The fans that followed their team during the 1994 Soccer World Cup should be ever thankful to Atos Origin. Because of the reservations system we designed, they were able to book hotel rooms in the city where their own team played.

Atos Origin was chosen in 1993 by the World Cup Accommodation Bureau (WCAB) to provide the accommodation management system for the tournament.

The system, named Check In' 94, was the biggest reservations system ever built, according to the WCAB. It had to be flexible, taking into account visitors' preferences, specific team followers and last minute decisions based upon match results.

Facts and figures:

• 9 cities
• 675 hotels
• 2,000,000 room-nights
• Peak period: over 10,000 people were accommodated
  between 14 and 17 July (9,400 of them in Los Angeles).