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Cendant Polishing Up Ramada Brand

PARSIPPANY, NJ—November 9, 2004—Central to the Cendant plan to reignite the Ramada brand is an overhaul of its quality control processes. In the next week, Cendant is expected to announce a new initiative, dubbed Positive Guest Experience, under which its 881 North American franchisees will be given real-time online access to all quality assurance reports culled from a new electronic guest-satisfaction survey system. All franchisees will be on the system by January.

Coupled with the new online system, enabled with software from Medallia, Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif., supplier, is a stepped-up effort to expunge franchisees with what Cendant called substandard properties from the system. The company raised the passing score on its quality test from 400 to 435; a perfect score is 500.

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Medallia (www.medallia.com), the global leader in SaaS customer experience and enterprise feedback management, provides solutions to Global 2000 companies. More than 50,000 businesses and business units around the world use the Medallia system to track customer satisfaction. Medallia’s solutions enable companies to gather, monitor, and act on feedback from customers, partners, and employees. Customers include global financial services, retail, high-tech, business-to-business, and hotel companies. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley.

For more information about Medallia’s Customer Feedback Management services or platform, visit www.medallia.com.