Marketboomer News

ANZPHIC 2010 in Sydney - 'Back on Track'

Only 2 days to go!
Come and visit our stand at the ANZPHIC 2010 - Back on Track

Marketboomer Australia is a proud gold sponsor of the ANZPHIC conference, held at the Hilton Sydney from 7th-9th July

Discuss with us and over 400 owners, investors, developers, operators, lenders, advisers and other stakeholders the issues, challenges and strategies for getting the hotel industry Back on Track in 2010.

Listen to presentations from international and local industry experts and share your experiences throughout the day. Don't miss this great opportunity to build and reinforce your network.

We hope to see you at our stand!

Please refer to the ANZPHIC webpage for updates and registration: www.anzphic.com.au/

You've got a minute?

...then check out one of our new 1 minute training videos. Marketboomer has created training videos for you and your team. They are only 1 minute long and cover 15 topics of the Marketboomer application.

The video portal is available on youtube and will be added with more topics soon. Take a look at the videos and learn new things or refresh your memory on certain topics.

We would love to hear your feedback and suggestions, so please let us know your thoughts to make this training portal even better in the future.
Please send your feedback and ideas to events@marketboomer.com.

Basket Price Movement

Create a Price Movement Graph for your account within seconds. See how prices for each category change over your specified time period.

A new Marketboomer report has been released today, that allows you to create a Price Movement Graph for a selected Category.

See how your prices are fluctuating over time and indentify which products have changed prices the most.

In order to use the Basket Price Movement Graph for your account, follow the 4 steps below:

1. Enable the 'Pricing - Basket Analysis Report' for your user account.
2. Run the report for a timeframe of several months and save to your local hard drive.
3. Download the 'Marketboomer Excel Toolbar' and add it to your Excel.
4. Start the report from the newly added toolbar and select your preferences to run the report.

Your graph is created within seconds with all supporting data attached in the same file!
Please review our 'How to' guide for more detailed instructions or call customer success on t: 1300 666 044 (Australia) if you have any questions.

Click here to download the "How to" guide.

Welcome to 2010!

I hope that you are looking forward to a year where the trend lines on your charts head in the right direction all year.

For the team at Marketboomer, 2009 saw some big changes which gear us up for an exciting year. Our International and Australian businesses merged giving us a much larger pool of resources to build a better service to all our customers globally. Where we have a competitive advantage or base of expertise in our global team, we are now far more able to share and adopt best practices across our business in a meaningful way.  This includes sharing learning’s and best practice from and with our customers, wherever they may be.

Marketboomer now has a presence or resources in Australia, China, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, South Africa, UAE, UK and Ireland. Additionally we have customers in New Zealand, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia.

In late November 2009 we also announced that we had closed a deal that projected us onto the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). We were formally acquired by Webspy Limited.  Feel free to follow our share price (ASX code: WSY). Marketboomer makes up over two thirds of the companies group revenue and the original deal valued us at 80% of the company. Since doing the deal the share price has risen from around 1 cent to over 3 cents per share; however we are focused on a long term growth strategy rather than quick financial wins.

This deal will have a positive operational impact on our customers as we are now investing heavily in ramping up our capability and capacity. We will effectively double our Product Development team to provide a more robust service. We will also supplement it with new functionality that our customers require to make their businesses run more effectively and profitably. Our Customer Support teams will be subtly restructured to provide a better service, including using specialised global teams to deliver certain services like catalogue and reporting services. The friendly voices and faces you are used to seeing here in Australia and New Zealand will all still be around so don’t worry!

I mentioned sharing best practice. Our goal is to deliver great products and services that maximise this for all our customers and share alternative processes that may provide you with a better alternative. Where you believe we can improve, we will be implementing measures that will better collect this to shape our product roadmap. We will be providing a method for more formal feedback in the near future but in the mean time feel free to email any ideas to me at nathan.gyaneshwar@marketboomer.com or call me direct on 02 8456 0556.

Measuring your business is also important so that you can see where you need to make improvements to reduce waste or increase quality and profit. I would be very interested to hear any feedback on how we may help with data, reports or information that you think we could provide that would help you better measure how you are doing.

May 2010 be a year of happiness and prosperity for you and your family.

With your success in mind,
 
Nathan Gyaneshwar

6 new hotels on Marketboomer

Marketboomer would like to welcome six new properties to the Community. The new hotels are located in VIC, SA and NSW. 

- Citigate Mount Panorama Bathurst Hotel (Mirvac Hotels & Resorts)
- The Sebel Deep Blue Warrnambool (Mirvac Hotels & Resorts)
- The Grand Hotel Melbourne (Erdi Group)
- Urban St Kilda (Erdi Group)
- Four Points Geelong (Erdi Group)
- InterContinental Adelaide (IHG)

If you would like to know more about how to trade with these hotels please visit the following websites:
Mirvac's Supplier Info Website
IHG's Supplier Info Website
or call customer support on 1300 666 044.

Urban Hotels - Stylish Aussie pads break the mould of typical travel

A trio of Australian hotels proves there’s no match for designer style, as it takes the ambitious step to become completely independent.

Urban Hotels, which boasts a portfolio of three elegant properties in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, broke away from tourism giant Accor on 30 June to establish itself as an exclusive stand-alone hotel group.

Owned and operated by businessman Les Erdi, Urban Hotel Group was formed in 2007 and comprises of Urban St Leonards on Sydney’s North Shore, Urban Brisbane on Wickham Terrace, and Urban St Kilda on Fitzroy Street. The chic properties draw a young, professional crowd, who are swayed by location – being in the coolest neighbourhoods – and the little touches that are truly unique.

Decadent delights satisfy the senses at each location – from the independent restaurants serving edgy Australian cuisine, the hip cocktail bars providing the perfect post-trip hang-outs, and Apple internet access throughout the properties, down to the subtle sounds wafting from Bang & Olufsen sound systems and the gentle scent of Urban’s signature lavender.

This is a brand that prides itself on providing ultra-chic designer havens, intimate atmospheres, with personal service and extreme attention to detail.

“Punch-out” coming into its own with MB Suppliers

A Punch-out Introduction:

Punch-out transactions started occurring in 1997 and enable buyers to select items from a supplier’s online catalogue through Marketboomer. Supplier’s catalogues which are setup for this buying process are known as a Punch-Out catalogue.

A buyer can technically use Marketboomer to maintain a connection to their supplier’s system to source and pick products. The relevant information about the transaction can then be passed directly to Marketboomer while being held at the supplier side until the necessary order approval work flow takes place.

Benefits and features include:

a) Single Access to Multiple Systems;
b) View Suppliers images, specifications and content.

“A number of supplier systems already support this protocol including popular Marketboomer suppliers such as Bidvest, Corporate Express, New Creation Print, OfficeMax and Paper & Print Direct.”

July Breaks New Order Record: 28,105 POs in Australia

With an increase of 1,300 POs above the last record, Marketboomer is experiencing a positive trend for online ordering.

Despite the tough economic situation businesses need to continue purchasing goods. However the way they are ordering has changed over the last 12 months.

 

Firstly, we have experienced an increase in control mechanisms which ensures that only necessary goods are purchased after they have been signed of by the responsible authorities.
The second major trend is bundling procurement through one single platform to avoid maverick purchasing and maintain control at the same time.

Suppliers that are already connected to Marketboomer have an advantage as their way of receiving orders hasn’t changed. They will continue to get POs in the familiar and standardised way.

If you would like to know more about control mechanisms and OpenPO in Marketboomer, please call us on 1300 666 044.

IHG Indonesia

Marketboomer launches a new branch in Indonesia

Yet a new branch has been added to the Marketboomer Global Network.

InterContinental Hotel Group is the first customer in Indonesia to place orders on Marketboomer. Their first hotel that went LIVE was The Holiday Inn Resort Baruna Bali which is located at the southern tip of the island and right in front of a white sandy beach. This newly opened hotel comprises of 195 guest rooms, a Tea Tree Spa and beachside restaurants.

The hotel will be using all Marketboomer functionalities, such as Inventory, Invoicing, Recipe Costing, Workflow and OpenPO to ensure full compliance from the start.

Welcome to the Marketboomer Family.

Marketboomer International Wins ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the TECOM Investments Pearl Awards

Marketboomer, the hospitality eProcurement specialist, is delighted to announce that it is the winner of the ‘Innovation of the Year’ award at the recent TECOM Investments Pearl Awards in Dubai.

These awards are designed to recognise new benchmarks in operational excellence and foster a culture of industry best practices within TECOM’s knowledge clusters, simultaneously contributing to Dubai's status as a leading knowledge-based economy. Marketboomer’s Managing Director, Declan Monahan, says, “This award is a tribute to hospitality companies in the UAE who were among the first in the world to embrace our technology to buy better and reduce costs. At the same time, we have provided a platform which gives suppliers access to a much larger marketplace resulting in a win/win for everyone.”
Since setting up in Dubai Internet City in 2004, Marketboomer’s technology has been adopted by leading UAE companies including Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Hotels & Resorts.

From left to right: Michelle Caimol-Patron, Lani Guarin, Miroslaw Lapinski, Jani Rossouw, Sylvia Bird, Declan Monahan (Managing Director), Candice Atkinson, Chris Webb (Director of Operations)