CHICAGO | Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) today announced the charter members of a new workgroup that will put forward the first open standards based architecture guidelines for the hospitality industry. This workgroup – the initial sponsors of which are Agilysys, Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, IBM, SAS, Sea Island Company, SSA Global/Infinium, and Station Casinos – will work together to develop and define a hospitality-specific systems architecture that can support customer-centric, product-rich solutions from multiple technology providers.

PITTSBURGH, Sentry Hospitality has implemented Aptech Computer Systems Inc.’s ProfitvueÒ and WebvueÒ ASP back office accounting systems to automate and centralize key financial reporting and analysis functions, Aptech announced today.

MINNEAPOLIS & SAN FRANCISCO | IDeaS, the leading provider of revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies has announced that Kimpton Hotels has signed with IDeaS Revenue Optimization. The product is being initially rolled out to 3 of its 39 hotels. Those hotels are, The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, the Hotel Monaco in Chicago and the Hotel Monaco in Denver.

Dallas | VingCard Elsafe is embarking on an emergency support mission to assist more than 400 of its hurricane-affected customer hotels in securing their properties and regaining full use of their VingCard electronic-locking system and/or Elsafe in-room safes. The four-state support effort, coordinated by all departments in the corporate office, will begin today in Mississippi and will conclude once all hotels have been visited.

UK-based Elizabeth Hotels, a 17-strong group of limited and full service hotels up to 95 bedrooms, recently completed the implementation of RezLynx™, Guestline’s web based, centralised Hotel Enterprise Solution.

TOKYO, MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS) , a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce that Tokyo based Solare Hotels & Resorts has become the largest MICROS OPERA Multi-property management system user in Japan. The initial phase of its roll out program encompassing 17 properties has now been completed.

Visual One Systems are pleased to announce the signing of a contract with Folio Hotels for the supply of the Visual One System to the group, which includes the market leading, fully integrated Property Management, Sales and Catering, Point of Sale, Web Bookings and Spa Management systems.

Visual One Systems are delighted to announce that Barnsdale Hall Hotel, Rutland have placed an order for their integrated Front Office, Sales Ledger, Sales & Catering and Web Bookings. Anne Penman, Director of Barnsdale Hall Hotel said, ‘The service and professionalism we have received from Visual One so far has been superb. We have found them to be very flexible, attentive and helpful. Choosing, negotiating and installing a new software system can be a very stressful experience, Visual One has so far made it seem to be a very straightforward and effortless process.’

MINNEAPOLIS & ATHENS, Greece | IDeaS, the leading provider of revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies has announced that the Athenaeum InterContinental in Athens, Greece has gone live with IDeaS Revenue Optimization v5 ASP solution.

PORTSMOUTH, NH | Newmarket International, the leading provider of sales and catering technology solutions for the hospitality industry announces the deployment of Delphi Sales & Catering, MeetingBroker, and Delphi Business Intelligence into all 33 owned and managed Omni Hotels across the U.S. and Canada. Omni Hotels operates first-class and luxury hotels and resorts throughout North America.