The Peninsula Dumps Oracle to Use Shiji's New Tech Platform for Hotel Groups
Skift Take
It seemed like Shiji's recent acquisition spree would lead to it compete one day directly with Oracle, Amadeus, Sabre, and others. That day has come.
The Peninsula Hotels has agreed to move its core operational systems to a new platform built by Shiji.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH Group) owns the five-star luxury hotel group, which will replace its property management system built by Oracle Hospitality and its central reservation system with a new enterprise platform from Shiji, which made the announcement Sunday in Beijing. The Peninsula Beijing will be the first to switch.
Shiji has had its new enterprise platform in pilot testing with three unnamed European hotel groups for the better part of a year, the Beijing-based tech company said. But the Peninsula is the first global hotel chain to adopt it, and this is the first formal word of the system's existence.
The news comes as many other global hotel groups are rethinking their hotel stacks. Accor hired Sabre earlier this year to move from an in-house property management system and central reservation system to one Sabre will build in a cloud-native platform. InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) switched over last year to a new central reservation system built by Amadeus.
The property management system is a room-based database used for on-site operations such as checking guests in and out. For context, subscribers to Skift Research can read The Hotel Property Management Systems
