Following an intensive year of design and development, the state-of-the art Revenue Management system from Talus has been rolled out. The system interfaces with the RezView(TM) Central Reservation System from REZsolutions and with Hilton's new worldwide reservation system, HILSTAR, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 1999.

"We're very pleased with the extraordinary efforts by Talus on this project," said Greg Cross, Vice President, Revenue Management at Hilton Hotels Corporation. "We initiated this project with Talus under great time pressure and facing many technological challenges.

Talus organized teams from their Atlanta and Mountain View, Calif., offices to work with multiple teams from Hilton and a number of other suppliers. Such coordination requirements represented a significant challenge for everyone, and Talus met the challenge headon."

"Hilton Hotels Corporation continues to lead the industry in many aspects of Revenue Management, and this project represents one of the more sophisticated Revenue Management initiatives in the world," said Larry Hall, Talus Chief Operating Officer. "Hilton has a comprehensive view of Revenue Management which includes a focus on training, organization, and business process, in addition to technology. They have realized impressive revenue gains through their Revenue Management initiatives, and Talus is very proud to have Hilton in our portfolio of highly successful clients."

About Talus

Based in Silicon Valley, Atlanta and London, Talus provides Revenue Management solutions to businesses around the world. By combining business process design, sophisticated mathematical algorithms and advanced information technology, Talus offers innovative software systems and business processes that have delivered more than 15 billion (US$) of incremental revenue to clients. For more information about Talus, please visit our website at www.talus.net
 

Revenue Management: A Required Business Practice  Talus Revenue Management involves sophisticated computer technology to capture large amounts of data, process it with complex mathematical formulas and present the results to users in a way that enables them to make better business decisions. At Talus, we are focused on identifying opportunities for increasing "revenue." This is a powerful differentiator from companies that are focused on simply reducing cost or increasing productivity. For most companies worldwide, the greatest opportunities that they have for increasing profitability are on the "revenue side" rather than the cost side. Our customers measure the improvements from our solutions in units of 10's of millions of dollars. In most cases, we are the highest value IT investment opportunity available to a client.

About REZsolutions, Inc.

Created by combining the strength of two highly successful companies, Utell International and Anaszai, Inc., REZsolutions is the world leader in providing integrated technology, reservation and marketing solutions for the hospitality industry. Almost one third of worldwide hotel rooms are represented by customers who use REZsolutions' RezView(TM), a comprehensive central reservations system which uses a Windows-based graphical interface and includes the application of centralized yield technology to help properties maximize revenue. For more information, please visit www.rezsolutions.com.