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| With the 2010 soccer world cup just around the corner and the
hospitality industry gearing up for what is going to be one its
greatest windfalls ever, South African e-solutions provider
Exponªnt have launched a software package that will ensure that
tourists and golfers in particular get a world-class experience
every time they visit a golf estate or five star resort.
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| Exponªnt COO Leon Truter, said the package known as IPALS, had
shown its mettle in some of the most demanding tourists
destinations including Dubai and a number of 5-star hotels in the
Gulf and Malaysia (where Ipals was developed).
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| We were extremely pleased that we were selected by the owners of
the suite to represent them in South Africa and we are confident
that it is going to turn the management of golfing estates and
other hospitality centres upside down and turn them into the
world-class tourist destinations that both foreign and local
tourists demand.
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| John Downer who heads up the hospitality sector at Exponªnt said
there had been intense interest from the local market and pretty
much everybody who had seen it demonstrated wanted to buy it.
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| "The biggest single advantage is that every single aspect of the
estate or resort is run by a single computer system. The points of
sale at the pro shop are linked directly to the server as are
terminals in the spa, the on-site stores as well as the several
bars and restaurants that may be spread over a wide area.
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| "In addition, the entire package was developed to work in a
wireless environment so there is absolutely no need to start
stringing new network cable."
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| The cherry on top is that visitors can walk around and enjoy the
resort's facilities without a credit card or a cheque book on them,
Downer said.
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| "When guests arrive, their fingerprints are taken electronically
and every time they want to make a purchase be it a new golf club
at the proshop or a drink at the bar, all they have to do is
provide the attendant with their finger print and the deal is done.
It turns the resort into a totally cashless community," Downer
said.
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| The system has been fully customised for South African tax and
labour law and has such a user-friendly interface that a minimum
amount of training is required to get the resort staff up and
running.
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| In order to get their foot in the door into what Downer said was
rapidly becoming a very competitive field, Exponªnt had decided to
make either the entire system with all of its modules available on
a leased basis or a client could lease or buy only the modules they
immediately required and add on modules as they went along.
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| In order to get their foot in the door into what Downer said was
rapidly becoming a very competitive field, Exponªnt had decided to
make either the entire system with all of its modules available on
a leased basis or a client could lease or buy only the modules they
immediately required and add on modules as they went along.
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| For more information, please contact Leon Truter of Exponªnt on
012 663 0100 or on his cell 082 654 1152 or John Downer on 084 842
9629
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