BIW Launches Web-Based Project Control Application Throughout North America

LONDON, November 30 - Collaboration technology specialist BIW Technologies is opening North
American hosting facilities to provide local support for its expanding user
base across the USA, Canada and the Caribbean islands. Services will be
delivered through a partnership with Sage Construction & Real Estate
Solutions (Sage CRE).

BIW CEO Colin Smith says:

"Increasingly, customers are looking for platforms that will bring
efficiency improvements to their project operations, better integrate their
teams and provide real-time visibility on the health of their projects. There
is also growing demand for a system that provides a high quality of service;
customers are fed up with unreliable systems.

"Operating BIW's web-based project management suite from a North American
infrastructure, managed 24 hours a day, provides a compelling proposition for
customers. BIW's applications are already used by thousands of users in the
worldwide engineering & construction (E&C) sector. Now that we are
integrating our SaaS applications with Sage CRE's market-leading systems,
potential clients in North America will for the first time be able to source
this type of solution from a truly world-class software company.

"We believe that many larger organisations, particularly in North
America, have been waiting for such a shift in the marketplace - giving them
confidence to standardise on a system from the clear market-leader."

Sage CRE

The BIW initiative is in partnership with Sage CRE, whose senior vice
president and general manager, John Geffel, says:

"Sage CRE has a strong leadership position in North America with its
award-winning project management products, but we identified a growing demand
for more Web-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions.

"Our new product offering, Sage Project Lifecycle Management (PLM) was
developed through a partnership with BIW(R) Technologies, a global leader in
web-based business applications. BIW's technology provides clients with
innovative project management platforms that offer extensive financial and
process control features.

"Through this partnership, Sage PLM can help the North American
construction industry focus on increasing productivity, collaboration and
accountability among all parties."

BIW's application suite readily adapts for deployment in one-off projects
and programs of work in many industries, including retail, real estate,
utilities, finance, infrastructure, power, health and education.

For further information please contact:

    - Paul Wilkinson (pwcom.co.uk Ltd) Tel: +44(0)20-8858-1104,
      mobile +44(0)77-8844-5920, email paul.wilkinson@pwcom.co.uk
    - Colin Smith (BIW CEO) Tel: +44(0)1483-712620

Paul Wilkinson (pwcom.co.uk Ltd) Tel: +44(0)20-8858-1104, mobile +44(0)77-8844-5920, email paul.wilkinson at pwcom.co.uk; Colin Smith (BIW CEO) Tel: +44(0)1483-712620