Rearden Commerce, a marketplace for services of all kinds, today announced three new service categories, extending its Total Travel Experience far beyond typical air, car and hotel reservations to provide companies and employees a single online tool for finding, scheduling and purchasing all their business services. New categories introduced today include Airport Parking, Car Service and Event Tickets.

The new services are fully integrated into the Rearden Commerce Network, taking advantage of the Rearden Personal Assistant to coordinate activities within the employee's calendar and provide automatic alerts via phone, email or SMS in the event of any change in plans. The company's unique, next-generation platform utilizes Web Services and is delivered entirely on-demand, enabling Rearden Commerce to deliver new features, service categories and suppliers every few weeks.

Rearden also announced the addition of new suppliers including

- Ground Travel Technology Team (GT3) for car service,
- Global Sports Access and RazorGator for event ticket services and
- Park 'N Fly Network for airport parking.

A New Era In Services Purchasing

Travel and procurement managers have faced significant challenges enforcing expense policies, consuming vendor contracts and leveraging discounted rates because employees go to numerous independent websites to research, purchase and coordinate services. Rearden Commerce is building on its core travel offering to provide a single online marketplace for all types of services, providing companies more effective control over spend and offering employees a simple, streamlined experience.

"Rearden Commerce is rapidly delivering new types of services and new suppliers so employees and businesses will be able to use one site for all their purchasing - from travel and car service to package shipping and airport parking," said Tony D'Astolfo, vice president of travel services for Rearden Commerce. "With a single, simple environment that allows employees to book any service from any device, anytime and anywhere, Rearden Commerce is providing procurement and travel managers a powerful new ability to guide employees to cost-effective choices."

The Rearden Personal Assistant

Because services are deeply intertwined with people's work and personal lives, the Rearden Personal Assistant goes beyond basic purchasing to coordinate schedules, colleagues, services and content on behalf of the user according to his or her identity, organizational role, location and preferences. For example, after an employee books a flight, Rearden Commerce will offer the option to reserve off-airport parking within their travel-planning workflow. This makes it easy for the user to take advantage of the service and helps gently guide employees to cost-saving decisions.

The Rearden Personal Assistant automatically integrates services details into an employee's productivity applications such as Microsoft Outlook or IBM Lotus Notes and leverages e-mail, SMS, fax and telephone to provide alerts to users and their contacts. From a corporate purchasing perspective, the Rearden Commerce Network enables travel and procurement managers to transparently enforce policies at the point of purchase, and empowers them to focus spending on their vendors and suppliers of choice.

New Services Available From Rearden Commerce

Merchants can connect to the Rearden Commerce Network in a matter of hours using Rearden's Services Business Language, the company's groundbreaking library of integration standards. By joining, suppliers immediately gain access to a growing network of more than 500,000 contracted users at both mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies.

"Connecting to the Rearden Commerce Network is a simple process from a technical perspective," said David Grocer, senior vice president of marketing and sales for the Park 'N Fly Network. "And the value of connecting to Rearden Commerce - both for the Park 'N Fly Network and our customers - is clear. We gain access to thousands of customers at the point of purchase, and companies gain a powerful mechanism to encourage employees to take advantage of the cost saving, convenient services available through the Park 'N Fly Network. It is truly a win-win."

Rearden Commerce continues to rapidly add new suppliers and service categories to the Rearden Commerce Network. Details on the services announced today, which the company plans to make available on the network in July 2006, are as follows:

Airport Parking

The Park 'N Fly Network consists of 53 premium airport parking facilities at 45 major airports across the country. Corporate Travel Managers can realize up to 50 percent savings vs. on-airport parking rates in addition to providing their travelers with the best service in the industry. Travelers enjoy frequent shuttles to and from their car, luggage assistance and secure, well-lit lots staffed 24/7. This level of service provides travelers with added peace of mind, especially when returning late at night.

Event Tickets

Global Sports Access has been in the business of event production, management and hospitality for many years. GSA provides turnkey access to the world's most prestigious and exclusive events. With corporate goals in focus, GSA assists companies in choosing the most effective event given timing, budget, location and participants. In addition to the company's extensive access to hard-to-find tickets, GSA's staff helps guide customers through all aspects of organizing events.

RazorGator is the leader in Hard-To-Get tickets for sold-out sports and entertainment events worldwide. RazorGator's 100% guaranteed service empowers its clients by providing them a connection to buy or sell hard-to-get tickets to any event on the planet.

Car Service

Ground Travel Technology Team, Inc. (GT3) provides a fully integrated platform of leading edge products and technologies to automate the ground transportation industry. It is the first and only vendor-neutral infrastructure company to use this technology to deliver advanced reservation and confirmation systems as well as dispatch and accounting systems industry wide.