BroadSoft targets hospitality industry with SDD acquisition

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	BroadSoft targets hospitality industry with SDD acquisition BroadSoft recently announced a new, hosted Unified Communications offering for the hospitality industry, UC-One Hospitality. The offer is enabled by BroadSoft’s acquisition of Systems Design & Development, Inc. (SDD), a software and services provider. SDD already serves large global hotels, resorts, convention and meeting facilities, extended stay, and fractional ownership properties. Broadsoft is offering the solution to service providers who are targeting the hospitality industry with cloud-based communications services. 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