Oracle Hospitality OPERA Cloud Property Management

Great PMS - highly recomeded

Vorteile:

I used Oracle PMS during a span of more than 10 years. At the very beginning of my career in hospitality I started off with one of the earliest versions of Opera, which at that time was already way ahead from its pears, at a time when not many software companies cared much about hospitality applications. It was simply way above anything else available and twice better than the close competitor. For a few years, having changed companies in between I've used several PMS system, however all were really bad and difficult to use. I remember Marriott still running their PMS, which was DOS based and worked by remembering all the codes, the mouse was an optional on the PC. Having returned to Europe and another chain, Opera - Oracle PMS was there. Simply, thanks God. Took me a day to get to learn the new functionalities and I was back into the game. The newcomers in my team were trained super fast as it is a very easy PMS to learn and implement. I remember the whole team going through training sessions in one of the hotels as were were changing PMS and everyone learned the system so quickly, even managed to train a guy covering a shift (coming from a different hotel without Opera) to use it in 2 hours and spend the whole evening shift alone, it went without problems. I just simply recomend Oracle PMS to everyone in the industry.

Nachteile:

Can't fault it, top of the line. Highly recommended to everyone.

Internet loss and the cloud-based system will seriously cause trouble for front desk workers.

Kommentare: In general, this cloud-based system is world class famous among hotels communities with convenient features. However its too depended on Internet and IT staffs. Its difficult for other departments when having trouble with IT staffs not available. One of my favorite functions when using this system is that I can export reports to delimited data such as HTML, XML and excel file then I can process the data to be more neat and submit reports to managers before Night Manager runs end-of-day function to advance all transactions to the next days.

Vorteile:

My role is a receptionist so the all cashier functions are very easy for me to record payments on the software and generate accurate reports such as currency exchange, swipe and record credit card number. The rooms assignment functions are very smart help me recognize instant available rooms for guest and check all room status. The interface is also user-friendly. There are also a button directing to a tutorial page for all departments of a hotel at after-login screen.

Nachteile:

Cloud-based system is too depended on Internet and IT departments. Once Internet loss incidents happen the front desk workers such as me will have trouble with customers such as cannot finding a room for guests or issuing payment invoice if they are in a hurry . All of my tasks depend on Opera software system and must completed quickly to obtain guest satisfaction. I don't know if there is offline version anywhere but at my working place we do not have.

Get's the job done!

Kommentare: I will say that my customer service experience has improved over time with Opera and there seems to be progress in the overall functioning of the company.

Vorteile:

This software is functionally able to track many aspects of your guests stays and report on trends based on an array of criteria. It won't let you erase something that will effect reporting/future reservations so that is a very helpful safeguard.

Nachteile:

Navigation can be a bit clunky from time to time and customer service is often difficult to get ahold of, or once you get ahold of them, they often have to escalate and then it takes days to rectify a situation.

Highly Recommended By Personal Experience

Kommentare: Overall Opera is Master of all other software. Nothing can be compare with it. From my personal experience I have no doubt on it.

Vorteile:

I am using Oracle PMS more than 4 years . Currently I am working as a Front Office Supervisor In a International Hotel Group. And i have never find any problem or difficulty on this. And also it make so easy and understandable for new joiner. Anyone can learn & understand easily. The interface is so user friendly. It always allow staff to create reports as per the requirement. As a Night Auditor I always had to create a lots of report for everyone and this software make these things so easy and also save times. This always help in payment process at check in & check out.

Nachteile:

No major issues with the system. Only sometime it automatically change the new reservation room type but if you know it very well then its easy. Overall its a great software which we always like to work with.

Oracle OPERA PMS Review: Great software for Hotels

Kommentare: I can create a new report. If I feel that the report is not good, I can come back to correct it at any time.
For example: I can create a report that extracts the client's email or telephone number.

Vorteile:

Centralized information - Easily to use for staff - Lots of options to get all the guests information in one place - Good for reports and statistics

Nachteile:

We can't use any browser, but only IE which is no longer supported. Will be great if we can use chrome of edge. Opera is an expensive software and if we can use it in mobile phones could be good.