Business intelligence platform provider Actabl has received a U.S. patent for its method of normalizing enterprise hotel data from multiple technology systems.
According to the company, the patented process is designed to standardize raw hotel data from disparate systems including property management systems, point-of-sale platforms, labor management software, OTA feed and accounting systems to create a unified data structure across hotel portfolios.
Actabl noted the patented technology was developed over more than a decade by members of its engineering and product teams, including Clark Brayton, Justin Call, Mike Fatal, Kathryn Green and Pritesh Patel. The company said its normalization framework currently supports more than 400 active integrations across hotel technology platforms.
“The challenge was never just connecting systems,” Fatal, senior data engineer, said in a statement. “It was making sure the data those systems produced actually meant the same thing when you brought it all together. Two clients can use the same label for an account and be tracking completely different things. What we built makes it possible to know, confidently, that the numbers you're looking at are genuinely comparable—not just consolidated.”
“The chart of accounts is the backbone of how Actabl’s business intelligence software works,” added Green, senior technical product manager and a named inventor on the patent.
The company said its technology uses natural language processing to interpret incoming data fields and map them to a standardized taxonomy designed for hotel operations and financial reporting. The patent also includes a machine learning component trained on the company’s historical hospitality data mapping processes.