Pavilion Technologies' Pavilion8™ Platform Achieves ''Powered by SAP NetWeaver®'' Certification; Integrated Pavilion8™ Solution Improves Manufacturing Profitability

Business Wire, Feb 8, 2006

AUSTIN, Texas -- Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in model-based software, today announced its Pavilion8(TM) platform has achieved "Powered by SAP NetWeaver(R)" certification. Leveraging the most powerful modeling technology in the industry, Pavilion8 integrated with the SAP NetWeaver platform, will enable manufacturers to proactively drive production processes to improve their profitability.

Pavilion8-powered solutions align production processes with business targets to quickly respond to market demands, continuously drive down costs and consistently achieve quality targets. Pavilion8 uses an embedded predictive modeling engine to define, maintain and execute performance metrics that provide accurate and future insight into key operational processes. The solution allows business managers, plant management and process engineers to tie metrics to action, putting the best decisions into effect quickly to maximize business opportunity.

"For 15 years, Pavilion Technologies has been the leader in the development and deployment of predictive models to control and optimize complex industrial processes," said Matt Tormollen, vice president and chief marketing officer, Pavilion Technologies. "Through the integration of Pavilion8 with SAP NetWeaver, more accurate production, capacity and cost information will now be available to enhance decision making."

Pavilion Technologies is consistently recognized for the strength of its modeling technology. In the November 21, 2005 AMR Research report called "SAP Plus Lighthammer Equals xMII," Colin Masson stated, "Pavilion Technologies, for example, provides proven model management that integrates online process models with model-based calculations to deliver predictive operational metrics."

The Pavilion8 platform is built on a modern software infrastructure leveraging a J2EE-based service-oriented architecture and browser-based interaction. Pavilion8 version 1.0 is integrated with the SAP NetWeaver Application Server Release 6.40 and provides access to role-based views via the SAP NetWeaver Portal Release 6.0.

About Pavilion Technologies (www.pavtech.com)

Pavilion Technologies' model-based software drives profitability for leading manufacturers like Cemex, Dyckerhoff AG, Glacial Lakes Energy, NOVA Chemicals, Nestle, SABIC Europe and TOTAL Petrochemicals. Based on the most powerful predictive modeling software in the industry, Pavilion's solutions facilitate quick response to market demands, continuous reduction of costs, consistent achievement of quality targets, and enhanced air quality. With a commitment to delivering the highest ROI in the industry, Pavilion's ValueFirst(TM) customer engagement methodology ensures Predictable Results. Guaranteed (R).

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