Meridian Systems Announces Webinar on Using Business Intelligence to Optimize Capital Projects and Facilities


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FOLSOM, Calif., April 3 / -- Meridian Systems(R), a provider of enterprise project management software for optimizing capital projects, programs and facilities, announced today a new webinar entitled Using Business Intelligence to Optimize Capital Projects, Programs and Facilities. This new webinar provides insight into the Business Intelligence (BI) market space, and features insights from Gartner research vice president, Bill Hostmann.

Corporate real estate, construction and facilities executives will receive an overview from Mr. Hostmann on BI technology and how they apply within today's corporate environment. Bruno Berti, sr. director of product line management at Meridian, follows with an introduction to the Proliance(R) software solution, and reviews how BI capabilities have been incorporated into this enterprise construction project management offering from Meridian Systems.

"Using business intelligence technology to increase visibility across the entire real estate and construction project lifecycle is now a reality," said Berti. "By incorporating analytics into Proliance, our customers can measure performance across their entire capital project and facilities portfolio, and ensure these assets are strategically aligned with corporate revenue and growth objectives."

Proliance software allows organizations to optimize their entire portfolio of capital projects, programs and facilities by automating the complete Plan-Build-Operate asset lifecycle. By uniquely integrating project and portfolio management and facilities management applications into one enterprise software solution, Proliance effectively allows organizations to reduce capital project costs, shorten cycle times, and to streamline facility maintenance.

Leading research firm IDC also published a research insight document, titled Meridian Systems Blazes the Trail for PPM in the Asset Life Cycle with Proliance 3.0. The paper details the Proliance solution and Meridian's strategy of using one enterprise software system of record to automate all phases of real estate projects and facilities assets.

Corporate real estate, construction and facilities executives can download both the recorded webinar featuring Gartner analyst, Bill Hostmann, and the IDC insight paper on Proliance by going to the Meridian Systems website, at http://www.meridiansystems.com/proliance.

About Meridian Systems:
Meridian Systems provides enterprise project management software for optimizing the plan, build and operate lifecycle for real estate, construction and other physical infrastructure initiatives. Since 1993, Meridian solutions have been chosen by today's large building owners, government agencies, and engineering and construction firms to improve top-line revenue growth while reducing their capital construction costs. Meridian was named as the leading software vendor in the categories of project management software and collaboration for the construction industry in the 2006 National Construction-Technology Survey from Constructech Magazine. Meridian also ranks as the market share leader in project management software among general contractors with over $100 million in revenue*. For more information, call Meridian at 800 850 2660, or go to www.meridiansystems.com/pr033106 .

*Statistics excerpted from CFMA's 2004 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, fourth edition with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, 609-452 8000.

Source: Meridian Systems

CONTACT: Sue Watkins, Director of Marketing of Meridian Systems,
+1-916-294 2136, or swatkins@meridiansystems.com

Web site: http://www.meridiansystems.com/

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