SDD Announces Internet Accounting and Billing Solutions For Providers of Guest High Speed Internet Services 

Delray Beach, FL - May 24, 2000 - SDD today announced high-speed guest internet billing and accounting software for managers and providers of in-room guest network services. JAZZ Guest Internet Accounting provides real time on-property monitoring, billing, and control of guest access to Internet content and services. JAZZ Guest Internet Accounting provides internet billing for guest rooms, meeting rooms, convention spaces, and tenant spaces.

JAZZ can be integrated with, but operate independently from, existing technology choices including property management systems, network technologies like ethernet, DSL, and wireless, and the selection of guest content sources and web site portals. 

�Our customers and partners seek a single, integrated guest communications accounting and billing platform;� states Ron Tarro, President and CEO of SDD. �Our customers believe that their communications billing solution is a strategic tool in differentiating their brands and their services to guests;� continues Mr. Tarro. They seek a single solution for delivering digital amenities to guests and for understanding and controlling guest Internet revenues and profits."
 

In conjunction with JAZZ Guest Telephone Call Accounting, SDD customers can provide billing services for telephone, Internet bandwidth usage, and content -specific guest Internet services using one system. The JAZZ Enterprise Communications Accounting family now provides a single, completely integrated, telephone and internet communications accounting solution for diverse collections of properties like hotels, convention and meeting spaces, tenant properties, hospitals, extended stays, and condominiums. JAZZ Enterprise communications accounting operates under Microsoft Windows NT.
 

SDD Announces A Centralized Telephone Call Accounting Solution For Owners and Managers of Multiple Properties 

May 24, 2000 - SDD today announced general availability of a centralized call accounting solution for owners and managers of multiple geographically distributed
properties and corporate locations.

JAZZ Enterprise Server provides telephone and communications accounting services for one or many properties, operating one or many PBX�s and property management systems. It provides these services simultaneously and in real time from a single centralized data base.  JAZZ Enterprise Server can reside anywhere on a corporate LAN/WAN, and can operate across Intranets or the Internet. It can be hosted and managed as part of an existing internal or externally outsourced corporate or regional data center.

�JAZZ Enterprise Server challenges the commonly held assumption that each property or PBX requires an independent onsite call accounting system�, states Ron Tarro, President and CEO of SDD. �Today there is considerable pressure in some organizations to consolidate and leverage technology investments and technical skills regionally, nationally, and across an enterprise. JAZZ Enterprise Server enables this consolidation yet it provides full functionality, independence, and control to the individual properties, observes Mr. Tarro.�

A central JAZZ Enterprise Server enables some new and valuable benefits for managers of telecommunications.

Call Accounting as a service to properties rather than a technology managed by the property. 

JAZZ Enterprise lowers the cost and complexity of call accounting by centralizing and integrating technology. Routine call accounting activities can be consolidated off a property while retaining property access to call accounting information. Organizations can consolidate the monitoring of call accounting activity, around one central point. Backup and recovery can also be centrally managed.  

Centralization lowers the cost of call accounting and allows telecommunications skills to be shared across properties.  It creates a lower incremental cost of adding and managing properties which gives smaller properties access to the more sophisticated functionality of JAZZ without the operational complexity. 

JAZZ�s integrated cross-property database allows for development of corporate-wide telephony and telecommunications billing and pricing programs. These programs and pricing policies can also be customized or overridden at the property level. 

Telephone rate tables and surcharge decisions can be implemented centrally and immediately across all or some properties using JAZZ�s integrated multiple-property database.  

JAZZ information and functionality is accessible from anywhere on a corporate network. JAZZ provides up to the minute on-demand access to telecommunications activity across one or all properties. The JAZZ database also provides a single integrated point for delivery of telephony information to enterprise corporate data warehouse systems and to yield management solutions. 

SDD  provides telephone, network, and internet communications accounting software to hospitality, convention, and tenant markets. 

JAZZ Enterprise Communications Accounting is developed and marketed by Systems Design & Development, Inc. (�SDD�), SDD creates call accounting and internet accounting specifically for owners and operators of hospitality related properties. 

SDD�s customers include many of the most prestigious hospitality properties in the world. Including: Amelia Island Plantation, South Seas Plantation, Four Seasons, Ritz Carlton, Bellagio, The Cloister, Little Nell, The Breakers, Colonial Williamsburg, Opryland USA, The Plaza, Hershey Resorts, McCormick Place Convention Center, the MGM Grand, LA Convention Center, The Greenbrier, The Venetian, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, Doral Golf Resort, and The Phoenician. SDD corporate customers include: Trump Casinos, Mirage Resorts, Harrah�s Entertainment, Casino America, Circus Circus Hotels, Park Place Entertainment, Caesars World, Loews Hotels, Royal Sonesta, Peppermill Hotels, and Harvey�s Resorts.