Timeshare software technology leader SPI Software is pleased to announce its suite of software specifically designed for timeshare resorts has been selected for installation by Anantara Vacation Club Pte Ltd, a newly developed, points-based vacation club offering resort destinations in Thailand.

“SPI’s Orange 7 suite of software is fully scalable to provide Anantara Vacation Club with the ability to handle a virtually unlimited number of users, resorts and clients,” observed SPI VP of Sales Matt Brosious. “Orange 7 is particularly attuned to providing the functionality a vacation club needs, such as the ability to accept multiple currencies, handle all facets of a points program and provide consumers with self-service Internet access.”

Assisting in the development of Anantara Vacation Club is International Resort Development Services Inc. (IRDS). IRDS was formed by Harold Derrah in 1995 to provide consulting services to major tourism operators.

Source:-http://www.hotelinteractive.com/article.aspx?articleid=19506

Caliente Resorts – clothing-optional luxury resorts offering vacations through a points-based club, along with hotel accommodations and whole ownership availability – recently purchased the vacation ownership industry’s leading software by SPI Software.

“We’re anticipating adding a number of locations,” says Caliente COO Steve Dorsey. “Right now we have facilities in Tampa and the Dominican Republic, but we’ll be expanding beginning later in the year. That’s why we needed software like SPI’s. We compared it with other timeshare- and resort-oriented software products, but none were built using current technology that would support adding multiple types of functionality, usage and ownership like SPI.”

Says SPI VP of Sales Matt Brosious, “Caliente Resorts’ team has already been trained and is using our Sales and Marketing module. We will soon be phasing in our centralized reservations, maintenance fee billing and collections and front desk management modules.”

Source:http://hospitality-1st.com/PressNews/SPI-083110.html

SPI Software, announced their vice-president of sales, Matt Brosious (pictured), will participate as a speaker at the August 29-31, 2010 VOASA conference being held in Durban, South Africa. Brosious is scheduled to speak on the subject of, “Positioning Your Brand and Social Media,” beginning at 8:15 a.m. on the 31st.

Brosious will be sharing his experience gathered while consulting with clients involved in timeshare and vacation or shared ownership. He has worked with a number of sizeable resort developers, as well as smaller entrepreneurial companies, to demonstrate how efficient, advanced technology can help save money.

Focusing on vacation ownership industry-related issues, this will be the second conference to be hosted by Vacation Ownership Association of Southern Africa (VOASA),with Interval International as the Naming Sponsor. The conference hotel is the Southern Sun Elangeni, situated on Durban’s North Beach, over-looking Durban’s Golden Mile and the Indian Ocean.

Source:http://hospitality-1st.com/PressNews/SPI-082610.html

PI, the African distributor for utility software products and services to the open systems segment of the IT industry, today announced that printing associated with student registration at the University of Johannesburg this year was a huge success.
“Student registration is always a stressful time for any educational establishment,” commented Tinus van Zyl of the University of Johannesburg. “Although the registration itself is handled by our ITS system, the printing requirement from this or any other system can often turn out to be a nightmare.”

“We recently upgraded our printing system to COSprint, which was supplied via SPI, and this year’s registration printing was the first real test for this new software,” added Van Zyl. “The software investment that we made has more than been justified in that this was our smoothest year ever from a printing perspective, and didn’t, for instance, utilise any of the support that SPI had organised for us to handle any issues should they arise.”
COSprint is an advanced output management and print spooling package used by enterprises with an IT infrastructure incorporating UNIX and/or Linux servers, and has a significant base of users in South Africa.

Source:http://www.itweb.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31486:student-registration-printing-a-huge-success-thanks-to-software-supplied-by-spi&catid=349:industrysolutions