LAUSANNE, Switzerland & MINNEAPOLIS | IDeaS, the leading provider of revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry's fastest growing technology companies today announced a partnership with the acclaimed Ecole hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL). EHL and IDeaS will be working towards developing the next generation of technology-based hospitality solutions.

COLUMBIA, Md., MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS) , a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, and InterContinental Hotels Group, are pleased to announce that over 1,100 InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) hotels in North America have been installed with the MICROS OPERA and MICROS OPERA Xpress solutions. Almost 1,400 IHG Hotels have been installed worldwide including 53 in Latin America, 158 in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, and 58 in Asia Pacific.

Newmarket International, the leading provider of sales and catering technology solutions for the hospitality industry announces the deployment of Delphi® Sales and Catering Systems in Steve Wynn’s most anticipated hotel, Wynn Las Vegas. The $2.7 billion hotel-casino opened its doors April 28 with more than 200,000 square feet of convention and meeting space available.

COLUMBIA, Md., MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS) , a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, and Candlewood Suites, an extended stay concept of InterContinental Hotels Group, will partner to deploy the MICROS OPERAXpress Property Management System to all Candlewood Suite properties. This solution, which is centrally hosted will be deployed to all corporately managed Candlewood properties in an Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster configuration powered by Hewlett Packard's Integrity Servers.

Pune, India and Minneapolis, Minnesota| IDeaS, the leading provider of revenue optimization solutions and one of the industry’s fastest growing technology companies today announced that the Leela Palace Kempinski Hotel Bangalore has become the 9th Kempinski Hotel to install the IDeaS Revenue Optimization solution. The Leela Palace Bangalore has broken new ground and is utilizing the IDeaS V5 ASP software as a service.

Hotel Technology Next Generation (HTNG) announced today that more than 160 leading hotel technology executives, technology vendors, consultants, and other interested parties gathered in Las Vegas for HTNG's first Annual Conference, held on April 20 and 21. Attendees included 20 CEOs and 23 CIOs/CTOs; senior managers accounted for well over half the audience.

COLUMBIA, Md. | MICROS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: MCRS - News), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce that Westmark Hotels, a subsidiary of Holland America Line, has deployed MICROS's OPERA Reservation System (ORS) to manage central reservations for its 11 hotels. Additionally, Westmark has now deployed OPERA Customer Information System (OCIS) to centrally store guest history, and OPERA Web Suite to provide real-time web connectivity to book reservations directly to the OPERA Reservation System, eliminating any transactional fees.

PORTSMOUTH, NH./PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Newmarket International, the leading provider of sales and catering technology solutions for the hospitality industry, and StarCite, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based technologies and services for the global meetings and events industry, today announced the full two-way web services integration between StarCite™ and MeetingBroker™. Meeting planners using StarCite are seamlessly connected to MeetingBroker subscribing hotel properties allowing for streamlined electronic communications and automated exchange of proposal data. Responses entered in MeetingBroker automatically and immediately populate relevant sections in StarCite.

MIAMI | MTech recently celebrated the 500th installation of its PMWorks preventative maintenance scheduling software - helping hotels of all sizes and types automate operations to improve productivity and ensure guestrooms and public spaces are in excellent working order for significantly enhanced satisfaction scores, repeat business and word-of-mouth referrals.

Columbia, MD -- MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce that it has been ranked the #1 information technology company based in the Washington, DC area, in the 2005 Post 200, conducted by the Washington Post.