WALLDORF, Germany - June 29, 2006 - SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) announced today that the company has expanded its worldwide leadership as the number one enterprise software vendor, based on market share numbers. Gartner Dataquest, a division of Gartner, Inc., the leading provider of research and analysis on global information technology, issued three reports on June 7th, June 8th and June 12th, 2006 analyzing the status of the worldwide enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM) and supply chain management (SCM) market. Based on the new metric of total software revenue, SAP ranks number one in all three enterprise software markets. In addition, SAP now has the largest market share in the ERP - Enterprise Asset Management segment.

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announced today that Nucor Steel Decatur, LLC, a division of Nucor Corporation, the largest steel producer and recycler in the United States, has signed a contract to implement IFS Applications™ 7 business software. The Alabama facility becomes the second Nucor plant to switch to IFS Applications. Nucor’s plant in Jewett, Texas, went live with an IFS business solution in 2005.

“IFS Applications gives us a solid enterprise asset management solution that will enable us to increase asset availability, improve efficiency, and reduce asset lifecycle costs,” said Chad Potter, division controller for Nucor Steel Decatur. “The IFS solution will provide much greater visibility to key business information throughout the enterprise, enabling us to improve ongoing business operations.”

Impress Software, a leading provider of packaged integration applications for SAP Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Enterprise Project Management (EPM) customers, today announced that Bombardier Aerospace has selected Impress to integrate Microsoft Project and SAP to manage maintenance scheduling and visibility across its Aircraft Services centers.

Partnership enables plants to run Meridium’s Asset Performance Management (APM) solutions on any device and integrate with any enterprise system

June 15, 2006 - Roanoke, VA, USA - Meridium Inc., the leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, announces today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Dexterra, of Bothell, WA, USA. Under this partnership, Meridium and Dexterra will deliver complete mobile enterprise solutions to plants seeking to improve communication, reduce paperwork and increase efficiency and accuracy by automating field tasks and analysis. 

Infor, one of the largest global providers of enterprise software, today announced plans to upgrade and enhance the Infor MP2® asset management solution.  This announcement, along with the recent release of Datastream 7i v. 7.10, the industry’s leading web-architected asset performance management solution, continues Infor’s commitment to providing the industry’s most comprehensive and functionally rich asset management solutions.

Infor MP2 delivers the functionality businesses need to keep their assets operating at peak performance while keeping operational costs to a minimum, all in an affordable and easy-to-deploy client/server package. 

CHICAGO, June 13 /PRNewswire/—IFS has signed a contract with Oracle USA, Inc., to provide the maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) portion of an integrated logistics system that Oracle is delivering to the U.S. Air Force. In accordance with the Oracle contract, the system will support 250,000 users of the Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) program.

ECSS is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software system established to improve weapons systems availability by streamlining the current Air Force logistics process. The system will replace and perform the functions of more than 500 logistics systems that the Air Force currently uses.

Meridium, Inc., the leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, today announced plans for a Meridium implementation at Braskem, the leading petrochemical company in Latin America. Braskem operates 14 petrochemical plants with a production capacity of more than 5 million tons per year of chemical and petrochemical products.

Over the next year, Meridium will provide software and services to implement its APM solution at Braskem to reduce cost and equipment downtime, extend shutdown intervals, and optimize PM schedules through sustainable reliability work processes.

MOSCOW (RNWire) - IBS, the leader in the Russian IT and consulting market has announced the completion of a project to develop and commission a Plant Maintenance Management System (PMMS) at OOO Tyumentransgaz, the world’s largest gas transportation enterprise. Plant support and maintenance procedures are key business practices for OOO Tyumentransgaz, ensuring working capacity of basic production assets, including: gas-main pipelines; gas compressor stations; electrochemical protection facilities; teleautomatic devices, and electrical machinery.

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CWORKS Systems Bhd, creator of the CWorks Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) software suite, has signed a memorandum of understanding with OMCS Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd to jointly market their products and services. 

OMCS Pty Ltd director Stephen Turner said his company would provide the strategic planning for corporations and agencies implementing CWorks software packages. 

OMCS provides reliability assurance processes, systems and services, including training for professional certification around the world.

SPL WorldGroup continues to demonstrate their commitment to customer needs with their introduction of the latest asset and work management product release to water services professionals at the American Water Works Association’s Annual Conference & Exposition (ACE), June 11-15, 2006 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

At Booth #2307 of the ACE06 Exhibition, conference attendees will have the opportunity to experience new functionality included in Release 1.7.5 of SPL’s Enterprise Asset & Work Management (EAM) solution. The EAM release is a direct result of customer involvement and feedback, reflecting a continuation of SPL’s “intelligent evolution” product development philosophy.