Gensym's Apps to be Delivered by IndustrialEvolution.com

IndustrialEvolution.com announced an agreement with Gensym Corp, a leader in adaptive software products for modeling, simulating and monitoring business processes, that will make available on the Internet an extensive suite of Gensym software applications.

In the next few months, customers will be able to subscribe to Gensym's adaptive software solutions through IndustrialEvolution.com's hosting of real-time operational and production data on the Web. This service, combined with Gensym's process control applications, generates various benefits for industrial customers.

Applications such as intelligent monitoring, analysis and optimization will be available to customers in real-time, helping to improve their operational performance on an ongoing basis.

"By making our software applications and tools available with real-time customer data on the Internet, we can deliver significant benefits to customers whose capital budgets or project constraints might have prevented them from purchasing our software technologies in the past," said Jim Slane, vice president of marketing for Gensym.

Roland Heersink, chief executive officer of IndustrialEvolution.com said, "We are absolutely delighted that Gensym is one of the first companies to join our BestInClass applications family. Gensym's industry-leading adaptive software technologies add significant value for customers to our overall Web-Powered Manufacturing strategy."

The BestInClass applications strategy aims to assist customers in the process and manufacturing industries improve their operational performance through the deployment of software applications co-hosted on secure Web servers with customer operational and production data.

Applications are integrated with real-time and historical process data as necessary to best produce results that accurately and reliably help improve operating performance.

The BestInClass applications are delivered through the IndustrialEvolution.com e-business environment, ensuring security of customer data and application settings. This e-business environment performs the necessary administrative functions to manage a customer's use of the software applications, such as user authentication and usage monitoring.

The IndustrialEvolution.com e-business environment is available for use by all vendors and is specially designed to require minimum change to existing applications.

IndustrialEvolution.com uses the PI System from OSI Software as the standard data platform for hosting of real-time data and application results, facilitating inter-application communications and avoiding unnecessary integration work with various on-site systems.

About Gensym

Gensym Corp, www.gensym.com, is a leading provider of adaptive software products that model, simulate and monitor business processes. Since 1986, Gensym has sold more than 13,000 product licenses to organizations in communications, manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, government and other industries.

About IndustrialEvolution.com

Founded in 2000, IndustrialEvolution.com is the first company with its roots firmly planted in the process industries to bring a new Internet approach to performance improvement in manufacturing.

IndustrialEvolution.com's Web-Powered Manufacturing suite includes the AnyWhere, AnyTime, BestInClass, FullScope, IndustryBest and WorldsBest services -- all of which bring real value to customer operations today by making operational data and information available via the Web when and where it is needed to help improve operating performance.

The IndustrialEvolution.com vision is that all manufacturers, regardless of size or location, will have equal and easy access to the best expertise from any source inside or outside their company, as facilitated by the Web-Powered Manufacturing data management and e-business environment.

IndustrialEvolution.com is based in Phoenix. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.IndustrialEvolution.com.

Contact IndustrialEvolution.com, Phoenix, Roland Heersink, 602-867-0416.