Michigan State University Goes Live With Skire Unifier

Business Wire, April 16, 2008

Deployment Enables MSU to Reduce Costs, Control Risk, and Standardize on Best Practices Across the Facilities Portfolio

MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software, today announced that Michigan State University (MSU), one of America's top universities, has launched Skire Unifier([TM]) with its internal capital project management team. The university now has leading-edge collaboration capabilities and exceptional control and visibility into individual capital projects and across its project and facilities portfolio. The innovative MSU implementation will eventually extend Unifier's capabilities to the university's Facilities Management and Information Technology (IT) organizations in subsequent phases of the deployment.

MSU is implementing the first phases of its Skire Unifier solution, while simultaneously improving its internal project controls and processes to align with project management best practices. The Skire solution enables MSU to significantly streamline approval processes, control risk, accelerate project completions and closures, and provide executive visibility into project costs, schedules, and reporting.

"We see Unifier as a powerful platform that spans internal and external teams," said Jack Mumma, construction contracts administrator at MSU. "We rely on our contractors, construction managers and design professionals for our projects to succeed, and Unifier's ability to help us standardize and automate important processes is critical. Everyone will have permission-based visibility into project data and documents, status, costs, changes, and schedules. We can closely track project costs and funding sources, which makes auditing and reporting vastly easier."

Unifier will be implemented in several phases, with completion by autumn, 2008. With the ability to integrate with capital project planning early in the project lifecycle, IT can help ensure that MSU's information and communication infrastructure is deployed as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible in new and renovated facilities.

"We are impressed with Michigan State's comprehensive perspective on capital project and facilities management," said John Leet, director of marketing for Skire. "They clearly see the benefit of integrating business process and management workflows across the organization, beyond capital projects alone. We congratulate them on this exciting milestone and anticipate that they will successfully achieve their goals in the next several months."

Skire Unifier is a powerful business process automation platform for managing programs, projects, resources, and assets. The platform centralizes comprehensive management capabilities and makes them available to everyone who needs them through a standard Web browser. With robust cost management and project controls capabilities, Skire's Unifier delivers the best combination of pre-defined workflows, best practices, ease-of-use, and adaptability.

About Skire

Skire, Inc. is the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software. The company's flagship Unifier platform leverages the company's deep industry experience, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over major programs and projects. Skire's solutions are used by global Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions for managing billions of dollars in capital programs, real estate, and IT portfolios. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. For more information, visit http://www.skire.com.

Unifier is a trademark of Skire, Inc. All other products and services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies.