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STARCITE STRATEGIC MEETINGS MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Gain insight into meeting spend organization-wide. Manage your meetings better. Build lasting relationships with customers and suppliers across the entire event lifecycle.

Active Network offers a full suite of cloud-based strategic meetings management (SMM) technology to automate every part of your meeting, planning, and procurement process.

A well-executed strategic meetings management program – backed by Active Network’s StarCite technology – enables companies to achieve major meetings management goals, for example:

•Limittheriskofnon-compliancetospendingguidelinesandpolicies

•Consolidatemeetingsdataandspendorganization-wide

•Ensurecorporatecontractualtermsandconditionsareattached to supplier contracts

•Build,enforceandtrackapreferredvendorprogramtoincrease negotiation leverage

•Streamlinemeetingplanningwhilegainingsavingsandresultswith with online registration, e-marketing and attendee engagement tools.

StarCite is built with the innovation and agility required to meet the full spectrum of corporate meeting program needs as they evolve – from early-stage initiatives to large, complex, multinational strategic meetings management programs. Get more from your meetings data by including StarCite’s Business Intelligence platform in your strategic meetings management program (SMMP). And, if you’re integrating meetings data with other technology systems, StarCite’s Integration tool lets you drag and drop information fields to easily populate one system from another.

“StarCite drives efficiency and almost automates the process...[it] collates, compares, and contrasts the [RFP] responses.”

Paul Wakelin, Global Deployment Manager of IBM Integrated Supply Chain, The Business Travel Magazine, March/April 2012

StarCite customers routinely save from 10 to 25% on their meeting spend.

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STARCITE STRATEGIC MEETINGS MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

Americas: 1.888.351.9948 | Europe: +44 (0) 207.313.5742eventsdivision@activenetwork.com | www.activeevents.com | www.starcite.com

The Active Network DifferenceActive Network, Business Solutions offers leading edge technology to power anysizeortypeofmeetingorevent,withmanagementsolutionsforeverypartof the event lifecycle – from managing logistics and operations, to controlling meeting spend, deepening engagement with attendees and measuring results.

Active Network’s industry expertise derives from our experience working with allsizesofcompanies,includingthousandsofsmallbusinesses,thelargestof the Fortune 500 and 50% of Business Travel News’s top 100 companies. Formed in 1999, Active Network operates more than 25 offices around the world and has 3,300-plus employees.

I have planned several events in the past year that had six figure budgets or above and the work that [StarCite] takes off my plate is amazing. We can source many more properties, broker discounts and contract exceptions, and ensure my compliance with any corporate riders or addendums to contract…In short it saves me time, money, and helps me ensure I am compliant with company policy.Meetings Sponsor, Global Technology Company

With StarCite’s consolidated SMM platform, meetings, travel, procurement and financial professionals can more easily:

Manage •Plan for Meetings–viacentralizedonlinerequest,approvalandcalendarportal for all meetings and events

•Manage Budgets – including forecasting costs, tracking savings, setting up multiple budgets for a single meeting

•Manage Attendees – by managing sessions, arranging travel, and tracking attendees to manage risk and provide for security

Automate•Electronically Source – from tens of thousands of suppliers online

Engage•Promote Meetings – by engaging and communicating with attendees throughout the entire meeting lifecycle

Control•Manage Financials – by consolidating invoices, reducing check-cutting costs via card payments, reconciling costs against budgets

•Access and Utilize Comprehensive Meetings Data – via central reporting dashboards, enabling higher compliance and ROI tracking