April 1, 2005 - Carlson Hotels Worldwide announced an agreement to acquire 12 Prime Hotels from HTP, and reflag them as Radisson, Country Inn & Suites, and Park Plaza brands. CIA is proud to announce that in addition to providing Budget and Forecast software to the newly acquired properties, Carlson has also chosen to use CIA's DSTAT software for producing daily reporting and journal entries. As part of the agreement, CIA is interfacing DSTAT to both the Opera PMS and Carlson's accounting system. The software, which was deployed in early May, 2005, will automatically read in data exported from the PMS, provide a variety of daily trending reports at the property, produce a series of corporate level reports available on line, and automatically load data from the audit journal into the Carlson Accounting System. In addition to the hotels obtained in the HTP transaction, Carlson has also installed DSTAT at the recently opened Country Inn and Suites New Orleans.

August, 2004Dallas Texas based Bradford Suites has chosen CIA's Preventative Maintenance software for their 9 all suite properties, located in Texas and Colorado. CIA's combination of streamlined technology and affordable price, made PM the right choice for Bradford.

February, 2004Computer Ingenuity Associates is pleased to announce that the Windsor Hospitality Group (WHG), a part of the Windsor Capital Group, has chosen CIA's PM software and Asset Management web based solution for their 22 hotels. WHG, which is based out of California, operates 22 hotels in 10 states. Their portfolio includes: Embassy Suites, Radisson's, Renaissance and Marriott Hotels, Hawthorne Suites, Holiday Inn's, and others.

CIA is proud to announce that FelCor Lodging Trust will be the first to use their new Asset Management and Replacement software. This web-based application (implemented with Microsoft.NET Technology) is tied directly to CIA's Preventative Maintenance software, which runs at more than 150 of FelCor's hotels. This new technology receives periodic updates automatically from the PM software running at the hotels. The web base portion of the program then allows FelCor Engineering and Asset Management Personnel to monitor the maintenance of their facilities from anywhere. Additional functionality allows Felcor Engineering personnel to schedule on going asset replacement, removing and adding pieces of equipment (and other types of assets) from the web site. Additional corporate level functionality includes the ability to add company wide tasks to the maintenance requirements for any equipment or asset listed in the PM software, as well as future development aimed at providing on line, integrated, capital planning.

More and more hotels and banquet facilities are choosing CIA's affordable sales and Catering solution. Our latest users range from the Off Site Catering Operation of one of the worlds grand old hotels… to one of Las Vegas landmark casinos… to small market Limited Service properties, and every size and type of hotel in between. For all these properties CAST proved to be the right choice of functionality and affordability.

FelCor Lodging Trust Uses Hotel-PM Software at All Hotels -
October 15, 2003 - FelCor Lodging Trust (www.felcor.com) has begun the roll out of the Hotel-PM preventative maintenance software at all 180 owned hotels.  The Hotel-PM software is developed and distributed by Computer Ingenuity Associates, Inc. (www.ciasoft.com) in partnership with TSoftware, Inc. (www.tsoftware.com). The software will help FelCor maintain records on all maintenance items for the hotel properties to assure that adequate maintenance is being performed and avoid premature replacement of major equipment.  The Hotel-PM software is linked to a web site that will allow FelCor's corporate office to monitor the data and run reports as needed.

Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa Rolls Out CIA Budget & Forecast Software
July 14, 2003 - Sanibel Harbour Resort & Spa ( http://www.sanibel-resort.com ) has contracted with Computer Ingenuity Associates, Inc. to license the CIA Financial Planning  software for budgeting and forecasting.  The full service resort operates a hotel, an inn and condos all on one property.  The CIA software has been configured to handle this complexity along with integration to forecast the varied food & beverage outlets, the harbor cruise, and the spa.

Carlson Hotels WorldWide Select CIA Financial Planning Software -
June 1, 2003 - Carlson Hotels Worldwide has selected the CIA Financial Planning software for producing budgets and forecasts at all the hotels it manages under the Radisson name. The managed hotels are all full service but vary greatly in the size and type of food & beverage outlets and meeting space.  Despite this variety, all hotels share a common accounting structure allowing the budget system to report on one hotel, a group of hotels or all hotels all from a  common platform.

Marcus Hotels & Resorts Installs CAST at Three Additional Hotels
March 1, 2003 - Marcus Hotels & Resorts has contracted with Computer Ingenuity Associates to implement the CAST Sales Automation solution at the Miramonte Resort, Hilton Madison Monona Terrace and the Hotel Phillips.  Jeff Henschel, Marcus' Corporate Director of Information Technology, says "CAST give us all the same features and reports as Delphi but at a fraction  of the cost."  With the new subscription plan, Marcus pays less in license fees than they would for annual support from Newmarket.  In addition, CAST integrates directly into Marcus' forecast & budget system.

CAST Installed at Hilton Tucson East
February 27, 2002 - CIA's CAST Sales Automation Solution is installed at the Hilton Tucson East. This marks the first installation of CAST under CIA's new "subscription" based pricing plan. Under this plan, the hotel pays a small annual fee to use CAST rather than paying the full license cost up front. Additional charges for installation, training and annual support are optional.
In this case, the DOS trained her own staff and saved the cost of on site training. Marci Rogers said "I've used CAST at my previous hotel and found it so easy to learn that I decided to do my own training."

New Windows based Preventative Maintenance Software Launched
March 1, 2002 - Computer Ingenuity Associates (www.ciasoft.com) and Tsoftware (www.tsoftware.com) have successfully launched a new MS-Windows based Preventative Maintenance software program specifically for hotels.

CIA releases CAST version 4.3.0 - Now get even more functionality for less
January 22, 2001 - Computer Ingenuity Associates, Inc. began testing today of a new version of its popular CAST Catering And Sales Tracking system.  The release of CAST 4.3.0 includes some exciting new features that continue to position CAST as the low cost leader in complete hotel Sales and Catering systems.  Chris Calia, President of Computer Ingenuity Associates, points out ".while there are other systems that are less expensive and some systems that are more feature intensive, no system provides more functionality for less cost than CAST."

John Q. Hammons hotels to work with CIA on developing Windows based forecasting system
January 16, 2001 - Computer Ingenuity Associates, Inc. announced today that it will be developing a windows version of its FRED - Forecast Revenue and Expense in Detail software for use by John Q. Hammons Hotels.  The FRED software centralizes data from the various Accounting, Sales and Catering, and Payroll systems used at the various Hammons properties.   A task force of Hammons Property Level Managers as well as Corporate Finance and IT personnel will play an active roll in refining the specification of the windows version.  The Windows version of FRED is slated for release in the fall of 2001, following completion of Hammons budgets.