News for the Hospitality Executive |
DALLAS and
LONDON (January 18, 2010) – InfoWorld
magazine has named Pegasus Solutions’
next generation central
reservation system (CRS), RezView®
NG, as one of the top 100 IT
projects of 2009. Pegasus’ CRS was the only hospitality technology
solution to
make the annual list, which recognizes 100 IT organizations that have
“integrated
technologies in innovative ways in pursuit of concrete business goals,”
according to the magazine. RezView NG has been lauded by the hospitality industry as the first major redesign of the CRS in more than 20 years. To-date, it has been upgraded to more than 8,000 hotels. Mike Kistner, chief executive officer of Pegasus Solutions, said this recognition from the broader IT community validates Pegasus’ pioneering dedication to creating a better solution for hotel reservations. “In a year when many companies cut investment in IT, we forged ahead with RezView NG, a solution Pegasus has been invested in since 2007. We experienced the thrill of implementation, allowing hotels to realize functionality in central reservations never known to our industry,” said Kistner. “InfoWorld’s list calls out the top 100 real-world projects that ‘stand as proof that striking a new path in IT can reap deep organizational rewards’. And while we’ve realized those organizational rewards, we are also rewarded in being the only hospitality technology provider recognized on this year’s list.” Building on the tradition of Pegasus’ RezView CRS, which has for years maintained industry-leading uptime and sub-second response times, RezView NG is based on Oracle RAC, Solaris, Sun One Application Server, Sun Message Broker, Java/J2EE, and Splunk. Developed using OpenTravel Alliance message structures, RezView NG supports rapid implementation and highly reliable interfaces with a wide variety of property systems. Its flexible design, allows hotels to manage room and non-room inventory, availability status, restrictions, pricing and policies per property preference. “RezView NG represents the solid engineering, hard work and dedication of Pegasus’ team of development, architecture, system administration and system managers. This team’s commitment to design, build and run industry leading applications that could solve pressing fundamental problems for the hospitality industry makes them deserving of this recognition from the greater IT community,” added Kistner. The complete InfoWorld list is available online. “Pegasus is proud to celebrate 20 years of providing innovative solutions to hotels and agents around the globe.” Pegasus Solutions is the world’s leading provider of technology and services to hotels and travel distributors, supplying state-of-the-art central reservation systems and electronic distribution services, advanced agency commission processing and payment services, and hotel marketing representation services. Founded in 1989, Pegasus created and launched the hotel switch, and today its customers include more than 95,000 properties around the globe as well as a majority of the world’s travel agencies. Additionally, Pegasus’ powerful representation arm incorporates Utell® Hotels & Resorts and Utell Connect, services that have been chosen by nearly 11,000 member hotels in more than 130 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry’s largest third-party marketing, sales and reservations specialist. Pegasus also powers the niche consumer web site www.hotelbook.com™, dedicated to promoting independent and boutique hotels throughout the world. Headquartered in Dallas, Pegasus has 18 offices in 11 countries, including regional hubs in London, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, please visit www.pegs.com or www.utell.com. |
Contacts: U.S. media contact: Ariel Herr U.K. media contact: Mandy Murphy +44 (0) 20 8490 4877 [email protected] |