting.

Social Media Integration with ordering process and for finding hotel offers and deals.

Personalized guides and recommendations saves customers time and reduces time for decision making.

Apps with real time view of a information about current location and access to reviews from social platforms.

Customers expect to have the same experience across all channels.

“I want to place an order on your social media page”.

“I want you to suggest nearby activities”.

“I want to see places I can visit around me”.

“I want my reservations details across all devices”.

Boosting Customer Experience

Digitizing Operations

Business Model Transformation

Companies are changing the way they run their business by embracing technology. They are transitioning from physical to digital services.

Companies realize the value of customer’s personal data across all touchpoints, which helps them gaincustomer loyalty and win more from existing customers. This is done through predictive analytics approach and information acquired through social channels.

Hospitality Companies are moving towards building digital products by bringing agility in platform building and by digitizing the process to easily roll out new ideas, innovation and new features to market.

32%Golden Gate Hotel and Casino is an early adopter of digital currency, Bitcoin. Through this method, transactions can be closed through tablets and mobile devices. They use ipad devices with bitpay platform to process payments.

customers said they would use a mobile or wireless

payment options

84%Hilton Hotel is using digital technology for check-in, room selection and customization, and check-out across 650,000-plus rooms at more than 4,000 properties worldwide.

business travelers say they want the ability to choose

their own rooms.

27%Yelp helps customers search for restaurants, clubs, bars, and other locations around the area. They can �lter based on what's open, what type of food is served, and how much you can expect to spend, restaurant's hours, users rating and recommendations.

customers have reviewed or posted reviews on consumer’s

recommendation sites like Yelp

61%Hotel Tonight App helps in making hotel reservation on the go. This app has a mobile-only strategy to connect the travelers on road with nearby accomodation services.

travelers desire a mobile application that overlays visual information about

the physical world.

30%Airbnb connects Spare Room/ Accommodation providers with Travelers. They o�er personalized o�ers to match hosts and guests needs by analyzing community-wide rankings, preferences and rental history. customers make use of

mobile apps to find hotel deals.

72%The Wit hotel, through an IP system runs the infrastructure to automate services throughout the customer’s stay. This technology enables customers to send requests to the closest sta� member’s mobile device for fast service.

hotels have apps that help the customers make reservations

via mobile

Mobile devices are not a focus

Lack of Social Presence

Lack of interactive digital technologies

Companies that are not using mobile technology are far behind the race of winning more from customers. .

Companies that are not on social media platforms are missing out of huge amount of customer data.

Companies that are not using interactive digital technologies are unable to meet the expectations of the digital customer.

The American hotel chain Denihan is using big data analytics software to maximize profit and revenue, by combing their own data from review sites, blogs and/or social network website. They analyze likes and dislikes of their guests, optimize their offering and adjust the room rates accordingly.

Caesar Entertainment is using data analytics as the main sources for decision making. Their total reward program is based on analyzing the customers complete journey. With data collection and analysis, Caesar Entertainment has been able to build customer loyalty and provide a personalized experience to their customers.

Marriot is using Big Data Analytics to predict the optimal price of rooms to fill the hotels. They do this by using improved revenue management algorithms that can deal with data faster, combining different data sets and making insights available to all levels to improve decision-making.

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