Every day thousands of people careen through The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas with millions of dollars changing hands at gaming tables, in entertainment venues, for accommodations and at restaurants. If the computer systems that run The Venetian`s operations go down for even a few minutes, the hotel could lose millions of dollars.
Vision Solutions, the US subsidiary of JSE-listed IDION Technology Holdings, was recently selected to implement its award-winning Vision Suite at The Venetian.
The Venetian runs a 24x365 operation and cannot afford a moment of downtime. With Vision Suite, The Venetian can easily manage its massive amount of information and protect the millions of dollars that steadily flow through the casino each day.
Specifically, The Venetian uses Vision Suite to support its core functions including hotel operations, accounting, slot machines and the casino.
Vision Solutions` Vision Suite is the most recommended and widely deployed solutions for high availability, disaster recovery and continuous operations on the IBM iSeries (AS/400). Vision Suite makes systems 99.999% available against planned and unplanned downtime that translates into lost productivity and lost revenue.
"Vision Suite protects the vital information we use to run our business, in addition to being easy to backup and extremely secure," said Steve Vollmer, director of information technologies for The Venetian. Vollmer discussed the return on investment for The Venetian: "If the casino players database were lost, we would be out millions of dollars. Vision Suite protects that data and justifies the investment we made in the software."
After evaluating several other products, The Venetian decided the only product to trust with the demands of its operation was Vision Suite because of its reliability and functionality. In addition to the software, Vision Solutions offers the extensive customer care, support and education that a 24x365 operation like The Venetian demands.
According to Vision Solutions CEO Nicolaas Vlok, Las Vegas provides great opportunity for Vision Solutions because it demands around the clock availability. In fact, the Las Vegas Strip is home to numerous Vision Solutions customers.
"Information is only valuable if it is available. Vision Solutions is continuing to expand the possibilities of information availability management by developing new ways to empower our customers with great software that makes information available at any time, in any place and on any device. We are delighted to provide The Venetian with our leading-edge software to take the gamble out of information availability management."
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The Venetian boasts the world`s largest hotel and convention complex which includes 3 036 hotel suites (each standard suite measures approximately 700 square feet), the first all-suites hotel on Las Vegas Boulevard; approximately 120 000 square feet of gaming floor; approximately 500 000 square feet of retail space at The Grand Canal Shoppes; the luxurious 65 000 square-foot Canyon Ranch Spa Club; approximately 500 000 square feet of meeting space at The Venetian Congress Center; and a direct link to the approximately 1.2 million square foot Sands Expo and Convention Center.
Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions provides software to ensure that a company`s mission-critical data is always available, no matter what, and is the number one information availability vendor for the IBM eServer iSeries (AS/400).
The company serves customers in virtually every industry around the world, with 44% of Fortune 100 companies claiming Vision Solutions as their trusted partner, according to a recent study by Dun & Bradstreet.
Vision Solutions has sold 4 200 licences in 70 countries and boasts more than 1 600 customers.
Vision Solutions is an IBM (NYSE: IBM) Premier Business Partner and maintains strategic alliances with Microsoft, JD Edwards, Oracle, Informix, Midas-Kapiti, Compaq, Sybase, Baan, Aldon, Progress and Pentasafe. Vision Suite is the most recommended and widely deployed software solution for high availability, disaster recovery and continuous operations for the iSeries.
SYMBIATOR is a cross-platform software solution that helps enterprises share critical business information across different systems, networks and languages. Vision Solutions also provides extensive services, support and education to its customers through its CustomerCare Response Centers. Vision Solutions is a member of the IDION Group of companies. For more information on Vision Solutions, please visit the company`s Web site at www.visionsolutions.com.
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