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Sword will be demonstrating its new C2Share product at AIIM April 16-19, Boston, USA

HOUSTON, Texas -- Sword Inc., the North American operations of SWORD Group, confirms its presence at the AIIM Conference & Expo to be held at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, Boston, MA. Following the worldwide product launch at the end of January 2007, Sword will be showcasing C2Share an all - new SharePoint® 2007 add-on application for capital projects. SharePoint and C2Share provide the comprehensive document control capabilities required by complex engineering projects.

The AIIM Conference & Expo is recognised as the largest annual gathering of information management professionals, focused on enterprise content and information management issues and solutions. AIIM runs from 16 – 19 April and Sword can be found on booth 2946. Interested parties can register for the event at http://www.aiimexpo.com/aiimexpo2007/v42/index.cvn?ID=10018.

C2Share, is a Project Document Control solution that is built on Microsoft Sharepoint 2007. C2Share incorporates best practices; manages global project teams; achieves consistent execution; provides compliance; transfers knowledge to new workers; controls liability in integrated project teams; manages the contract; delivers projects on time and to budget.

Sword has accumulated over 15 years of domain knowledge and experience providing content management business applications for heavily regulated industries such as engineering, construction, nuclear energy, oil and gas, electric and gas utilities, and transportation.

In conjunction with SharePoint, C2Share addresses one of the biggest risks in any engineering project—that intermediate and final deadlines will be missed. This slippage is often because the full set of approved documents required at a project milestone is not ready on time. Weeks and even months can be spent generating documents and drawings, and gaining approvals for certification.

“These delays are often due solely to mismanagement of the documentation,” said Tim Fleet, SWORD worldwide C2Share business unit director. Because hundreds and even thousands of documents may be involved, these delays can prove extremely costly.

C2Share prevents this with a powerful yet simple environment for monitoring project documents. Project managers can see at a glance the status of every document, the risks to its completion and approval, and process bottlenecks.

C2Share gives project document controllers all the tools they need to tightly manage the flow of documents between contractors, clients and internal project staff, as well as to and from regulators. Once reviews, approvals and sign-offs are effectively managed, delays caused by document transmittals are greatly reduced. “In a nutshell, that is how C2Share reduces project risk,” Fleet said.

Accuracy and integrity of information are also assured. With transmittals, reviews, approvals and sign-offs under effective control, everyone works from the same base of documentation. C2Share and SharePoint verify that documents are always current. That eliminates outdated information, which is the single biggest cause of engineering error.

To further reduce the risk of relying on outdated copies, information can be accessed from multiple sites. That eliminates the need to create physical or electronic copies. All documents are instantly available on-line, too, so delays in retrieving and printing documents are also eliminated.

Combined with SharePoint, C2Share provides full traceability for regulated businesses where compliance must be demonstrated. All documents, and all their transmittals and distributions, are tracked and time-stamped. In anticipation of regulatory audits, C2Share records every action taken. The C2Share dashboard simplifies and speeds:

• Tracking down causes of delays and improper changes.
• Reducing project disputes and claims.
• Managing conflicts of opinion.

Since C2Share is written to run inside SharePoint 2007 so users can take maximum advantage of all the powerful new SharePoint 2007 capabilities in one seamless integrated system. C2Share uses the SharePoint user interface and has tight integration with Microsoft Office, Outlook and Internet Explorer. That minimizes C2Share training for companies already committed to SharePoint.

C2Share is an out-of-the-box, click-through installation. Because it is a Web application (no client software to install) a new system can be up and running within minutes. Sword’s flexible licensing lets companies sign up for the licences as needed year by year, accommodating the staff fluctuations that all projects encounter.

Karl Noakes, Director of Partner Development and Marketing at Microsoft, said: “The 2007 Microsoft Office system is a tightly integrated application platform. It’s great to see partners like SWORD rapidly adopting this technology to build sophisticated products on its elegant architecture.”

A Microsoft Gold Partner, SWORD is a rapidly growing and profitable $150 million-plus company providing content management solutions in over 30 countries. For more details on C2Share, please contact Tim Fleet at tfleet@sword-group.com.
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NOTE TO EDITORS

SWORD GROUP

The Sword Group is an International IT Products and Services Company that was founded in December 2000 by its Chairman, Jacques MOTTARD.

Jacques’ vision is for Sword to become the best performing global Product and Services Company by identifying, anticipating and satisfying customer requirements whilst delivering profitability year on year and returning exceptional value to all stakeholders.

Together with Jacques our objective is to achieve € 1bn revenue in 2012.

As at the end of June 2006 Sword employed 1,283 staff across 11 countries.

For more information about the SWORD Group please visit www.sword-group.com  or contact:

Tim Kitchener
SWORD UK
International House
1 St. Katharine’s Way
London, E1W 1UN

+44 (0) 207 553 2500
Tim.kitchener@intechsolutions.co.uk

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