MELBOURNE,
Australia – May 21, 2007 – The Active Network, Inc. (Active), a leading
provider of application services technology and marketing solutions for
community service and participatory sports organisations, announced today that
it has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia.
With over 700 employees
and 12 offices worldwide, Active serves organisations and participants in
multiple markets throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and across Europe. Active provides a breadth of service offerings and is a
trusted technology provider for over 55,000 worldwide sports events, leagues,
tournaments, councils, universities, parks, recreation and aquatics facilities,
and other leisure-based organisations. Through its range of software and
technology solutions, Active has successfully raised awareness and participation
for organisations of all sizes, increased efficiency, reduced the cost and
complexity of managing daily administration and saved staff and consumers time
by automating paper-based processes.
In response to a growing interest
in Australia for Active’s technology, Active’s presence offers software to
manage leisure centres, parks, recreation and aquatic facilities, real-time data
management, on-line registration for participatory sports events and
organisations, state-of-the-art on-line fundraising support and customer
service.
“We are excited by the growing market opportunities in Australia
and believe there is huge potential to expand Active’s role in servicing
organisations with our technology,” explained Sejal Pietrzak, vice president for
Active International. “As the established leader in the industry, we are excited
to bring our expertise and trusted software and data management capabilities to
Australia. Opening an office in Melbourne demonstrates Active’s commitment to
the Australian market and to working with both existing and new Australian
customers.”
Currently, Active provides online registration and database
management to over 130 participatory sports events and tournaments in Australia
and manages technology solutions for leisure, recreation and aquatics facilities
and organisations.
The Active Network’s new office is located
at:
Pacific Tower (suite 3.03)
737 Burwood Road
Hawthorn, VIC
3122
For more information, visit
www.activenetwork.com.au or call 03 8862 6358.
