Data Security With Hotelogix Property Management System
It is very important to secure data when you are in the hospitality business. You are in a business of taking a lot of confidential details from the people who are giving you the same with a lot of trust. Running a hotel thus is not only about room bookings, housekeeping but is a lot more. Thus all sizes of hotels are now giving priority to data security like it did before.
Many hotel owners have had problems keeping their data secured. With high rate of attrition and employees coming and going the trust factor has become a very fragile thing. The hotels have faced problems where their staff were found to be stealing critical customer data to sell them to third parties. Data loss also came in the form of virus attacks and system failures. Other forms of threat come in the form of misuse of customer data, data loss due to hardware problems, natural disasters, computer viruses, corrupt files, hard disk crashes etc.
Repercussion of data loss
• Financial issues: Once a hotel looses data the cost of recovery shoots up. A hotel has the probability of facing possible legal expenditures possible fines associated with consumer privacy laws, costs related to guest notifications etc.
• Damages the brand image: it takes dedicated and a lot of effort to build the brand of hotel. As in any other business it takes a lot of time to build the image of the hotel but a minute to wipe it off. Even a single instance of data theft can cause the hotel its reputation.
One such hotel having faced frequent instances of data loss came across the hotel reservation software Hotelogix. The hotel had already been contemplating investing on a traditional client server which would ensure high data security.
Hotelogix is one of its kind of a web based hotel software that has many layers of data security. Hotelogix is hosted on the highly secured Amazon data centers that are widely known for its high capabilities to log data access from the server. Amazon’s EC2 environment which hosts Hotelogix employs state of the art, updated technology and security measures such as redundant power supply, data backup, data mirroring, backup air conditioning, multiple internet connections, 24 hour onsite maintenance and security staff, updated and advanced anti-virus protocols etc.
Hotelogix is built in such a manner that any technological innovation can be fast adopted by the web based hotel software. Thus with increasing cost of recovering lost data, the Hotelogix hotel reservation management system also offers a highly effective alternative to traditional client server based systems. Thus now you can work to better your hotel with absolute data security with Hotelogix.
Author Bio:
Prabhash Bhatnagar is Manager of Sales & Marketing, maker of property management system and property management software handles the key aspects of the running of client’s business, including bookings & reservations, Housekeeping, Spa, POS and generating reports.
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