Rostock May
2007

Alexander Winter CFO and Board member of Arkona AG talks about the collaboration with Programming-Pool Romania

  "As any CFO knows and appreciates, in order to manage a group of companies efficiently one thing is essential: to have all financial information at your fingertips all the time.

Managing a very diverse enterprise, the Arkona Group with its subsidiary A-ROSA Resort GmbH, comprises of the A-Rosa Resorts, the Arkona Hotel Chain (of which 5 Hotels are under a Steigenberger Franchise agreement) and to top it off a subsidiary with River Cruise vessels.

All possible parameters are different, from the Property Management Systems, Protel and Fidelio Vs.6 and Vs.8, on the one hand to the accounting systems on the other (The chain uses Filosof and ISF/ISC). The reporting has to follow three different accounting standards: Uniform Systems of Accounts for the lodging industry, UK GAAP and German HGB. A multitude of sub-systems, different countries; everything that could be different is different.

We spent three months looking at the market leaders for management information systems, first the top 20 and then a short list of 6. Unfortunately we came to the conclusion that everything was a compromise, all our initial goals were not even 50% achievable.

By chance one of our Resort Directors had very good experience with a Romanian Software Development Company. The first meeting was strange, everything we asked was possible, exactly what we wanted, this was new.

The whole project ran extremely smoothly and we now have a state of the Art Management Information System connected to various Sub-Systems doing what we had envisaged. It's the first Management Information System of this complexity for the Hotel Industry and we are proud that we have been involved in creating this groundbreaking new web application."


About Programming-Pool:

  Programming-Pool is a software development company, specialised in the Hotel & Corporate Hospitality Industries, real time data analysis software, as well as web content management software.
Programming-Pool is an international company including members from: Austria, England, Holland, Hungary, Germany and Romania. We solve everything the largest Software companies in these fields are either unable or unwilling to solve, due to their size or their lack of flexibility.

Contact Programming-Pool:
Adriaan Kleingeld
Tel: +40 (0)362 - 401109
email: adriaan@programming-pool.com

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