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Technology Leaders CBORD and MICROS - Partnering 20 Years and Counting University, Hospital, and Corporate Dining Segments Enjoy Fully Integrated Cashless Dining Systems at All Customer Touch Points COLUMBIA, Md., April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MICROS Systems, Inc. , a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, and The CBORD Group, Inc., a leading supplier of privilege control solutions for healthcare facilities, corporations and colleges and universities throughout North America, are celebrating 20 years of delivering fully integrated transaction processing for campus, corporate and health care dining establishments. Today, CBORD serves over 600 clients, and its privilege control and cashless systems are robust tools for managing individual and departmental privileges and accounts in any institutional environment. MICROS Systems is a global provider, with hospitality and retail implementations exceeding 150,000. But when the relationship between these two technology leaders began in 1984, business technology was very young. There was no public Internet, the stand-alone PC was just beginning to appear on individual desktops, and networking was a cable to your printer. Today's MICROS point-of-sale solution, with its extensive functionality and intelligence, is vastly different from the company's first CBORD installation. Nevertheless, the objectives remain the same: to streamline and optimize operations to serve customers and clients better while protecting and growing revenue. "Clear focus, continual innovation and consistent profitability have established us as an outstanding leader in the managed services markets of higher education, business and industry, and health care," explained CBORD Vice President, Bruce Lane. "By partnering with MICROS, we have enhanced CBORD's capability with turnkey sales, implementation, and support. And in MICROS, we found a world-class vendor having the interest and capacity to provide high standards of delivery excellence to our marketplace." "We continue to meet each other's mission statements, believing that only by viewing the end user customer as partners can we serve all our stakeholders effectively," noted Alan Hayman, MICROS Executive Vice President. "We're thrilled that a company whose founder, John Alexander, was voted Entrepreneur of the Year by Deloitte & Touche in 2003, is ranked among the top MICROS value added resellers year after year." About The CBORD Group, Inc. CBORD was founded in 1975 to serve the needs of campus auxiliary services. With the introduction of its first campus card system in 1979, CBORD has grown to serve the largest installed base of campus card and cashless systems users across North America, with over 600 clients. CBORD's Odyssey PCS(TM) is its sixth generation campus card system and represents state-of-the-art network and internet-enabled privilege control services. CBORD's Odyssey platform also provides integrated housing management solutions for universities as well as interfaced operations with industry-standard CBORD food management software. The CBORD Group, Inc. is headquartered in Ithaca, New York. To learn more visit CBORD at http://www.cbord.com/ or email us at . About MICROS Systems, Inc. MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 150,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail operations in more than 130 countries, and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 15,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point- of-sale and loss prevention products through it's subsidiary Datavantage for more than 50,000 specialty retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS. For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Director of Marketing at (443) 285-8144 or (800) 638-0985. You can also visit the MICROS website at http://www.micros.com/ or send an email to . The MICROS logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems, Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: MICROS Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Louise Casamento, Director of Marketing of MICROS Systems, Inc., +1-443-285-8144 Web site: http://www.micros.com/ http://www.cbord.com/

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