Company History Datavision Technologies was established in 1996 by Sherry Marek and Sudharshan Chary, with the primary goal of bringing a data warehousing/business intelligence system to the hospitality industry. Headquartered in the Fort Lauderdale area in Florida, Datavision is well respected in the hospitality industry with several major hotel companies as customers-Intrawest Resorts, American Skiing Company, InterContinental Hotels, Interstate Hotels, Raffles Hotels & Resorts, etc. Initial installations in 1997 included South Seas Resorts and the Los Angeles InterContinental Hotel. Today, Datavision has almost a hundred installations throughout the United States and Canada - from large resorts and spas to downtown business properties to multi-property installations where the system is used to track performance across the enterprise. Sherry has about 15 years of experience in the hotel industry, having worked for Hilton International and InterContinental Hotels before co-founding Datavision. At Hilton International, Sherry worked at hotels and then moved to corporate, where she traveled around the world installing front office systems, training hotel personnel and setting up regional training courses. At InterContinental Hotels, Sherry was in charge of the front office, marketing and sales & catering systems. Before leaving in 1996, she successfully rolled out a CRM called Global 2000 which collected data from all front office systems in the company into a corporate reporting solution. Sherry has written numerous articles for the industry magazines and presented sessions at conferences on business intelligence.  Sudharshan also worked at InterContinental Hotels, where he was part of a team that created a client/server based Central Reservations System for use at all 100+ hotels around the world. Currently overseeing Datavision's sales efforts, he also delivers presentations at HITEC, HUG and other industry events on using data warehousing for effective business intelligence. Philosophy: We set out to create a data warehouse for the hospitality industry.  According to our ground rules, the system had to:      • be extremely easy to use, but also be feature rich and powerful.      • have cutting technology, yet be able to run on inexpensive hardware.      • be easy to manage, but grow with you as your information need grew.      • seamlessly integrate into Microsoft Excel®. We ended up with DVEnterprise, an exciting combination of art and science. DVEnterprise provides you with an intuitive Excel based graphical front end, backed by an industrial strength data warehouse. Extremely scalable, DVEnterprise can be used at the property level and at corporate/regional offices to view data consolidated from many properties. We believe it's the most exciting product to hit the market in a while, we think you will agree.