Powering Great Events

Certain provides innovative software solutions for meeting and event professionals to help streamline processes, control costs, drive attendance, and improve overall value of meetings and events.

Over 1,800 customers are using Certain’s solutions around the world to improve the return on time, money, and resources invested in meetings and events – from small meetings and educational sessions, to large conferences and world events.

Strategic Meetings Management

Certain’s Strategic Meetings Management solution helps corporations and other large organizations gain visibility into meeting spend, establish policies for meetings across the enterprise, and measure the return on investment of meetings based on business objectives. Meetings professionals who are implementing a Strategic Meetings Management Program (SMMP) have the ability to effectively gain control and organize meetings throughout the organization, achieving significant cost savings and rapid return on investment. By tracking meetings from proposal to actual spend, organizations can save money and make better decisions regarding which events to fund in the future.

Sourcing & Procurement

Certain’s Sourcing and Procurement solution empowers meeting planners and procurement professionals to select the most cost-effective suppliers for their meetings, allowing control over site selection and providing cost savings through better supplier negotiations. Procurement departments can ensure that all supplier negotiation activity in the organization is tracked in a single place, allowing for greater accountability controls and enterprise-wide reporting on savings and spend per vendor.

Marketing & Communications

Certain’s Event Marketing and Communications solutions give event marketers and meeting planners the right solution to increase attendance at events, encourage early registration, keep attendees and other participants informed, segment targeted mailing lists for invitation management, engage sponsors, and store pre-defined email templates for use in marketing campaigns and event coordination.

Registration & Attendee Management

Attendees expect a smooth experience for every event and meeting they attend. With Certain’s Registration and Attendee Management, meeting planners and event organizers can save time by collecting all attendee details and registrations online. Planners can build registration forms that accurately capture registrant details while personalizing the registration experience. Through Certain’s connections to common e-commerce systems, payment is secure, easy, and fast. Once attendees are in the system, Certain’s reporting and data management solutions allow meeting and event planners to manipulate data, print badges, and check-in registrants on-site or before the event.

Accommodation & Travel

Successful meetings and events depend on participants getting to the location smoothly. With Certain’s Accommodation and Travel solutions, meeting planners and event organizers save time by collecting housing and flight preferences online. Behind the scenes, our powerful systems take care of managing inventory and producing up-to-date rooming lists that make it easy to coordinate with travel agents, hoteliers, and other suppliers. Using Certain Software’s available connections to external booking and GDS systems, meeting planners can also keep the event database in synch with real-time reservation information, making arrival and departure transfer arrangements effortless.

Speakers & Exhibitors

Certain’s Speaker and Exhibition solutions provide the ability for event organizers and meeting planners to manage important areas of medium to large-sized events. The Certain Speaker management solution automates and organizes the process of issuing a call for papers, abstract management, reviewer scoring, and session scheduling. With our Exhibition management solution, event managers gain control over sales of booth or floor space, booking exhibitor appointments, keeping checklists for booth requirements, and more.

Financials & Reporting

Certain’s Budgeting and Reporting solutions give meeting planners and event organizers the ability to access key data instantly. Using our one-click system reports, users can generate useful and attractive reports for registration, function, hotel, travel, finance and much more. Advanced users can take advantage of our customization capabilities to tailor reports for every need. With Certain’s Budgeting solution, meeting planners will find it easy to track projected and actual expenditures, project expected income, and track financial results of all kinds.

Continuing Education

Certain’s Continuing Education solutions help colleges and training institutions manage continuing education programs, conferences, and seminars with technology solutions that make complex tasks easier. With the ability to track attendee history, apply professional development credits per session as well as target attendees for future programs, Certain’s Continuing Education solutions offer a complete solution for educational programs. It helps manage course schedules and online course registration and payments, manage resources, rooms, and instructor allocations, track grades and attendance, and offers students and instructors a powerful web portal for all their continuing education needs.