Anasazi Purchases Insi Property Management System Software.PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1997--Anasazi has announced that it has reached an agreement with Insi Corp. to purchase the source code for its property management system software. The Insi agreement gives Anasazi full and equal ownership rights in the Insi software. Anasazi entered the PMS (Pantone Matching System) A color matching system that has a unique number assigned to more than 500 different colors and shades. This standard for the printing industry has been built into many graphics and desktop publishing programs to ensure color accuracy. business in 1995 by signing an agreement under which it acquired certain license rights from Insi with respect to its emerging SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. PMS software, including the source code. Since signing the original agreement with Insi, Anasazi and Insi have jointly driven the development effort of the product. Over the last 12 months Anasazi's management and development investment have enhanced the system's functionality and tightly interfaced it to the Anasazi Central Reservation central reservation Noun Brit & NZ the strip that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway central reservation n (BRIT) (AUT) → mediana System (CRS CRS Course CRS Certified Residential Specialist (real estate certification) CRS Central Reservation System CRS Can't Remember Stuff (polite form) CRS Cost Reduction Strategy CRS Consumer Relations Specialist ). "Our GuestView(SM) product now meets the functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. of the entire hotel market, from limited service through full service," said Bonnie Ligouri, vice-president, Property Management Systems business, Anasazi Inc. In addition to ownership rights, Anasazi has maintained certain exclusive marketing rights to customers using its CRS including Anasazi Travel Resource's private label and representation service customers. Anasazi's initial sales strategy was focused on existing CRS license and service customers. Since that time, the market opportunities have opened beyond existing customers. Anasazi is very pleased to have Starwood Hotels, Marriott Hotels International, Carlson Hospitality, HFS (Hierarchical File System) The file system used in the Macintosh. The first version, known as "Mac OS Standard," was introduced in 1985. HFS+, an enhanced version, came out in 1998 in preparation for the upcoming Mac OS X operating system. Inc., Camberley Hotels, and several other recognized hotel groups as customers of their GuestView product. Anasazi Inc., based in Phoenix, is a leading supplier of information technology based solutions to the global hospitality industry. Almost one-third of worldwide hotel rooms are represented by customers who use Anasazi's Central Reservation System (CRS) which is the basis for the Anasazi Lodging Enterprise System Architecture (ALESA ALESA American League for Exports & Security Assistance ). ALESA is a suite of complementary products which, when integrated, provides the industry's first end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. for the hotel industry. Anasazi Travel Resources Inc., Anasazi's worldwide representation division, provides sales, marketing, and reservation services to over 1,000 hotels in more than 50 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit the Anasazi web site at http://www.anasazi.com . CONTACT: Anasazi Inc., Phoenix Ann Damiano, 602/906-7557 Fax: 602/861-7687 e-mail: adamiano@anasazi.com |
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