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To hoteliers, mobile devices aren't just convenient and handy; they are useful as the gateway to a wide range of hotel functions. Such is the case with Interstate Hotels & Resorts, which recently moved its proprietary business intelligence platform IHR1 to a cloudbased solution that workers can access on their mobile devices or their desktops.
"Cloud adoption is really what allowed us to focus on developing these types of tools," said Jim Lamb, CIO at Interstate Hotels and Resorts. "We've migrated our entire business intelligence infrastructure to the cloud, which has allowed us to take advantage of our cloud partners' expertise in that infrastructure."
Allowing Interstate's cloud partner, NaviSite, to take over the computing infrastructure of Interstate's business intelligence platform both allowed that infrastructure to grow more easily and freed Interstate to focus on other things, Lamb said.
"It would have been impossible for us to have built that infrastructure on our own," he said. "The cost would have been prohibitive. But leveraging on that wave of technology surrounding the cloud makes...