SAN DIEGO, CA, August 24, 2009 – SignUp4, LLC, a leading provider of Strategic Meetings Management software solutions, announced today at the NBTA Conference that they will integrate select corporate travel products with Amadeus, the world leader in providing solutions to the travel industry, to deliver an easy-to-use, end-to-end solution for North American customers.

The integration of SignUp4's Event Management System with Amadeus e-Travel Management gives meeting planners and corporate travel managers a complete overview of meeting registrations and travel bookings. The SignUp4 product allows for easy and precise meeting and event registration and Amadeus e-Travel Management is one of the most comprehensive corporate self-booking tools available today for the management of business travel worldwide. With the integration, meeting attendees registering via a SignUp4-powered registration website can then automatically be logged into Amadeus e-Travel Management to make travel arrangements for the meeting.

Also integrated is SignUp4's Travel Management System (TMS) with the Amadeus global distribution system (GDS), allowing for meeting event management intelligence. This gives SignUp4 customers who use the Amadeus distribution system in the U.S. and Canada the ability to pull flight itineraries directly from Amadeus into SignUp4. Meeting and event planners now have complete insight into travel policy compliance; they can easily generate reports from within SignUp4 that show, for example, which employees are out of policy, which have not booked a flight, and which travel procedure needs to be addressed.

"The ability to pull custom reports specific to each meeting or travel planner's needs is a unique and defining measure in the meeting industry," explains Nick Romano, President of SignUp4. "We have given the meeting planners a resolution for matching meeting registrants with their company's travel guidelines. They know who has registered for a meeting or event, and they now know who is in or out of policy for that meeting. This is valuable information."

SignUp4 and Amadeus have also entered into a joint referral program, effective immediately. "By recommending each other as a stand-alone entity, we use our reputations as industry leaders to give those looking for single product solutions an educated opinion. They can take this information and make a smart business decision based on their individual needs." said Romano.

"We're working closely with Amadeus on defining and offering solutions to meet the needs of the meeting industry," says John Broaddus, Vice President of Sales. "We anticipate the industry to embrace this and other projects as ways to make meeting and travel planning easier and to give them the insight and ability to plan smarter."

"By integrating and aligning the Amadeus and SignUp4 solutions, we have found an innovative way to save planners and companies not just time, but money," said Eddie Tie, Director of Strategic Business Development, Amadeus North America. "We have created an information repository for business travel that will empower the meeting and travel planner to increase compliance for corporate travel policies and procedures while increasing their efficiency and cost savings."

Contact:
Jeffie Davis
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About SignUp4 | Founded in 1999, SignUp4, LLC, has built a strong team of experienced software technology and meetings management experts driven by a single objective – to design, develop and deliver cost-effective meetings management solutions for corporate meeting planners, travel planners and events management agencies. Through open and collaborative working relationships with its customers and industry leading partnerships that fuel continuous product innovations and services upgrades, SignUp4 enables customers to change the way they manage their evolving strategic meetings management needs. More information is available at http://www.signup4.com.

About Amadeus | Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travelers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting. More information about Amadeus is available at http://www.amadeus.com/corporations.

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