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San Francisco, CA – July 29, 2010 – Sword CTSpace Products VP Tim Fleet will deliver a presentation on the successful cases, potential uses, and discernable limitations of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or internet-hosted information management solutions in nuclear builds at the NIRMA 2010 Conference in Summerlin, Nevada. Mr. Fleet’s 3:45 p.m. August 16th technical session titled, “Does the cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” will note the drastic improvements SaaS has on inter-project communication, at the same time addressing compliance concerns and on-premise IM alternatives.

Brentford, UK – July 27, 2010 – Sword CTSpace client STRABAG was one of the project leaders on the €436 million Limerick Tunnel in Ireland, a four-lane, fifteen-bridge, 10km-long roadway that will serve primarily as a bypass of Limerick and as a connector of the cities of Galway and Cork. STRABAG completed a subterranean tunnel and provided the equipment for the construction of a 965 meter-long tunnel, the centerpiece of the project, using FusionLive for their document management and communication enhancement needs. Once voted the “European PPP-Deal of the Year 2006,” the Limerick Tunnel was completed within four years, two months quicker than expected, and its grand opening was attended by the Prime Minister of Ireland.

Summerlin, Nevada - July 6, 2010 - The Nuclear Information and Records Management Association (NIRMA) is the nuclear industry’s leader in information management. Since 1977 NIRMA has been uniquely qualified to provide guidance to commercial and Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in the areas of quality records programs, regulatory compliance activities, electronic records initiatives, document management technologies, and knowledge management issues.

Interview of Product Director Tim Fleet on page 9, in the "NIRMA looks to the future" section, on the theme, “Does the Cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” . Tim Fleet will give a compelling presentation (technical session #19) on this theme, at the NIRMA 2010 Information Management Conference, Summerlin, Nevada on August 16.

Offshore Technology International (2010, Volume 1) - Finally a supplier of collaboration and document management applications for the construction industry is taking a customer centric view of how solutions should be supplied. Sword’s latest range of applications, "Fusion", have been developed through taking the industries viewpoint of considering not only function, but form and finance also. Having initially brought together some of the best engineering and construction applications into the same stable, i.e. the bringing together through acquisition of BuildOnline, Citadon CW, Cimage & Novasoft, Sword decided to take a fresh and different approach. Before embarking on an exercise to simply extract the best of each of these applications into a best in class application portfolio, Sword decided to take a broader look at the requirements of the industry by putting themselves in their customers’ boots! ....

San Francisco, CA, USA - May 17, 2010 – Sword CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, is launching its brand-new “Engineering Collaboration” online community. The community allows those involved in developing, implementing or working with engineering and construction collaboration technologies to report news, share and debate ideas and to promote the benefits of collaboration solutions. People from the engineering and construction sector and related industries will be able to view and participate in discussions. Conversely, engineering and construction collaboration technology developers will be able to draw attention to themselves and their industries and interact with potential clients. The website is located at www.engineering-collaboration.com ...

Sword CTSpace helps major refinery company increase its productivity

Brentford, UK – May 12, 2010 – Sword CTSpace’s FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be the subject of a customer testimonial by the Moroccan refinery company SAMIR at a session of the IBM IOD EMEA 2010 Conference in the Rome Marriot Park Hotel Wednesday May 19 11:45am-12:35pm (Room TBA). SAMIR, a public company with a staff of 1100 and $3.2 billion turnover in 2009, currently operates at a capacity of 6.5 MT/year (under expansion to 8.2 MT/year)...

Moroccan refinery company SAMIR to testify to the real-world applicability of FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 with a case study about their use of the solution

Brentford, UK – May 7, 2010 – Sword CTSpace’s project collaboration solution FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be featured at the IBM IOD EMEA Conference in Rome on May 19-21, 2010. Sword CTSpace’s presentations will consist of live demos at their kiosk (#95, in the Industry Solutions section) and a compelling product overview and customer testimonial in sessions at the Rome Marriot Park Hotel. FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 leverages the generic FileNet framework and adds powerful document management and collaboration workflow features to support engineering projects of all sizes and complexities...
 

San Francisco, USA – April 7, 2010 – Sword CTSpace is releasing today FusionLive, the latest addition to the Fusion family of products which provide a unique combination of on premise and cloud based content management solutions to the engineering and construction industries.

Brentford, UK – May 3, 2010 – Sword CTSpace, a world leading provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications to the construction and engineering industry announced that they will be working with Hochtief to aid the structural design of two new power stations for RWE by providing their Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, FusionLive. As part of the RWE power station renovation programme, the Consult IKS energy planning department at HOCHTIEF has been awarded the contract for the structural design of two coal-fired power stations. RWE is investing almost $5bn in both facilities....
 

Houston, Texas, USA – February 22, 2010 – SwordCTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, will be attending the Digital Plant Conference 2010, “The Plant Asset Lifecycle Event,” on March 1-3 at the Hilton Americas in Houston.

SwordCTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, announced today that they will be working with STRABAG on the project “Tanzende Türme” (dancing towers) in Hamburg, Germany.

Brentford, UK – January 22, 2010 – SwordCTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, interviewed representatives from some of the world’s leading Hydropower companies (SNC Lavalin, EDF, ABB, Atkins Ltd., etc.) at the HYDRO 2009 event in Lyon, France on October 28, 2009.

The consensus opinion from these representatives was that though hydropower has shortcomings in the cost and length of its projects, the industry expects to gain the most from the extraordinary rise in demand for “green” energy sources as the safest and most proven form of renewable energy. Many stressed that the primary challenge for the industry is the necessity to strengthen the lines of communication on its projects in order to reduce project cost and length, thereby making its projects more attractive to investors.
(Videos of these interviews can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/swordctspace#p/c/C629CF8FB0B89654.)

Coteba, the engineering and construction group, selects Sword CTSpace to facilitate project management and collaboration on the ‘Les Halles’ project in the centre of Paris.

SwordCTSpace’s document management and collaboration workflow application is being used by Union Investment Real Estate on their latest project, the EMPORIO in Hamburg. Union investment has been given the task of modernizing the building, which is listed as a heritage site, to the new high standards of material and energy efficiency.

Vinci construction is again with SwordCTSpace on the management of documents and work collaboration on their latest project: the new ‘Yacht club de Monaco’.

GCC is calling upon Sword CTSpace to help optimize document management and work collaboration on the construction of the new police barracks for the "Gendarmerie Nationale" in Lyon (France). The project will be run as a public-private partnership and SwordCTSpace will be implementing their Saas based solution.

Sword CTSpace and NNE Help Combat the Diabetes Pandemic and Smallpox Bioterrorism Threat.

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