OSIsoft Announces Consulting Partnership With EnteGreat; Customers to Optimize Real-Time Operational Performance and Efficiency to Achieve Cost Savings

Business Wire, June 23, 2004

SAN LEANDRO, Calif. -- OSIsoft, the leader in Real-time Performance Management (RtPM) software, today announced a new consulting partnership with EnteGreat, a manufacturing consulting and systems integration company serving primarily Fortune 500 manufacturing companies. Through the partnership, enterprise customers now have access to OSIsoft's RtPM platform and EnteGreat's industry and business process expertise, combined to identify the best ways to integrate, organize and use real-time information in context with their existing ERP and other transactional IT systems in order to make the most intelligent and profitable business decisions.

"OSIsoft is a valuable technology partner for EnteGreat as we strive to provide clients with proven, market-leading technology that will offer the most beneficial impact on their business success," says Rob Gellings, president of EnteGreat. "OSIsoft's RtPM software platform is fast to deploy and easy to integrate with existing IT infrastructures, which enables our clients to immediately capture, analyze, distribute and visualize real-time information to address key manufacturing issues such as manufacturing performance, visibility and real-time manufacturing quality."

"More importantly, OSIsoft is one of the first companies in this space to come to market with a true "enterprise" model for deploying their product, as opposed to the traditional plant-by-plant approach, which can create plant-centric, non-standard islands of information across a company. The capability to put together a true enterprise-wide real-time data management architecture is increasingly important to our Fortune 500 clients, who are searching for ways to support compliance, IT governance, centralized systems, and standardized business processes and metrics across their businesses," Gellings adds.

EnteGreat will be able to leverage OSIsoft's RtPM platform to deliver complete solutions for real-time performance management. With OSIsoft's technology, customers see a more complete picture of their entire operation. The RtPM software can incorporate and visually display customized, real-time event data, enabling customers to utilize real-time information to create competitive advantages and improve enterprise and operational performance, increasing revenue and reducing costs. EnteGreat will provide OSIsoft's RtPM solutions to clients in key growth industries including pulp and paper, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and chemicals. As a Gold Partner, EnteGreat will have access to OSIsoft's training courses, marketing support and OSIsoft technology strategists and engineers.

"EnteGreat has a solid reputation of providing its customers with advanced solutions through its partnerships with industry-leading software and technology companies," said Michael Saucier, vice president of Marketing, OSIsoft. "Through our partnership, EnteGreat will be able to leverage OSIsoft's real-time and industry expertise to further enhance their capabilities in key process manufacturing industries to help customers realize the value of their investments."

About EnteGreat

Through manufacturing consulting and systems integration, EnteGreat serves primarily Fortune 500 manufacturing companies across North America. Rather than offering just technical solutions, the EnteGreat team is focused on helping clients implement supply chain and manufacturing IT systems that deliver measurable business outcomes from the project conception stage to world-wide rollout. The company helps its clients develop and implement continuous improvement strategies for both manufacturing and supply chain operations that are facilitated by information systems solutions.

EnteGreat is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, with operations in staff across North America.

About OSIsoft

OSIsoft delivers the world's leading operational Real-time Performance Management (RtPM) Platform. This Platform crosses enterprise boundaries to incorporate and visually display user-configured, real-time operational event data, fueling the business decision cycle to drive collaboration and intelligent actions. More than 10,000 OSIsoft customers worldwide use RtPM as the foundation to continuously improve the performance of their organization. RtPM unlocks the hidden value in these systems by delivering high-fidelity information for real-time action. The company's fierce commitment to customer satisfaction is unparalleled in the industry. For more than 20 years, customers have trusted OSIsoft's breakthrough products, including the PI System, to preserve and harness real-time data. Only OSIsoft's RtPM Platform provides an end-to-end experience -- from problem identification, through cause-and-effect determination and ultimately to resolution/ implementation -- supporting both tactical and strategic modes of operation.

Founded in 1980, OSIsoft Inc. is headquartered in San Leandro, Calif., with operations worldwide and is privately-held.

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