Comparison of Maestro with Adaco ERP Vendor
The hospitality industry has competitively experienced a huge competitive edge across the globe day by day. Within the framework of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), the hospitality industry has several ERP vendors which provide different forms of software to provide a smooth operations of the industry’s activities.
First, Maestro ensures provision of a full spectrum of hospitality services and software in infrastructure management, which includes vendor management, help desk support, upgrades, virtualization and integrations/migrations. On the other hand, Adaco provides a globally leading operation and purchasing control solution for the hospitality industry.
The products offered by Adaco.NET encompass a range of services and products, including specific and customized hospitality software building as requested by customer, modern software development methodologies, familiarizing the experts and professionals with the hospitality ordering and processes, customized training to the match user needs and adoption capability (Martinho, 2013). The management of Adaco has been consistent innovators with a close working relationship with various hospitality leaders like Starwood, Loews, Marriott, Jumeirah, and Ritz Carlton. Whereas Maestro provides services and products covering technical consulting on system integration, software and hardware engineering, system analysis and design, provides a whole suite of quality assurance in support of the current and future needs of clients, data center management, computer operations, staffing solutions, IT governance, project and program management, and IT design, planning and implementation solutions.
Maestro offers a global delivery model in which it sets a platform for providing a scalable, reliable and cost-effective delivery of solutions and services. The model enables its customers to choose that sourcing strategy which best suits their business considerations, for instance, location proximity, cultural alignment, cost optimization, risk mitigation and language capabilities. On the other hand, Adaco offers comprehensive support, ranging from planning to rollout. It works closely with customers to provide practical answers to their questions and thus ensure that their customers experience smooth running of their operations.
ERP Applications
Maestro’s Technology Consulting Services Application
The Maestro’s Technology Consulting Services Application's website if found in the link http://www.maestro.com/solutions.
Purpose of the system
The Maestro’s consulting services application is aimed to provide accelerated execution path to their clients. This application of the Maestro’s consulting services helps the companies to reach their objectives on information technology efficiently, quickly and aligns to the budget. The organization keeps a team of highly trained experts with system database, administration, integration, and management experience in order to tailor the needs of clients in need with individuals who have a growing need of project, development or support environments. Acquiring the right information at the right time to the right people gives an edge over the aspects of hospitality industry’s competition (Martinho, 2013). This Maestro application ensures that it edges competition in favor of its clients through a well-linked partnership. Maestro becomes a partner who has a clear information on how to manage global processes of various businesses. When a business outsources with Maestro gives the business an opportunity to do what it does best. A business in search for solutions to business-critical challenges, Maestro provides the solution to such needs (Tesone, 2012).
The application focuses on helping bridge the strategy-execution gap through cost-effective, hands-on, industry-specific and highly mature consulting solutions. The Maestro consulting services application provides its clients with targeted solutions towards addressing key business challenges and ensures attainment of specific outcomes in speedy timeframes.
This Maestro system application user interface offers live spectral control and display of hardware and provides different “smart” analysis tools. The spectrum manipulation and display has a common “look and feel” with various ORTEC spectroscopy products, for example, Scintivision and GammaVision. Being a member of the ORTEC Connections suite of software products, the application has the ability to completely support up to 250 detector systems throughout a local area network. Thus, a remote detector featuring to a local operator is never different to one physically linked to the local PC work station.
Diagram
Source: Maestro database
The interface between the Maestro’s consulting services software and hardware is provided through a specific ORTEC Connections framework. The application’s layer encompasses all the communication protocols and hardware drivers which are necessary for software applications to control the Multichannel Buffer (MCB) instruments. Such hardware controls are accessible through MCB Property Pages which are integrated with Maestro and also other standard ORTEC applications.
The commonly applicable acquisition mode within the nuclear spectroscopy is the pulse height analysis (PHA) mode. Within this mode spectrum is gathered for a period, commonly known as the acquisition time, of an incoming pulse-height data. The data is stored in a histogram against pulse height. This spectrum is considered as the histogram of all the different events within the period of acquisition.
The list mode acquisition provides another dimension to the PHA mode. In the process of acquisition, every event is time tagged, for instance, its time of occurrence is recorded down along with its specific pulse height. On completion of the acquisition, the data is sorted, and the spectra are constructed to represent the measurement situation at some period of interest, for instance, the period at which the detection system experienced a transient of high activity (Wagner, Piccoli & Louthen, 2015).
Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
Maestro’s Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
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The Maestro Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) illustrates the relationships of the entity sets stored in its database. This context shows that an entity is a constituent of data. That is, the entity relationship diagrams illustrate the various steps within Maestro’s logical structure of databases.
The above set of ERD represents a chart which is a virtual representation of the relationship between the database entities. The chart of the ERD models the organization’s data storage requirement within a framework of three major components: attributes, entities and relationships (Martinho, 2013).
Job files can be run automatically if Maestro begins by incorporating the path to the job file in the form of a command-line argument provided in window shortcuts. The approach is commonly used in establishing consistent processes from a common initiation point and ensure provision of a simple method to manage multiple jobs in different instances of Maestro.
Best of Breed Application
Adaco.NET
The Adaco application provides a leading platform in the hospitality industry with respect to aspects of optimization, management and procurement. The web address linking the Adaco application is http://www.adaco.com/Support.aspx. The Adaco software creates an improvement on efficiency and eradicates labor-intensive paper and manual-based processes. The Adaco.NET has facilitated support of numerous regions across the globe, and the solutions provided by the company are used in different countries around the world.
Adaco has given its focus exclusively on the hospitality industry (Tesone, 2012). The global provider of SaaS-based procurement solutions provides hospitality products of procure-to-pay which enable the hoteliers to operate on an electronic integration platform with vendors, through a support of automated invoice management and catalog. The system further integrates with Adaco Analytics Solution to provide an overwhelmingly efficient hotelier operations.
Purpose of the system
Adaco.NET continues to accelerate on its functionality as the application provided in a cloud-based solutions facilitate the hospitality menu engineering, inventory, and procurement. The system further enables full integration of the operational and purchasing control system to accelerate the entire functioning of the various facets and links of the hospitality industry.
Adaco.NET is a popular IT solution to the hospitality industry, and with the extra functionality in Analytics and Procure-to-Pay, the customer return on investment has been enhanced to a greater scale. The application has facilitated innovation in Procure-to-Pay, which has in turn supported the automated ordering, catalog, invoice and messaging management (Borchgrevink, 2010). The analytics offers a return on investment from a highly improved compliance and vendor management besides reducing manual checking tasks and data management. The integration of the Adaco Analytics solution and Procure-to-Pay allows full visibility as it is required at the corporate and property level.
Adaco.NET and Procure-to-Pay come alongside Adaco Analytics data feed built in which is the basis on which meaningful data is presented in the key performance dashboards and indicator reports. As a result of the application, hoteliers are capable of customizing views and then distribute adequate information upon the request of different parties (Tesone, 2012). Additionally, product comparisons, compliance and full-spend analysis by vendors are some of the available views as a result of the Adaco.NET application.
Diagram
Source: Theterrytable images
The above diagram is an illustration of an input-output as provided by the Adaco software in an organizations marketing framework. The diagram provides a system in three major aspects of IT is looked into within the operations of an organization: Database management system files, inputs, and outputs.
Database management system files
The section covers the following information:
A physically described DBMS schemas, sets, records, and storage page size.
Estimation of the DBMS file volume and size of data, and data pages, which includes overhead resulting from free space and access methods.
A system of a refined logical model which provides normalized table layouts, logical design information, and entity relationship diagrams.
Access methods (for example via set, indexed, random access, sequential, and sorted pointer array.)
Definition of the update frequency of the database views, tables, records, areas, data pages, and sets; estimating the number of transactions in case the database is a system based on an online transactions.
Inputs
The section of inputs provides a description of the input media as used by the operation providing information to the system; showing a mapping of the high-level data flows in forms of optical character readers, data entry screens, and bar scanners (Tesone, 2012).
The section provides the layout of all the input data screens or the graphical user interface (GUTs) for instance windows. It further provides a graphical representation of each interface. In additional there is definition of all data elements in connection with each GUI or screen, or reference the data dictionary.
The input section contains edit criteria for the various data elements, which includes specific lengths, values, mandatory/optional, the range of values, and alphanumeric values. It also addresses the data entry controls in order to prevent edit bypassing.
Outputs
The section of output gives a description of the system output design in relation to the operator/user; showing a mapping to a high-level data flows. The system outputs entail query results, reports, GUIs and data display screens. This section should ensure that the following areas are provided whenever appropriate.
Description of screen contents and reports by providing a graphical representation of every layout and ensure description of all the data elements which are associated with the reference or layout of the data dictionary.
Identification of the names and codes for various reports and the data display screens (Borchgrevink, 2010).
Provide for any requirements on report distribution which includes frequencies for the periodic reports.
Gives the purpose of the output by incorporating the identification of the critical primary users.
Illustrates any form of security considerations and access restrictions.
Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)
The Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) for the Adaco.NET takes the form show in the diagram below.
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References
Borchgrevink, C. P. (2010). Perspectives on the hospitality industry: An introduction to hospitality management. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.
Martinho, R. (2013). Information systems and technologies for enhancing health and social care. Hershey, Pa.: IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA).
Tesone, D. (2012). Hospitality information systems and E-commerce. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
Wagner, E., Piccoli, G., & Louthen, S. (2015). Information system design. [Ithaca, N.Y.]: Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration, The Center for Hospitality Research.
