Casino Data Imaging Enters into Strategic Partnership with Boyd Gaming Corp.

Business Editors

NIGA 

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2004

Las Vegas-based Casino Data Imaging (CDI), the No. 1 provider of data visualization and report writing solutions to the gaming industry, today announced it has entered into a strategic partnership with Boyd Gaming Corp. (NYSE:BYD), one of the leading gaming entertainment companies in North America. This partnership will result in the additional sales of CDI's advanced analysis interface program, CasinoCAD(C), to all Boyd casinos.

Boyd Gaming is the latest in a growing list of world-class gaming corporations that are leveraging the power and flexibility of CDI's CasinoCAD(C) analysis interface network. CasinoCAD(C)v4.3 interface imports, standardizes, and reports information supplied by different online data collection systems through point-and-click report generating, color-coding, data mining and data drilldown techniques. The program allows casino management to quickly generate and share CAD analysis, financial report analysis, floor profiles, and group/query analysis via snapshots, print, plot and e-mail features. CDI's Enterprise Level solution will bring all Boyd properties under one common graphical and report writing umbrella allowing the program to easily compare and contrast relative and absolute asset performance on a property, city, regional, national and global basis.

"Our properties have been asking for dynamic slot analysis tools, and we feel Casino Data Imaging is the right partner to help us meet these needs while keeping pace with a diversity of user requirements and new technologies," said Dennis Frey, vice president of information technologies at Boyd Gaming.

"We are excited about our partnering with Boyd Gaming and providing technology, unparalleled in the industry today, to interface and extract value from slot systems already in place," said Casino Data Imaging spokesman George Levine.

Headquartered in Las Vegas, Boyd Gaming Corp. is a leading diversified owner and operator of 13 gaming entertainment properties located in Nevada, New Jersey, Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana and Louisiana. Boyd Gaming recently opened Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa at Renaissance Pointe (AOL keyword: borgata or www.theborgata.com), a $1.1 billion entertainment destination hotel in Atlantic City, through a joint venture with MGM MIRAGE. In February, the company reached a definitive agreement to merge with Coast Casinos Inc. The $1.3 billion merger is expected to be completed in mid-2004. Boyd Gaming is also awaiting regulatory approval of its acquisition of Harrah's Shreveport, and that is expected in the second quarter 2004. Boyd Gaming press releases are available at www.prnewswire.com. Additional news and information on Boyd Gaming can be found at www.boydgaming.com.

CDI's core product, CasinoCAD(C), has become an important analysis tool for users of SDS, ACSC, SDG, Aristocrat Oasis, Acres, and IGS slot information systems. With close to 100 clients in North America monitoring over 150,000 machines, CDI is the leading provider of visualization and report writing interface software solutions to the gaming industry. Look for CDI at the April 4-7 NIGA conference in Albuquerque, N.M., booth No. 821-823.

For additional information on CDI, please contact George Levine at 702-496-4498 or [e-mail].