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One of the largest players in hotel tech is selling what it says is a simplified system for hotel tech operations, days after a newer player said it's entering the sector with a similar plan.
It can take years for a hotel brand to complete a full tech transformation: Migrating data from old systems to modern, cloud-based platforms is not an easy process.
Scandic Hotels Group, the Stockholm-based operator with 280 hotels in six countries, has completed much of the task in a matter of months, said Laura Calin, vice president of strategy and solutions management for Oracle Hospitality.
Scandic is the first customer piloting an expanded version of Oracle Hospitality’s cloud-based system, which includes several important pieces of tech for a hotel business.
It's called Opera Cloud Central, and is a “unified” system that includes a p