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Extensity and ontheroad.com Help Employees Find Best-of-the-Best for Business Travel

Extensity, Inc. and ontheroad.com today announced a new partnership to provide ontheroad.com’s travel-related information services to Extensity’s customers. The exclusive arrangement is the first of its kind, combining Extensity’s leading travel management automation software with ontheroad.com’s extensive city-by-city intelligence to offer business travelers the ultimate in productivity and convenience.


Covering 11 major destination cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, New York, London, and San Francisco, ontheroad.com’s fast-growing information services provide the best restaurants in town for both business and pleasure, in addition to business and sporting events, theatrical productions, concerts, and museum exhibits scheduled during the traveler’s visit. All content is hand-selected by ontheroad.com’s editorial staff and maintained on a daily basis.


“This partnership represents another step forward in our goal of delivering value-added services and content within the context of our application suite. We are pleased to be working with ontheroad.com to deliver everything a customer needs for a productive business trip,” said Bob Spinner, Extensity President and CEO.


Extensity will offer ontheroad.com’s Snapshots, Business Events and Art of the Deal products to existing and future customers of the Extensity e-Business Application Suite, with ontheroad.com content available through a link in the Extensity interface. Extensity’s e-Business Application Suite leverages Internet technology to help employees automate everyday business processes, including expense reporting, travel planning, procurement and billable time capture. Today, Extensity serves more than 55 customers across leading industry sectors including financial services, manufacturing, technology, government and utilities.


“Whether they’re entertaining business associates or unwinding after a long day, business travelers use our Snapshots and other information products to find the best in arts, entertainment, and dining that these great cities have to offer,” said ontheroad.com CEO Malcolm E.A. Kaufman. “Together with Extensity, we offer these individuals everything they need for an enjoyable and productive business trip.”

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ontheroad.com provides employees with information about major destination cities to help create a more productive and enjoyable travel experience. ontheroad.com products include Snapshots, a brief overview of a city’s restaurants and events for the coming four weeks; Business Events, a summary of important business events; Art of the Deal, a guide to the top three restaurants in a city to court a client, negotiate, and celebrate a deal; and Weekly Email Alerts covering the coming week’s highlights for a member’s home city. The company’s database, which is refreshed daily, currently contains more than 700 Insider Tips; 600 restaurants; 10,000 entertainment, sports, and business events; and 200 first-rate business services, all hand-selected. Information is presented in a format that can be readily printed or downloaded to desktop computers and PDAs, and is available 24 hours a day.

About ontheroad.com
ontheroad.com is the leading provider of information and services to the business travel market. The company’s Web site (http://www.ontheroad.com) is specifically designed to provide efficient access to an insider’s network of business services, restaurants and entertainment options organized by city and by week with a six-month forward calendar. About Extensity
Extensity, Inc. is the leader in Internet applications for the e-business employee. Through an integrated suite of applications, Extensity radically transforms the way companies do business by automating everyday processes to optimize productivity and business results. Today Extensity addresses expense reporting, business travel, billable time capture and procurement. Extensity customers include Franklin Resources, Incyte Pharmaceuticals, International Home Foods, Reltec, University of California and the @Home Network. For more information on Extensity, go to www.extensity.com.


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