routes leads from partner sites directly into a sales automation system that is installed at hotels and national corporate sales offices. The power of is that it enables hotels to immediately evaluate and accept contracts from Web-based sales leads, merge a proposal and email it back to the meeting planner in minutes, saving hours or days of delay. Another benefit facilitated by is that once leads are routed into the sales automation system, they are stored for future opportunities.
"We feel strongly that partnering with will enhance the flow of leads between all parties buying and selling meeting space," said Paul B. Silverman, Chief Executive Officer of the IXATA Group, Inc. and IXATA.COM. will hasten the response time of hotels to meeting planners sending leads through RFP Express, increasing sales and customer service at the same time."
RFP Express joins publishing partners BusinessMeetings.com, Hot Dates Hot Rates, and PlanIt Online. .
About IXATA.COM
IXATA.COM's premier service today, RFP ExpressSM , is an Internet-based, business-to-business ("B2B") e-commerce purchasing system that integrates an Internet-based interface with a sophisticated data-warehousing system and fax technology to deliver automated solutions for creating, sending, receiving, and managing the Request For Proposal (RFP) process involving thousands of hotel properties worldwide. By automating the RFP business process, RFP Express provides new capabilities and dramatic cost savings to users. RFP Express provides corporate travel managers with a simple "point and click" approach to create, manage and process thousands of RFPs and eliminate costly, labor-intensive paper, faxes and telephone calls. RFP Express is the leading internet-based automated hotel request for proposal service that successfully automates the entire solicitation process. Travel agencies are also working with IXATA.COM to develop co-branded RFP Express versions for their corporate clients, which compliments their current travel management services.
IXATA.COM's internet-based, business-to-business ("B2B") e-commerce system, RFP Express, is currently used by more than 70 major corporations, 1700 hotel properties and four of the world's largest travel agencies to automate the hotel request for proposal (RFP) process.
IXATA.COM (an acronym for Internet eXpress Advanced Technologies and Automation) is positioned to address the needs of the $575 billion corporate travel market and is a wholly owned subsidiary of The IXATA Group, Inc.
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. IXATA.COM is based in San Diego. The IXATA.COM management team includes individuals with extensive experience in the travel and hospitality industry. For more information on IXATA.COM, visit the company's Web site (www.ixata.com).
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Newmarket International () provides software and e-commerce solutions that automate sales and operations for every type of hospitality venue, from independent hotels of any size to resorts, casinos, convention centers, convention & visitors bureaus, and the complete corporate enterprise. Newmarket is widely recognized as the premier innovator of scalable sales and catering systems, web-enabled applications, and today's business-to-business e-commerce strategies (). A total solutions provider, Newmarket offers leading-edge technologies, onsite and Web-based training, consulting, project management and superior support based on unparalleled industry expertise.
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