- tion from premise-based PBX’s.
BroadSoft has announced a new, hosted unified communications (UC) offering for the hospitality industry, UC-One Hospitality, based on the acquisition of Systems Design & Development (SDD).
SDD is a software and services provider to hotels, resorts, convention and meeting facilities, extended stay, and fractional ownership properties.
As in other verticals, businesses throughout the hospitality industry are looking to cloud-provided communications services to replace their aging PBX solutions and align with their corporate IT cloud migration strategies.
“Many of the hospitality premise-based PBX solutions are reaching their end-of-life, creating a need for the industry to seek new innovative communication alternatives that better align with their integrated guest services strategies,” said Michael Tessler, CEO at BroadSoft. “We believe the services capabilities of SDD, when integrated with our unified communications services, will unlock a sizable new vertical market opportunity for our service provider customers.”
UC-One Hospitality integrates BroadSoft’s UC and SDD’s Jazz Fusion capabilities; hospitality properties to create customized communications services using dynamically targeted pricing, packaging, service authentication and digital content presentations. Channel partners and providers can thus deliver a bundled offering (including connectivity, minutes, unified communications and property management system data integration).
“Service providers can also eliminate the capital investment, special knowledge and operational standards required to support diverse and changing collections of hospitality enterprise systems, hotel on-premise systems and their necessary proprietary integrations and certifications,” the company noted.
The SDD acquisition is expected to contribute over $1 million in revenue in 2014 and be dilutive to 2014 non-GAAP earnings per share by approximately $0.01 to $0.02.
