StarCite
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| StarCite Inc. | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | August 28, 1907, Seattle, WA |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Key people | Michael Boult, Chairman & CEO |
| Industry | On Demand enterprise Solutions |
| Employees | 400 (2006) |
| Slogan | On Demand Global Meetings Solutions |
| Website | www.starcite.com |
StarCite, Inc. is the largest on demand meetings management company in the $300 billion global marketplace for meetings and events. StarCite optimizes global investments in corporate meetings and events delivering visibility, savings and control. StarCite provides process efficiency, enabling technology and proven adoption management support to drive significant cost reduction to buyers and enhanced revenues to suppliers.
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[edit] History
Since its inception in 1999, StarCite has revolutionized the way corporate meeting planners and hotels conduct business, by providing an efficient, reliable and convenient platform for meeting managers and suppliers to connect. The StarCite marketplace was created with the goal of lending organization and accountability to the meeting planning process. The marketplace allows meetings professionals to access StarCite’s database and quickly send and receive electronic RFPs. After six years in operation, the StarCite Marketplace reached the 500,000 RFP threshold. The use of on demand technology continued to accelerate and from this point, it took a mere eighteen months for StarCite to reach a new company milestone of delivering its one millionth RFP in May, 2006. Today, StarCite provides meeting management solutions for hundreds of corporations, including more than 135 large multinationals.
[edit] The StarCite logo
The design of the asterisk in the StarCite logo invokes the exchange between buyers and suppliers provided by StarCite and how they are brought together through StarCite’s on demand global meeting solutions. StarCite’s signature orange is used for all corporate communications. The asterisk in the logo appears in green for the buyer division of the company which serves the corporate meeting planning and procurement community. The asterisk appears in blue for the supplier division of the company which serves hotels, destination marketing organizations, and other meeting and event venders.
[edit] Solutions for buyers:
StarCite’s on demand global meeting solutions power a strategic, end-to-end five step meetings management process: Plan – meeting requests and approvals, corporate calendars, workflow, control and ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley; Budget – manage meeting spend, prepare, update and analyze costs – by meeting or enterprise – leverage spend and savings; Buy – connect to suppliers, build and send standard eRFPs, manage preferred supplier relationships, meeting procurement and strategic sourcing; Attend – build and manage attendee registration sites for each meeting including sessions, speakers, housing, air, meals, etc., integrate attendee data with Global Distribution Systems, GDS and automatically transfer PNR data; Measure – ROI, real-time metrics, dashboards, visibility, consolidate meeting data with transient travel. [insert our Plan-budget-buy chart here]
StarCite Adoption Management provides proven strategies to drive rapid implementation, training and adoption to maximize ROI and meet the needs of corporations within any market segment.
[edit] Solutions for suppliers:
The world’s largest global meetings marketplace linking meeting buyers with 93,000 hotel properties and meetings suppliers in every key market around the world and providing more than $5 billion in revenue opportunities. StarCite also offers best-in-class technology to power lead management and RFP traffic for “private label” hotel websites.
StarCite’s innovative marketing solutions help convention and visitor bureaus, tourism offices and other destination marketing organizations reach and book more meeting and convention business. Destination marketing organizations use StarCite’s our private label RFP technology to power meeting RFPs on their websites. Around the globe, StarCite’s destination marketing solutions deliver advanced technologies in combination with marketing, sales and representation.
