FCS Hospitality Operations Management vs. Oracle Hospitality - MICROS POS

It is appropriate for running a hotel and using it to maintain pertinent information needed across the board for customers, requests, tracking trends and revenue.

Incentivized

In my experience, there has not been a resolution on outstanding tickets opened two years ago during the initial implementation. Simple things like time reporting, creating buttons, and marking items as "unavailable" have issues. The system has a lag when servers log out of checks that prevents them from opening the checks on another terminal without a wait that feels like an eternity in the restaurant industry and with direct impact to the guest. Good luck calling support. Most of my experience involves the person I spoke with having no idea how to fix my issue and having to "escalate the ticket." This escalation process will last weeks, months, and in our case, years with no resolution.

• Tracking pertinent cusomter information.
• Providing a one stop solution to handling multiple needs for the hotel.
• Storing and computing data needed to monitor revenue and trends etc.
• Providing multiple solution for services such as housekeeping, communication among depts, and concierge.

Incentivized

• Real time sales
• Real time labor costs
• Integration with account software

Incentivized

• Room for improvement would be that at times the system runs a little slower than we would like it to. When you are busy you need things to be at its best especially when creating a seamless experience for your guests.
• Keeping up to date with the ever growing software and adding a few more perks or enhancements.
• Shortening the time it takes to fix glitches in the system.

Incentivized

• Support is awful. Oracle does not directly support end-users and depends on resellers to offer support. So if there is a bug or breaking change, we have to jump through hoops to get something fixed.
• Does not play well with other software or interfaces. There are interfaces but they lack a serious amount of features that are crucial to our business.
• The guest facing hardware does not hold up to constant use very well.
• The backend hardware is lacking in PCI compliance and is not meant for enterprise use.
• The software itself looks as if it is stuck in the early 2000s and there has been no sign of an update in many years.
• Reporting is difficult to set up and use and you have to rely on third-party reporting to get decent usable reports.

Incentivized

The program is amazing and there wouldn't be a reason not to continue. Go with what works, and this works.

Incentivized

The system is really easy to use and to implement into your business. Training for the software is fairly easy which is important for new hires and so forth. When you think about any company which provides services in numerous ways, you really want a program that can be seamless throughout the department's and this software does just that.

Incentivized

We've stayed with MICROS mainly due to that's how we've always operated and to switch operating POS systems would be a HUGE learning curve for everyone involved.

Incentivized

• So far it has been an overall positive experience. It is easy to use, easy to train employees, and easy to implement into your business.
• It is very beneficial for tracking analytics and running much needed data to watch for trends.
• You can literally track everything down: hospitality needs, bedding costs, shipments, etc.

Incentivized

• Micros has allowed us to leverage our margin by using our own credit processor and loyalty program. We've seen success from both of these platforms (not Micros) and have been able to save money on the extra costs of using Micros.

Incentivized