Hilversum, The Netherlands, September 8, 2008 – NEC Philips Unified Solutions and Tiger Communications have announced a partnership in bringing an extended portfolio of Hospitality solutions to the market.

This partnership will enable NEC Philips to further strengthen its Hospitality market drive, offering hotels and hotel-chains a richer choice of specialized solutions.

NEC Philips is targeting further growth in this sector and has been expanding its centre of excellence to meet the most advanced needs.

Tiger Communications is a market leader in the provision of Call Management Solutions with a customer base that spans many types of organisations, including hotels, universities, councils, solicitors, financial institutions and manufacturers.

Tiger Communications is based in the United Kingdom, and has offices in Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Dubai and Mexico.

Simon Udell, Global Hospitality Solutions Director at Tiger Communications comments: “Thanks to the comprehensive partner-community of NEC Philips Unified Solutions, the 200.000 hotels across EMEA can now take advantage of NEC Philips’ robust and state of the art communications solutions, enhanced with the PMS interface of Tiger Communications inclusive of call accounting. This partnership extends our market reach considerably, and offers customers a wider and better choice.”

Kees van Donk, Director Hospitality EMEA of NEC Philips adds enthusiastically: “Based on the rich functionalities of the Tiger middle-ware application, we can now also offer our partners and end-users in EMEA an easy to implement Hospitality Telephony solution.”