Wyndham Signs on for Next-Gen Technology From Oracle Hospitality
Photo Credit: Dolce by Wyndham is one of Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ 20 iconic hotel brands. This photo is of Comwell Copenhagen Portside, Dolce by Wyndham, which is expected to open in 2021. Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
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Technology is developing faster than many hotels’ ability to implement it, so some chains turn to tech specialists to stay up to date. Wyndham is tapping Oracle Hospitality for its full-service brands and Sabre for its select-service brands.
Wyndham will debut the cloud-based version of Oracle Hospitality's flagship property management system at thousands of its full-service hotels worldwide, Skift has learned.
Wyndham is the first hotel chain to adopt Oracle's next-generation cloud-based version of its Opera property management system.
The move is significant for Oracle Hospitality. It aims to escape the gradual decline of its legacy product — an operating system that uses on-premise equipment — and emerge as a leader in cloud computing (which provides internet-based computing power and storage).
"We're approaching 1,000 hotels 'live' on this next-gen property management platform, Opera Cloud," said Alex Alt, general manager of Oracle Hospitality, which serves about 40,000 properties with all its property management systems. "When I started here roughly 18 months ago, that number was under 50."
Four and a half years ago, Wyndham moved to its first-generation hosted systems — meaning, moved away from havi
