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Energy Virtual Partners Select PointCross' Orchestra

    HOUSTON, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- PointCross, Inc., the world's first
goal-driven business process management software company, today announced that
Energy Virtual Partners, Inc. (EVP) has selected Orchestra(TM), its Web-based
platform, as the infrastructure solution to manage its oil and gas asset
management processes.  PointCross will provide Orchestra for effective
management of knowledge and project processes within EVP and with its global
customers, partners, and contractors.
    EVP is a new cutting-edge, oil and gas asset management service that
offers energy companies a high-value alternative for non-core properties.
EVP's unique approach increases the value of an energy firm's under-resourced
assets by leveraging its virtual team of top industry talent, and "fit-for-
purpose" high-end reservoir, drilling and risk management technologies and
practices -- all at no additional risk or expense to its customers.
    Bob Peebler, EVP president and CEO said, "EVP considered and evaluated
many technology solutions to manage knowledge and project processes with our
customers, partners and contractors.  It quickly became apparent that
PointCross' comprehensive platform was the only technology available that met
our virtual operational needs of an internet-based knowledge management
infrastructure that was project centric and could reach across company
boundaries."
    "Oil and gas asset management has to be knowledge intensive, with real-
time collaboration and corroboration within our virtual team, and with our
partners and contractors.  The value of our virtual team grows in proportion
to the size and effectiveness of our global functional networks.  We found
that Orchestra, with its unique contextual networking capability, is the only
solution that makes this possible, while simultaneously capturing rapidly
developing knowledge and decisions for continuous learning and rapid reuse on
multiple projects.  All of these factors are vital to the long-term success of
EVP and our partners," Peebler added.
    Pradeep Anand, PointCross president, said, "EVP is the most exciting,
game-changing development in the energy industry today, and we expect the
company to go places.  Led by Bob Peebler, an industry visionary, EVP's
business model is a compelling solution for global energy firms to reduce
asset management expenses.  PointCross prides itself on being selected as
EVP's infrastructure solution for lowering costs and cycle times in oil and
gas asset management."
    EVP will take advantage of Orchestra's unique ability to coordinate
globally dispersed team members, partners and contractors, through a goal-
driven set of common processes, giving participants focused access to their
individual objectives, and instantaneous visibility into all relevant
information for rapid, high-quality decision-making, which can be revisited in
the future.
    Orchestra's reusable goal-driven process management system includes many
significant capabilities designed to support decision-making and knowledge
management in dynamic business networks.
    Energy Virtual Partners is a true virtual business, leveraging state-of-
the-art computing and internet technologies to link partners together with one
goal in mind: to ensure that the asset owner can assign the majority of their
resources -- people, capital, and management time -- to focus on core
activities while utilizing EVP to maximize the value of the remaining portion
of their portfolio.  EVP offers a high-value alternative for non-core
properties which are being under-resourced or may be prematurely sold.  These
oil and gas properties make up a significant part of many major energy
companies portfolios.  By bringing together top industry talent and
technologies, EVP's unique approach can increase an asset's value by lowering
operating costs and increasing reserves.  Energy Virtual Partners, Inc. is
located at 520 Post Oak, Suite 400, Houston, Texas 77027.  For more
information on its services, call 713 963 0972 or visit the Web site at
http://www.energyvp.com
    PointCross is the world's first goal-driven business process management
software company.  PointCross' customers include Major Oil Companies, Offshore
Joint Venture Projects, and Oilfield Service Companies.  PointCross' solution
Orchestra is used for Asset Management, Capital Project Management, HSE
Audits, Project Management, Knowledge Management, Drilling, IT Project
Management, Software Development, Procurement Management, Contract Management,
Engineered-Product Delivery and other goal-driven business processes.
Orchestra combines the advantages of "Business Process Management",
"Management by Objectives", and Management by Exceptions".  For more
information about PointCross, please visit http://www.pointcross.com