PassportScan Ltd: A Case Study of How Cloud Computing Enhances Innovation

PassportScan Ltd is a UK-based company that provides hotel applications and solutions for its clients. PassportScan Ltd adopted cloud computing to eliminate on-site IT structures as it strives to improve the quality of the services it offers to its clients. Some of the benefits the UK Company derived from its adoption of cloud technology are briefly highlighted in this article. PassportScan Ltd’s operational effectiveness increases as a result of moving all its operational activities to the cloud. In other words, the Company is able to perform faster and more precisely in attending to its many clients’ requirements. Hotels require swift data management, which entails that guests’ checking-in and checking-out information are properly and speedily processed in order to achieve a high level of efficiency. This is what exactly PassportScan was able to do within a short period of time. These improved services help the company’s clients to flexibly and speedily monitor the rate of room occupancy in real-time. Most especially, large hotels need management solutions or applications that will enable their staff to know, at each particular period, the room occupancy rate so as to know which room needs to be filled up with another guest. Hence, with cloud computing, PassportScan is able to provide this unique service to its many clients. One of the main advantages PassportScan derived from using cloud computing was in the cutting of its recurrent expenditures. The company now saves money while running its operations entirely in the cloud: it means that expenses that will have been spent on physical IT structure, technical support and programming activities can now be re-directed to another section of the Company’s business operations for better utilization. With the help of cloud computing, PassportScan UK is able to make higher projection for revenues and increased profitability. Apart from saving on its recurrent expenses, the Company is able to innovate, expand and diversify into other business interests simply because its main IT infrastructure has been made flexible, scalable and more efficient through cloud technology. Subsequently, PassportScan’s profits have reportedly soared since its adoption of cloud computing, and the Company hopes to see more profitability in the future. Much of the innovations PassportScan gains from utilizing cloud technology come in the form of developing new business opportunities. Previously, many of PassportScan’s clients were large hotels. However, the scalability and flexibility features afforded by cloud computing allow the Company to take up small and medium-sized hotels that require its hotel management solutions/applications. Invariably, PassportScan expands its businesses as well as increasing its profitability due to its usage of cloud computing. And most of the small and medium-sized hotels that employ the Company’s solutions/applications eventually get the chance to motivate their staff performance and enhance productivity in the area of increasing the level of room occupancy. Before this time, a lot of small and medium-sized hotels did not have the solutions for monitoring, in real-time, the rate of checking-in and checking-out of their guests. Hence, this practice lowers the rate of occupying those empty hotel rooms. PassportScan demonstrates, inarguably, that cloud computing works in every area of human endeavor, including travels and transportation. As shown in this case, cloud technology does not only increase the overall performance of a business, it also enhances innovations that can be instrumental in obtaining more revenues and consequently lead to higher profitability. In essence, cloud computing maintains a culture of low expenditure through the elimination of heavily expensive in-house IT infrastructure. It also brings about functional and flexible IT system that can be scaled up or down based on the amount of requirements at a particular period in time. This flexibility characteristic is what makes cloud computing endearing to small and medium-sized enterprises—which are the backbone of economic development in any country.

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Our articles are written to provide you with tools and information to meet your IT and cloud solution needs. Join us on Facebook and Twitter.   About the Guest Author: Jerry Olasakinju, a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree holder, is a passionate researcher and writer whose interest in everything computing is unparalleled. He blogs about his literary works at http://jerryolasakinju.blogspot.jp/