May 21, 2003, Weston, Fla. - Interstate Hotels & Resorts deployed Decisions Payroll Control software from Datavision Technologies at several hotels throughout the United States. Datavision�s flagship product, Decisions Business Intelligence System, automatically extracts and consolidates data from various systems (PMS, POS, Timeclock, etc.) into a data warehouse to provide automated flash reporting, payroll control and analysis. 

At each Interstate location where the system is in use, Decisions streamlines the labor reporting process by automatically generating a detailed report that is delivered to department heads early each morning. The report displays regular and overtime data, compared to forecast and budget for each individual payroll position. In addition, productivity information such as payroll cost per occupied room, cost percentage of revenue and cost per cover is calculated, along with projected month-end payroll based on the efficiency of each department. The report is presented in graphs to help department heads immediately identify problem areas. 

�In the current economic climate, controlling labor costs is of paramount importance to our hotels,� said Brian Garavuso, chief technology officer of Interstate Hotels & Resorts.  �By automatically delivering a detailed labor report to each department head, Decisions has enhanced our hotels� ability to quickly spot trends and understand their payroll costs. The management team at each property can use Decisions to monitor and control their labor costs within forecasted occupancy immediately.  We were able to achieve the ROI on this system very rapidly.� 

�Most resorts today spend considerable amounts of time manually re-keying numbers from various reports into spreadsheets. Decisions automates the collection, warehousing and delivery of all this data so that users can spend their valuable time analyzing data and taking action to proactively affect the bottom line,� remarked Sudharshan Chary, president of Datavision.

The Decisions Payroll Control Module has been installed in a variety of hotel and resort flags within Interstate�s portfolio, including Hilton, Sheraton, Doubletree, Radisson, Holiday Inn, etc. 

About Datavision Technologies, Inc.
Datavision Technologies, Inc., a privately owned company established in 1996 and based in Weston, Fla., serves more than 60 clients in hotels and resorts across North America. Datavision�s data-warehousing products have successfully been used to achieve a variety of goals, including night audit automation, revenue management, forecasting, marketing, corporate consolidation, payroll control, comment-card reporting, owner reporting and group revenue analysis. For more information, log on to the corporate Web site, www.datavisiontech.com, or contact Sherry Marek at Datavision Technologies Inc., 860 Marina Drive, Weston, FL 33327; phone (954) 385-0525 ext 113, or e-mail [email protected].

About Interstate Hotels & Resorts
Interstate Hotels & Resorts, the nation's largest independent hotel management company, operates more than 380 hospitality properties with nearly 82,000 rooms in 44 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Russia, including 55 properties managed by Flagstone Hospitality Management, a subsidiary of Interstate Hotels & Resorts. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C. More information can be obtained on the company�s Web site at www.ihrco.com