Markham, ON – July 6, 2005 – NORTHWIND, a provider of enterprise property management and reservation solutions for hospitality, announced today the esteemed Winthrop Rockefeller Center in Arkansas selected the Maestro Enterprise Suite to automate its property management, conference sales, and Internet reservation booking operation.  The Winthrop Rockefeller Center is scheduled to install Maestro Property Management, Maestro Sales and Catering, and the ResEze Web booking engine in July 2005.

Jim Fix, The Winthrop Rockefeller Center’s director of hospitality said, “The Winthrop Rockefeller Center is a historic facility on the grounds of the original Rockefeller Ranch, home of our former governor.  We selected the Maestro Enterprise System to bring our beautiful facility into the 21st Century with the most sophisticated technology available.  We will automate our entire property, from the front desk to our conference center, on one platform and tie into the Internet to enable guests to make reservations directly from our Center’s future website.  The system will be an appropriate complement to our coming expansion.”  

Voted the number one conference center in Arkansas, Winthrop Rockefeller Center is a full service conference facility within the University of Arkansas system that combines leisure and learning by offering meeting rooms with seating up to 125 people, four breakout rooms seating 16 people each, a 200-seat dining room, and 45 guest rooms and suites.  The Conference Center will be more than doubling its function space in the coming year, and will add 30 rooms to its inventory.

NORTHWIND’s President of US Operations, Warren Dehan, said, “With the Maestro Sales and Catering System integrated with Maestro Front Office the Winthrop Rockefeller Center will maintain accurate inventories and real-time yield controlled rates for all of its conference attendees -- this is essential for every conference facility.  Our ResEze online booking engine will also give the Center the ability to have its guests reserve accommodations 24-hours a day for important meetings directly from front office availability.  Their new Maestro conference center automation platform will also support their coming growth perfectly.”  

Maestro Enterprise Suite

The Maestro Property Management Suite combines a full-function Front Office system in use by hotels from 3,500 to 25 rooms with a family of robust modules that includes Maestro GDS+ -- an online, real-time reservation engine with integrated Yield Management to maximize ADR for virtually all eReservation channels; Maestro Owner Management – fully integrated ownership accounting functionality for asset performance reporting; Maestro Sales & Catering -- manages group-convention sales and function rooms, whether at one property or a portfolio of hotels; ResEze Web Booking Engine - enables independent and multi-property hotels to take advantage of the growing online revenue opportunity by providing tools for guests to book their own reservations from an operator’s website; Maestro Yield – a revenue manager that makes sophisticated strategies easy for multiple booking channels at one or more properties; Maestro Analytics -- a complete business intelligence software suite that lets end-users interactively analyze critical business information; Maestro CRM – gives managers the information to make the best business decisions for booking new business; Maestro Club/Spa – enables resorts, hotels and clubs to schedule facilities and activities with real-time integration to all other modules. Also available is Maestro CRS, which supports a two-way interface to corporate sales offices and Maestro Multi-Property, used by many multi-property operating companies and corporate reservation facilities. The system supports a number of properties on a single server with a single database, or each property can rely on its own server with all files being replicated at the central corporate offices. 
 
About NORTHWIND

NORTHWIND, known in the hospitality industry for its service and state-of-the-art technology, is widely respected for providing hotels, private organizations, and corporate management companies with flexible software solutions.

Based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, with a network of dealers and offices worldwide, NORTHWIND is a leading supplier of software for all types of hospitality operations including hotels, resorts, timeshares, condominiums, seminaries, state parks, and clubs.  Maestro applications are engineered for operators who need to manage their enterprise in a real time environment for the utmost operational control and profitability.  Designed to maximize the efficiency of any size single hotel or multi-property enterprise, NORTHWIND's Maestro solution offers the most productive working environment, which includes the following suite of products:  PMS, Sales & Catering, Club/Spa Management, Corporate Reservations Office, Multi-Property Management, Condo/Owner Management, Yield Management, POS & Online Table Res, GDS Connectivity and ResEze Internet Reservations.  This comprehensive multi-platform (Windows 2000/XP, Unix/Linux, Terminal Server & Web Enabled) suite is recognized as the solution of choice for progressive and demanding organizations.  NORTHWIND is a total solution provider that offers leading-edge technologies, and unparalleled training and support.