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Outtask Enhances Traveler Lodging Selection Through Integration of Microsoft MapPoint Web Service and Cliqbook

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- Outtask, Inc., one of the nation's leading providers of "Software as a Service" for travel and expense management solutions, today announced the international availability of location based intelligence for hotel properties into its Travel Management Solution, Cliqbook(TM).

Cliqbook is Outtask's answer to the on-line booking component of the total corporate travel and expense ecosystem. By integrating maps, driving directions, distance calculators and proximity searching capabilities, Cliqbook simplifies logistics for global travelers preparing for their next business trip.

Unlike traditional hotel selection methods, Cliqbook leverages a custom-built world-wide hotel database and Microsoft MapPoint Web Service to deliver an easy to use online tool for travelers to quickly access hotels and points of interests around the world, including street-level maps and driving directions to hotels.

The increased functionality also enables users to further customize their trip when booking travel online. In addition to pinpointing hotels around their destination address, such as a company location, landmark, or airport, they can also do the following:

* Choose a destination address or specified company location on which to base their hotel search

* Rank available hotels by corporate preference and distance from the destination

* Pinpoint hotels on a map relative to landmarks such as finding hotels within certain distances to the Eiffel Tower, Ponte Vecchio, Statue of Liberty, or Sydney Opera House

"Microsoft .NET provides a highly productive and robust environment for building Web service based applications," said Tom DePasquale, president and CEO of Outtask. "The MapPoint Web Service is the best mapping and location based platform available for our customers."

"We're pleased that Outtask is using the MapPoint Web Service as an enabling platform to deliver new services to their customers," said Michael Graff, general manager of the MapPoint business unit. "Cliqbook and the MapPoint Web Service together demonstrate the power of Web-based services for both consumer and enterprise applications."

"As both a provider and consumer of Web services, Outtask delivers a deeply integrated Travel and Expense Management ecosystem that aggregates and presents customized data to our customers, making their operations more productive and cost-effective," added DePasquale. "In addition, our Web-based T&E deployment addresses the volatile changes in today's market."

About Outtask, Inc.
An innovator in web applications and services, Outtask, Inc. is a provider of "Software as a Service," delivering employee-facing applications to companies in the areas of travel, expense and recruiting management. Customers around the globe leverage Outtask's expertise, market-leading solutions, data management, and professional services to achieve efficiencies, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive overall savings to an organization's bottom line. Customer and partner successes, technology innovation and acclaimed best practices have earned Outtask recognition as an industry leader.

For more information about Outtask, Inc., please visit http://www.outtask.com or contact Ross Atkinson at 703-837-6100 x4017 (Ross.Atkinson@outtask.com ).

Outtask, Cliqbook, and Vinnet are registered trademarks of Outtask, Inc., in the United States. Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.