FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2004

Eventbookings.com win prestigious Microsoft Winning Customer Award.

Allison Watson, vice president, Partner Sales and Marketing Group, Microsoft presents James Clark, Senior Developer at Eventbookings.com with the Microsoft Winning Customer Award.

At the Microsoft International Partner Conference in Toronto Eventbookings were presented with a major award from Microsoft - their Winning Customer Award.This award recognises the success of our eventbookings .NET hosted solution and in particular its implementation for Friends Provident.

“Even among so many outstanding nominees, Eventbookings truly distinguished itself in the Winning Customer category,” said Allison Watson, vice president, Partner Sales and Marketing Group, Microsoft. “Eventbookings is an outstanding Microsoft partner, having a deep understanding of technology, proven expertise in the Events industry, and a passion for building solutions that solve its customers’ business problems in an innovative way. It is truly an honour to recognize Eventbookings outstanding usage of Microsoft technology.”

Philip Haines, Managing Director of Eventbookings commented "an Award from our peers in the software development industry means a lot to us - we see this as an endorsement of a decision taken 3 years ago to focus our future products on a Microsoft .NET solution, and in particular partnering with excellent companies such as Friends Provident".

The solution was first used by Friends Provident in 2003 and has been used regularly for event management of all sales incentives and the annual conference since.

Sue Woods, Marketing Promotions Manager at Friends Provident commented "The service provided by Eventbookings to our delegates and the event staff enables our travel incentive events to run smoothly and efficiently. Delegates can easily manage & modify their own information, and do not need to repeat it for each event they attend. Our own staff have 24 x 7 access to the reports that we need to ensure the event is a success. Overall there has been an increase in the service levels we have been able to deliver as well as reduced costs in areas such as communications"

We also partner with event agency The Revill Partnership with Friends Provident and Brian Revill, Managing Director of The Revill Partnership, the event management company said, "The service provided by Eventbookings to Friends Provident and ourselves contributes to the overall success of the programme. Time that we would have spent on data entry and communicating information to delegates and Friends staff is now unnecessary as all information is online and we can focus on making the events itself a great success.- the online reporting in respect to the rooming list, flight details and optional tours etc provide our suppliers with accurate information for the events ".