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Richardson, TX, and Orlando, FL, June 14, 2012 – Enseo, Inc., the
preferred
platform for in-room entertainment and digital signage in hospitality,
retail,
healthcare, and stadiums and arenas, and Intelity, the leading hotel
guest
services management company and creators of the ICE (Interactive
Customer
Experience™) enterprise platform, announced today the introduction of
ICEbox™,
which automatically enables Intelity’s ICE directly on Enseo
set-back/set-top
boxes (SBB/STB)*, creating an interactive in-room entertainment and
customized
guest services experience.
ICEbox combines the benefits of Enseo’s in-room entertainment platform and Intelity’s guest services, providing hotels with more in-room entertainment choices, retrofit options, reduced expenses and an overall better guest experience. With Enseo, hotels have a reliable and proven set-back box, as well as hotel branding through a customized Welcome Page, Interactive Program Guide (IPG) and Channel Banner, extending hotel branding and marketing messages directly to the guest room and creating a user-friendly, interactive in-room entertainment experience for guests. Intelity’s ICE enterprise platform provides fully interactive hotel services that allow guests to order and make requests for room service, housekeeping needs, wake-up calls, local information and live airline/transportation data all through the TV, simplifying and elevating the guest experience while streamlining efficiencies for the hotel. “Enabling Intelity’s ICE on Enseo STBs means that any hotel with Enseo’s platform now has access to ICE with a simple, software upgrade**,” commented Vanessa Ogle, president and CEO of Enseo. “The Enseo platform is extremely flexible and robust, enabling development that continues to enhance the guest experience in hotels. Our partnership with Intelity further demonstrates Enseo’s continued commitment to innovate. With the Enseo platform, hoteliers can be confident they will keep pace with guest expectations.” ICEbox expands hotel choices for in-room entertainment and guest self-service solutions. Any hotel that has an HD3000 or newer Enseo set-back box, regardless of the VOD provider or integrator, now has the ability to retrofit rooms with ICE, giving guests access to numerous services through the TV. In addition, new installs with the Enseo platform also have direct access to ICE. “We’re excited
to extend the availability of ICE to hotels everywhere via the ICEbox,”
said
David Adelson, president and CEO of Intelity. “Virtually any hotel can
now
provide guests with easy and direct access to hotel services, improving
their
stays, increasing hotel operating efficiencies, reducing in-room
printing costs
and even building revenues. With the ICEbox solution, select-service
properties
have cost effective options
to deliver a
fully interactive guest in-room entertainment and
service experience,
previously
affordable for only full-service properties.”
The Enseo platform is known for compatibility. Whether content is delivered over coax or IP infrastructure or comes from a cable or satellite provider, the Enseo platform provides a solution in a single SBB/STB. Enseo is compatible with a variety of integrators, VOD providers, displays and in-room control providers, and now, Enseo simplifies the process for hotels to enjoy the benefits of ICE with Intelity compatibility. Intelity's ICE enterprise platform, the world’s first fully interactive guest services technology, integrates into more than 25 hotel systems making for a smarter hotel, and, with direct access to every hotel service, making for happier guests. ICEbox will be available summer 2012. Both Enseo and Intelity will be exhibiting at HITEC, the world’s largest hospitality show, in Baltimore, MD, June 25 – 28 in booths 1607 and 2019, respectively. *ICEbox applies to HD3000 and later set-top boxes. **Additional license fees apply. About Enseo  Enseo, Inc. is a provider of in-room
entertainment and digital signage for hospitality, retail, healthcare,
and
stadiums and arenas. The company’s flexible technology, including
set-back
boxes, digital media players, and applications, displays virtually any
media,
on any display, through any distribution medium. With Enseo, choices in
displays, programming, PPV and VOD providers, and distribution are
unlimited,
allowing hoteliers and other end users more control over in-room
entertainment
and digital signage systems. Powering more than 1.7 million hotel
rooms, Enseo
is preferred by North America’s largest hotel groups and digital
signage
operators. For more information, visit www.enseo.com. About Intelity  Intelity, headquartered in Orlando,
Florida, is the creator of the world’s
first fully integrated enterprise platform including an interactive
guest
services interface, ICE (Interactive Customer Experience™), with a
full,
real-time backend management tool that measures ROI and integrates into
more
than 25 hotel management systems from PMS (property management
systems), POS
(Point of Sale), Ticket, Spa, Restaurant, Room Controls and other
management
systems. Since beginning operations in 2007, the hospitality solutions
company
has grown exponentially and become a pioneer in hospitality technology
with the
deployment of ICE across four continents serving almost 500 hotels
worldwide,
including all major brands and many significant independents. The
customizable
interface allows guests to arrange services via an in-room touch screen
tablet
(ICE Touch); smartphone (ICE Mobile); TV (ICE TV); laptop (ICE
Connect); or
touch screen (ICE Lobby). The ICE platform has been recognized industry
wide
earning Intelity the industry’s “Most Innovative Hospitality
Technology” award
in 2011, in a vote by hoteliers and the Business Traveler Innovation
Award for
Best Travel Convenience & Efficiency Innovation. Become acquainted
with ICE
and learn what Intelity’s hotel partners are saying on the Intelity
website www.intelitycorp.com.
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