NEUSS, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire/ --
- 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.
The MICROS logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems,
Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective
owners.
MICROS-FIDELIO GmbH
