Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 01, 2012

Rearden Commerce, creator of the Deem™ ecommerce platform, today announced it has partnered with SignUp4, a leading provider of strategic meetings management technology, to integrate its strategic event management software with Deem Travel. The integration will provide a seamless meeting registration and travel booking solution for customers of Rearden Commerce and SignUp4.

Benefits of the partnership to company meeting planners and attendees include the ability to:

For planners:

• Improve visibility into meeting and event spend
• Establish cost controls through meeting specific travel policies, including negotiated rates, form of payment, and agency settings
• Support reporting for managing budgets and meeting logistics

For attendees:

• Increase efficiency with seamless integration between meeting registration and air travel self-booking by traveler or delegate, including auto-populating meeting parameters into trip planning search form (i.e. arrival airport, meeting dates)
• Provide integrated and consistent user experience for meeting and non-meeting travel reservations

“We are pleased to work with SignUp4 to expand customer access to event management services to make the experience of planning meeting travel easy and the results cost effective,” said Andrew McGraw, Senior Vice President, Travel Services. “With Deem, we’ve built an open platform which allows value-added service providers like SignUp4 to quickly and easily integrate with our expansive business travel offering.”

“SignUp4 and Rearden are a powerful combination and another example of how SignUp4 can easily be integrated with other industry leading applications,” said Matt Hodge, SignUp4’s VP of Sales. “Our alliance will ensure compliance with corporate travel policy and reduce the cost of travel by decreasing the number of agent assisted bookings.”

Deem™ Travel, the online business travel management application from Rearden Commerce, expands spend management beyond traditional travel services to include dining, ground transportation, shipping, airport parking, web-conferencing and entertainment services. Deem Travel increases visibility and control across several business services to enhance efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Travel managers can tailor their programs based on their company’s travel management objectives to easily enforce policies, automate quality control protocols, provide detailed reporting and tracking, and manage negotiated programs.

About SignUp4
SignUp4, LLC is a leading provider of strategic meetings management software, technology and services for the enterprise business event planner and travel planning marketplace. Founded in 1999 and backed by an experienced team of software, technology and event management experts, we are driven by a single objective- to design, develop and deliver cost-effective event management tools for corporate meeting planners, travel planners and event management agencies.

About Rearden Commerce
Rearden Commerce, creator of the Deem™ ecommerce platform, is transforming commerce on behalf of buyers and sellers. Through a suite of interoperable smart applications, the Deem platform is designed to leverage big data, analytics and semantics technology to optimize the exchange of goods, services, and information with personalization and repeat value to drive customer loyalty. Deem is distributed globally by more than 40 strategic partners including American Express and JPMorgan Chase – connecting millions of consumers and over 16,500 business customers across every market segment to more than 1.2 million merchants. Rearden Commerce is headquartered in Foster City, California.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) January 27, 2012

SignUp4 the leading provider of strategic meetings management software, is pleased to present this review of its progress in 2011. This past year, SignUp4 celebrated its 12th year in business with record revenues, new staff and service expansions. “We grew our employee base by 10 percent, added 19 new Fortune 500 customers, added over 700 new features to our products, and acquired Worktopia Inc.,” said Nick Romano, Founder and President of SignUp4. “Our client renewal results as a percentage of monthly recurring revenue demonstrates the organization’s client focus.”

During 2011, the organization renewed over 94 percent of revenue up for renewal. “Perhaps the most exciting result was the market’s acceptance and support of our Strategic Meetings Management Suite. We continue to expand our client base in this emerging market sector,” stated Romano. The SignUp4 strategic meetings management product line now includes the Event Management System,Travel Management System, Spend Management System, and the Small Meeting Solution.

Throughout the year, SignUp4 also accomplished the following:

New Systems Released
The development team solidified product offerings by adding 716 new features to the suite. Features including budget estimator and advanced session capabilities are helping to support and streamline the production side of the event cycle.

Worktopia Acquisition
In May of 2011, SignUp4 acquired Worktopia, Inc. after a number of years collaborating on the Worktopia booking engine. Romano included that, “this addition illustrates our commitment to bringing new, innovative products to the small meetings sector.” Following this acquisition, SignUp4 entered into a reseller agreement with one of the world’s largest travel management companies to bring a booking tool for small meetings to their mid-market customers. There are plans to re-launch this product to the market during 2012.

Marketing Vision
In November of 2011, the organization refocused its marketing efforts on becoming an industry thought-leader. To this end, intense marketing and content development initiatives are underway.

Overall Growth
SignUp4 grew top-line revenue by 22 percent, increased event registration usage by nearly 23 percent, and achieved a 39 percent increase in the Spend Management System. The Travel Management System retrieved 68 percent more travel records over the previous year.

“As we look forward to 2012, SignUp4 will continue to innovate in the SMM space with further additions to our budget estimator, the launch of a small meeting tool, and enhanced integrations into corporate expense tools. Our direct integration approach to obtaining travel records has opened the door to a new set of travel related features currently in development for 2012,” said Romano.

SignUp4 would like to thank its employees, clients and business partners for their ongoing support.

About SignUp4
SignUp4, LLC is the leading provider of strategic event management software, technology and services for the enterprise business event planner and travel planning marketplace. Founded in 1999 and backed by an experienced team of software, technology and event management experts, we are driven by a single objective- to design, develop and deliver cost-effective event management tools for corporate meeting planners, travel planners and event management agencies.

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SignUp4, LLC, a leading provider of strategic meetings management software, announced they have added new features to their SignUp4 Event Management System (EMS).

Signup4′s new Session Builder introduces a quick and intuitive graphic interface that allows event planners to easily build complex sessions and manage the rules for their events. The system automatically generates business logic and rules for the sessions, removing the need for a complex setup process. This offering has many functions, including track selection, dependencies, and agenda information capabilities.  In addition to being included in all of the existing SignUp4 reports, this information can be used to generate individualized agendas, detailed name badges, instructor reports, and rosters of all classes.

The Badge Designer and Template Wizard allow an Event Planner to easily use the system to create or manage attendee badges, barcode and labels. SignUp4 works with multiple barcode reader vendors supporting a wide variety of barcodes from 2 Dimensional QR codes to standard alphanumeric.  The layout of badges is completely customizable, with the ability to choose from Industry Standard dimensions, all standard Avery and Dymo badge and label formats, or you can build your own custom layout.

The Kiosk Module provides Event Planners a simple to use interface for handling the onsite registration desk for scanning, manually searching for, and entering new attendees. The system integrates directly into the SignUp4 Badge Designer to print on demand.  This product is fully customizable to efficiently perform multiple tasks such as check-in and badge re-printing and above all to keep the line moving.

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