New Enterprise Software Enables More Efficient and Effective Management across
Portfolio of Projects across Lifecycle.

MENLO PARK, Calif., October 12, 2010 - Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software, today announced that DTE Energy has selected Skire’s Unifier solution to manage the complete lifecycle of the company’s capital projects, from inception through execution.

DTE Energy Co. is a diversified energy company involved in the development and management of energy-related businesses and services nationwide. DTE Energy is one of the nation’s largest energy suppliers, serving more than three million customers in Michigan. The company’s major projects area has a capital program encompassing a portfolio of nuclear, coal, natural gas, and renewable energy projects. DTE Energy was interested in a comprehensive capital project management solution that would standardize processes and reduce operating costs, while supporting the company’s strategic initiative for continuous improvement.

“DTE Energy’s focus on continuous improvement has us working smarter and more efficiently by using a disciplined, fact-based approach,” said Ron May, senior vice president, major enterprise projects, DTE Energy. “Our vision for Skire is to consolidate project information from multiple sources into a single centralized integrated system, thereby improving the overall project delivery process.”

One of DTE Energy’s strategic imperatives is to continually move up the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Maturity Model. The implementation of Skire Unifier is expected to be a key step to accomplish that goal. With Unifier, DTE Energy has identified these goals:

Integrate a variety of systems, including SAP(R), so that critical information is available in real time; Standardize work processes to ensure the correct information is gathered and stored at the accurate time; Improve overall project controls, including cost, schedule, scope and resources; Better collaborate with contractors and business partners; and Optimize processes to increase efficiency.

“We are thrilled to add one of the nation’s largest energy companies to our diverse portfolio of clients,” said Massy Mehdipour, chief executive officer, Skire. “DTE Energy represents the fifth major energy company to implement Unifier for comprehensive capital project management, further establishing Skire as a leading technology provider to the power and utility industry.”

About Skire
Skire, Inc. is the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate, and project portfolio management software. The company’s flagship Unifier(TM) 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

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

Comprehensive Planning and Program Management Software Will Support
$1.4 Billion Capital Program

MENLO PARK, Calif., September 28, 2010 – Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate and project portfolio management software today announced that its Unifier™ solution has been selected by Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) as its Enterprise Project Management System (EPMS). HRSD provides wastewater treatment services to 17 cities and counties in southeast Virginia, an area with a population of 1.6 million. HRSD owns and operates 13 wastewater treatment plants with a combined capacity of 249 million gallons per day.

Increasing environmental regulations, as well as aging infrastructure, has resulted in a steady increase of capital projects undertaken by HRSD. The current 10-year capital improvement plan (CIP) consists of 169 projects with a cumulative cost of $1.4 billion. HRSD recognized the need to implement full capital life cycle best practices to ensure visibility and transparency into its management and execution of the entire program. By leveraging technology and automated business processes, HRSD enhances its ability to manage such a large volume of projects, contain costs, control schedules and manage risk, while ensuring customer expectations are met.

After a comprehensive competitive procurement process, Skire’s Unifier platform was selected due to its complete life cycle approach that puts automated workflow at the heart of their system. Moreover, Skire’s ability to be easily configured to match HRSD policies and procedures was a key factor in the decision. Unifier will track financial data, schedule information and documentation from inception to completion.

Historically, project information was entered in multiple systems and spreadsheets, causing managers to spend hours searching for information and limiting visibility into the current status. With Unifier, project information will be captured in a centralized repository, saving time and increasing accuracy. The centralized repository will also support the HRSD capital planning process. Additionally, Unifier is hosted by Skire and delivered in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, saving HRSD the cost of setting up and maintaining the application in-house.

“Our CIP contains projects from all departments, and is a multi-departmental effort to get these projects completed,” said Jay Bernas, chief of planning and analysis, HRSD. “Implementing Unifier will streamline our project delivery, avoid redundancies and ensure consistency across the organization.”

The Unifier platform automates standard processes across design, bid, construction and completion, allowing HRSD to get up and running quickly. The solution also provides the flexibility to automate configured processes specific to HRSD. With Unifier, forms are configured for easy data entry, and information is presented in an easy to use, intuitive interface.

“Skire is proud to announce the addition of HRSD to the list of numerous public agencies that have selected Skire’s software for capital construction project and program management,” said Trenton Brown, executive vice president of Skire. “By implementing a capital project management system delivered via the cloud that can extend across the lifecycle, agencies can not only begin to track and report on current projects, but with all of their data in one system, they can begin to leverage it for better future planning, allowing them to maximize the benefit of available funding.”

About Skire
Skire, Inc. is the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate 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 www.skire.com

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

Unifier’s schedule data can be viewed in a tabular format and in a fully interactive Gantt format. All activities can have multiple dates (planned start, actual start, etc.) and calculations between dates for durations. In addition, any number of attributes can also be configured and associated with each activity.

Unifier’s Schedule Manager functionality includes all of the key features you would expect from an industry leading application, including:

With this level of capability and tight integration with cost data and activity status, you can see up-to-the-minute project status and changes to the critical path. The ability to react to these changes quickly can make the difference between project success and endless change orders and post-project claims.

If your projects rely on schedule-centric methods for applying Earned Value, you are missing a big part of the picture. A true Earned Value analysis combines scope, cost and schedule patterns to inform the project management team in determining the accurate and complete status of their project. Unifier’s integrated cost and schedule management solution allows our clients to manage contractual commitments as well as schedule activities within the same system, driving efficient and real time EV results. Earned Value can be driven either by the Cost Sheet and Cash Flow modules or by schedule activities in the Schedule Manager. Either way, you no longer have to cost-load schedule activities as the basis of EV calculations or manually allocate costs from a separate contracting system.

Unifier’s Earned Value calculations provide indications as to whether or not work is being performed as planned. While Unifier can calculate any such measures, the most popular ones are Cost Variance, Schedule Variance and Cost Performance Index (Budget Cost of Work Performed divided by Actual Cost of Work Performed). Using these measures and Unifier’s ability to automate calculations from source data in a real-time environment, projects can be assessed completely and quickly. Project Managers can then make necessary changes more intelligently and proactively and fully control the risks to a project.

Unifier’s Cash Flow Manager is fully integrated with Cost Sheet data and any user-defined sources. This allows you to baseline project spends, track actual costs, calculate future spends on a known forecast and calculate from trends compared to baseline curves. Because the Cash Flow curves draw on the Cost Sheet information, all estimates, forecasts and risks are included in the Cash Flow curves on a real-time basis.

Cash flow curves can also be modeled graphically to show baseline (original) estimates, actuals to date and forecasts based most recent actuals. Numerous other curves can be shown through simple user-controlled option menus, which avoid the need for customization or even IT-driven configuration.