Metropolis PRESS RELEASE PROFITWATCH HOTEL CALL ACCOUNTING SELECTED FOR STARWOOD'S THE NINES FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Sep 3, 2008-- Metropolis, a leading provider of call accounting and telemanagement solutions for the hospitality industry, is pleased to announce that ProfitWatch Hotel Call Accounting has been selected for use at Starwood’s new luxury property, The Nines, located in Portland, Oregon. The Nines implemented the Web version of ProfitWatch, which allows an unlimited number of authorized users access to ProfitWatch’s features and reports via the Internet. The Nines will open in October 2008 as part of Starwood’s prestigious Luxury Collection brand and occupies the top nine floors of the historic Meier & Frank Building in downtown Portland. Sage Hospitality is the project’s developer and incorporated several conservation building elements, such as a specialized plumbing system that will save more than 500,000 gallons of water per year and renewable wind source energy to power the hotel. During construction, 90% of the construction waste was recycled or reused. Metropolis has been a provider of call accounting and telemanagement software for businesses and the hospitality industry since 1993, with several thousand installations throughout North America, the Caribbean and Latin America. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Metropolis provides ProfitWatch Hotel Call Accounting and OfficeWatch Call Accounting for Business directly to end-users and select resellers globally. |