Menlo Park, Calif.--June 22, 2004--Continuing its role developing groundbreaking enterprise software for Facility Lifecycle and Project Portfolio Management, Skire today announced the immediate availability of Unifier version 8.0. Building upon the capabilities of its heralded Unifier V7 offering, the latest release represents another pioneering leap by enhancing the solution's cross-project and portfolio management functionality, and introducing powerful new collaboration and reporting features.

"Executives managing capital programs are deluged by a glut of information scattered in multiple sources both internally within their company and externally from service providers. Unifier provides a single solution with all the tools and information needed to make the right decision quickly," says Paul Verveniotis, Skire's vice president of Product Marketing.

"As a company that has upgraded from Version 7, we can attest that a superior product has become even better," says the manager of engineering at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. "This powerful system has helped our project teams reach new levels of collaboration, control and efficiency."

Unifier 8.0 delivers unparalleled business process automation and real-time visibility across capital programs, enabling owners and construction managers to complete projects on time, gain valuable insight for cost avoidance, and directly reduce soft costs.

Extending upon Unifier's core functionality, Version 8.0 now provides the following additional features:
• Command Center—Advanced portfolio management capabilities provide executives and program managers real-time insight into critical information across multiple projects. By combining a 10,000-foot dashboard view with the ability to easily drill-down multiple levels, Unifier provides management with the information needed to continually evaluate, improve and replicate project performance.
• User-Defined Reports—This functionality allows users to create or run custom reports without requiring other commercial report writers. Through Skire's proprietary technology, users can now quickly and easily run a variety of custom ad-hoc reports within Unifier's intuitive user interface. These capabilities eliminate the complexities involved with running reports, enabling every day users to get the information they need when they need it.
• Native Application Viewing—This advancement provides an alternative viewing method which allows users to view a file in its native application if that application is installed on the user's system. With this capability, project teams can quickly and easily view and collaborate on a variety of file types in a familiar environment.

"Owners and construction managers are faced with numerous business and economic challenges that impede project success and hinder delivering true value to their customers and organizations," says Massy Mehdipour, chief executive of Skire. "Our solution is at the forefront of the industry because it makes these obstacles surmountable. Skire's Unifier empowers project teams with critical real-time data and facilitates the streamlining of project execution to ensure success across all projects."

Availability
Unifier 8.0 has been released for general availability.

About Skire
Since 1988, we have been providing end-to-end solutions for hundreds of organizations, including market-leading Fortune 500® companies, from a variety of industries. In 1998, we developed Unifier based upon our deep understanding of our clients' need for a system to better manage a portfolio of projects across the facility lifecycle. Unifier is now the premier suite of enterprise applications utilized in the execution of large-scale capital programs. Skire's solutions help companies of all sizes increase productivity and profitability, enhance visibility, and accelerate time-to-market. To learn more, please visit us at http://www.skire.com or contact us at (866) GoSkire or via email at unifier@skire.com.