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WingateWeb Announces Next-Generation Cross-Event Management Software Solution

Lindon, UT - April 25, 2006 - WingateWeb, the leading provider of event management software, today announced WingateWeb Event Console 1.5, the next-generation offering of its software solution that provides companies and associations with a consolidated system for management across a full range of events.

The Event Console 1.5 represents a quantum leap in the industry by incorporating many new features to centralize all event data, enabling companies to gain new insight into their audiences and gauge the value of their event-based marketing efforts. The new WingateWeb solution provides sales and marketing teams with enhanced lead generation, scheduling, registration, content management, and reporting capabilities. This functionality enables companies and associations to reduce overhead costs and quickly harvest data into targeted leads.

The Event Console 1.5 is an integrated management platform that provides data consolidation and meeting management across all events. The system provides an easy-to-use registration feature, an event directory, basic content management, partner management and detailed analytical reporting. WingateWeb’s award-winning Conference offering can be integrated into the Event Console 1.5 for management of large conferences and trade shows that require deep and complex feature sets.

The new product provides all event stakeholders with an improved event experience. Event Console 1.5’s online registration feature offers companies customized branding with the look and feel of their company, unlimited registration paths that allow each attendee a different registration experience, unlimited profile questions to better understand their audience, and unlimited price points based on each audience. The Event Console 1.5 also offers credit card processing, simple badge creation and check-in, the ability for attendees to login and manage their participation, and single sign-on support so attendees can enjoy a single point of access across all events.

The Event Console 1.5’s administrative tools give users the ability to manage hundreds of concurrent events, maintain up-to-date opportunities for event partners, and manage equipment, staff and other dependencies for an entire event program. The solution can also support multiple languages for each data field, create security roles to minimize access for certain groups, easy registration setup from scratch, and the ability to copy similar or previous events. In addition, administrators can upload, manage and publish presentations.

“Event planners are seeking to a use a consolidated platform to manage their entire schedule of events,” said Tom Karren, general manager of WingateWeb. “WingateWeb Event Console 1.5 delivers a powerful feature set that can easily be adapted to multiple unique events or repeatable events. By leveraging a single database to manage interactions with attendees, prospective attendees, partners, and employees, the system offers the ability to seize business opportunities and measure return.”

About WingateWeb
WingateWeb is the leader in event data management technology and professional services. With emphasis on leveraging all event data using a single database, WingateWeb’s technology offers comprehensive solutions to complex event challenges. The WingateWeb software platform was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement in Innovation in Business Solutions from the International Association for Exhibition Management (IAEM) in 2004. Additionally, WingateWeb offers powerful technology for cross-event management. Current clients include many Fortune 500 companies who demand leading-edge technology solutions their events. WingateWeb is headquartered in Lindon, Utah. For more information about WingateWeb, please visit www.wingateweb.com.