Property Management

I spent three weeks building a fake Oracle Opera integration not to ship it, but to understand it. Here's what the HTNG specification doesn't tell you, why reservation sync is harder than it looks, and what the experience taught me about where hospitality tech is genuinely difficult versus where it just hasn't been modernized yet.

Opera and Protel still dominate enterprise hospitality. But Mews, Apaleo, and Cloudbeds are winning in specific segments. I mapped where the market is genuinely open.

Oracle won't give you a dev sandbox without a partner agreement. Here's how I've been studying PMS integration patterns without one.