Since no Performance Management (PM) systems specific for the hospitality industry seem to exist in the market, it was decided to evaluate the commercial viability of such a system by developing one and making it available to hotels in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS). Software deployed in the cloud, delivered and licensed as a service is becoming increasingly common and accepted in a business context. Although PM and Decision Support Systems (DSS) are not usually distributed in the SaaS mode, there are some examples that this is changing. To evaluate the system in both the technical and business perspectives, a prototype was developed using the Design Science Research (DSR) methodology and made available to four hotels. The results revealed that hotels were very satisfied with the system and that building a prototype is a good method to develop and assess PM systems.Keywords: software as a service; performance management; design science research; business intelligence; data analytics; hospitality. ResumoUma vez que não foi encontrado nenhum sistema de Gestão da Performance (GP) específico para a indústria hoteleira, decidiu-se avaliar a viabilidade comercial de um sistema deste tipo, desenvolvendo e disponibilizando um sob a forma de Software as a Service (SaaS). Software implantado na cloud, disponibilizado e licenciado como um serviço, está a tornar-se cada vez mais comum e aceite em contexto empresarial. Embora os sistemas de GP e os Sistemas de Apoio à Decisão (SAD) não sejam normalmente distribuídos no modelo SaaS, há alguns exemplos que provam que tal está a mudar. Para avaliar o sistema tanto na perspetiva técnica como na de negócio, um protótipo foi desenvolvido utilizando a metodologia de Design Science Research (DSR) e disponibilizado a quatro hotéis. Os resultados mostraram que os hotéis ficaram muito satisfeitos com o sistema e que a construção de um protótipo é um bom método para desenvolver e avaliar os sistemas de GP.Palavras-chave: software as a service; gestão da performance; design science research; inteligência empresarial; análise de dados; hotelaria. Nuno António • Francisco Serra| 24
This study main objective was to assess the viability of development of a Performance Management (PM) system, delivered in the form of Software as a Service (SaaS), specific for the hospitality industry and to evaluate the benefits of its use. Software deployed in the cloud, delivered and licensed as a service, is becoming increasingly common and accepted in a business context. Although, Business Intelligence (BI) solutions are not usually distributed in the SaaS model, there are some examples that this is changing. To achieve the study objective, design science research methodology was employed in the development of a prototype. This prototype was deployed in four hotels and its results evaluated. Evaluation of the prototype was focused both on the system technical characteristics and business benefits. Results shown that hotels were very satisfied with the system and that building a prototype and making it available in the form of SaaS is a good solution to assess BI systems contribution to improve management performance.Keywords: Business intelligence, decision support systems, design science research, hospitality, performance management. ResumoO objetivo principal deste estudo é avaliar a viabilidade de desenvolvimento de um sistema de Gestão da Performance, entregue sob a forma de "Software como Serviço" (SaaS), específico para o setor hoteleiro, e também avaliar os benefícios de seu uso. O software implantado na cloud, entregue e licenciado como um serviço, é cada vez mais aceite num contexto de negócios. Todavia, não é comum que soluções de Business Intelligence (BI) sejam distribuídas neste modelo SaaS. No entanto, existem alguns exemplos de que isso se está a alterar. Para atingir o objetivo do estudo, foi utilizada Design Science Research como metodologia de pesquisa científica para desenvolvimento de um protótipo. Este protótipo foi implementado em quatro hotéis para que os seus resultados pudessem ser avaliados. A avaliação foi focada tanto nas características técnicas do sistema como nos benefícios para o negócio. Os resultados mostraram que os hotéis estavam muito satisfeitos com o sistema e que construir um protótipo e disponibilizá-lo sob a forma de SaaS é uma boa solução para avaliar a contribuição dos sistemas de BI para melhorar o desempenho da gestão. Palavras-chave:Business intelligence, sistemas de apoio à decisão, design science research, hotelaria, gestão da performance.
In order to increase the hotel's competitiveness, to maximize its revenue, to meliorate its online reputation and improve customer relationship, the information about the hotel's business has to be managed by adequate information systems (IS). Those IS should be capable of returning knowledge from a necessarily large quantity of information, anticipating and influencing the consumer's behaviour. One way to manage the information is to develop a Big Data Warehouse (BDW), which includes information from internal sources (e.g., Data Warehouse) and external sources (e.g., competitive set and customers' opinions). This paper presents a framework for a Hospitality Big Data Warehouse (HBDW). The framework includes a (1) Web crawler that periodically accesses targeted websites to automatically extract information from them, and a (2) data model to organize and consolidate the collected data into a HBDW. Additionally, the usefulness of this HBDW to the development of the business analytical tools is discussed, keeping in mind the implementation of the business intelligence (BI) concepts.
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