PHILADELPHIA, PA and Foster City, CA – Rearden Commerce, Inc. today announced an integration relationship with StarCite, Inc., a leading provider of Web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events. With this integration, Rearden Commerce’s more than 5,000 corporate customers will have increased visibility into employees’ meetings spend and can leverage real-time data to better manage this often overlooked spend category.

“Meetings remain a large category of unmanaged spend for corporations. At Rearden Commerce our goal is to provide customers with a single location for all activities that relate to travel and procurement. As such, StarCite is a perfect addition for the Rearden Commerce™ Platform,” said Tony D’Astolfo, vice president of worldwide sales, Rearden Commerce. “We make it a priority to connect our customers with the absolute best applications and services available on the market. StarCite’s track record of providing strategic meetings management services to major corporate customers makes them an ideal partner for this essential functionality.”

Directly from the Rearden Personal Assistant™, customers will be able to access StarCite to plan, source and book with its small meetings solution. In addition, customers benefit from full access to the StarCite Marketplace, which links meetings buyers with more than 93,000 hotels, venues and meetings suppliers worldwide.

Rearden Commerce is highly regarded in the travel industry for developing a platform that broadens the traditional scope of travel management to include ancillary spend categories such as conferencing, dining, shipping, and rail.

“We are proud to partner with Rearden Commerce and provide strategic meetings management services to its customer base,” said Gregory Dukat, CEO of StarCite. “Rearden Commerce has revolutionized travel management by providing a product that brings a growing number of spend categories under professional control. As companies focus on maximizing the value of every type of expenditure, including meetings, the timing of this integration couldn’t be better.”