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Applications Committee Meeting Minutes
Meeting Minutes from HEDNA's Regional Meeting
2001 December, San Diego, CA
| Meeting Name: |
Applications Committee |
| Location: |
San Diego |
Chair: |
John Burns |
| Date: |
December 06, 2001 |
Co-Chair: |
Nesan Jegasothy |
Agenda - Action Items/Issues
| Item No. |
Subject |
High Level Summary/Issues |
| 1 |
Define "Application" |
Defined as "Products and services used by hotel industry
electronic distribution staff in the completion of their
duties". |
| 2 |
Define committee' s objectives |
Objectives agreed to be:
- To catalogue vendors and their products and thereafter to produce profiles available on/through hedna.org.
- To identify about five products or product types where HEDNA influence on their direction/design would be most beneficial to HEDNA members and thereafter establish channel of communication with those vendors.
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| 3 |
Discuss Product Profile |
Key elements were identified. Draft Profile and Draft Cover
letter will be prepared and circulated to members by John
Burns by December 17. |
| 4 |
Identify product/ service sectors |
Individual product/service sectors (and Sector Captains)
were identified:
Channel Management S/W (Tracey)
Commission Processing
(Sophie)
Content Management (Kathleen)
CRS . System
Vendors (Frederic)
CRS . Service Vendors (Frederic)
Data
Base Maintenance S/W (Ursula)
GDS Direct Access APIs
(Nesan)
Group Management S/W (Bernard)
Hospitality
Consultants (John)
Hospitality-oriented Web Site Developers
(Chris)
Hospitality-oriented Misc. Application Developers
(Chris)
Internet Booking Engines (Nesan)
Loyalty
Program/CRM Systems (Chris)
Marketing Services
(Tina)
PMS (Frederic)
Reporting Tools
(Tracey)
Revenue Management Systems (Chris)
RFP
Automation (Robin)
Switch Services (Steve)
Tour
Management S/W (Frederic)
Training Servics & Education
(Kathleen)
Wholesaler Management S/W (Tracey)
Wireless
Res Processing Tools/Services (Bernard) |
| 5 |
dentify vendors in each product/service sector |
- Committee members volunteered as
Sector Captains (identified above). Each Sector Captain will
prepare a list of vendors in their sector. Preliminary lists
due 01/15/02.
- Lists will be sent to, and consolidated by, John Burns.
Consolidated lists will be re-circulated to members for
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| 6 |
Ask vendors to complete Product Profiles |
Sector Captain (with assistance from other members) will
contact vendors in this sector and ask them to complete a
Product Profile for each of their Electronic
Distribution-related products.
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| 7 |
Profiles will be compiles in a central data base |
Judy Burns to check with DISA for information on data base
options available in/through hedna.org. Frederic Lalonde
offered to assist in data base population.
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Items/Issues
| No. |
OpenDate |
Description |
Resolution |
Assigned To |
Target Date |
| 1 |
12/06/01 |
Identify vendors serving each product/service sector; list
to be e-mailed to John Burns for consolidation |
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Sector Captain |
01/15 |
| 2 |
12/06/01 |
Distribute draft Product Profile and cover letter to members for comments |
|
John Burns |
12/17 |
| 3 |
12/06/01 |
Members to review/expand first draft of vendor list |
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All mem-bers |
02/15 |
| 4 |
12/06/01 |
sSector captains to send blank Product Profiles to vendors
requesting their completion |
|
Sector Captain |
05/01 |
| 5 |
12/06/01 |
Product Profiles to be aggregated and made accessible via hedna.org |
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05/15 |
Attendees (C=Conference Call Attendee, A=Attended In-Person)
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Attendees |
Company Name |
EMail |
| A |
Barbieri, Stephen |
WestCoast Hospitality Corp. |
Stephen.barbieri@westcoasthotels.com |
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Black, Tina |
Kimpton Group |
Tina.black@kimptongroup.com |
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Bolding, Chris |
Pegasus Solutions |
Chris.bolding@pegs.com |
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Burns, John . Captain |
Hospitality Technology Consulting |
John@burns-htc.com |
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Burns, Judy |
Hospitality Technology Consulting |
Judy@burns-htc.com |
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Cullen, Kathleen - BoD Liason |
Raffles International |
Kathleen.cullen@raffles.com |
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Ellis, Bernard |
SynXis Corporation |
Bellis@synxis.com |
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Horner, Cheryl |
Pegasus Solutions |
Cheryl.horner@pegs.com |
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Jegasothy, Nesan . Co-captain |
SITA Advanced Travel Solutions |
Nesan.jegasothy@sita.int |
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Lalonde, Frederic |
NewTrade Technologies |
Flalonde@newtradetech.com |
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McCollum, Toni |
Worldspan |
Toni.mccullum@worldspan.com |
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Moss, Tracey |
Worldres.com |
Tmoss@worldres.com |
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Peper, Jennifer |
Lodging Logistics |
Jennifer@lodginglogistics.com |
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Pommois, Sophie |
Net Trans Services |
Sophie.pommois@ntrans.com |
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Pritchard-Scheub, Robin |
Choice Hotels |
Robin_pritchard@choicehotels.com |
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Rhode, Ursula |
Lexington Services |
Urhode@lexres.com |
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Wilson, Lee |
Innosys Inc. |
Lee@innosys.com |
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