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CygNet for Pipeline Compresses 16-Month Software Implementation Projects for Oil and Gas Pipeline Companies Into 66-days

Industry's First Vertical Solution for Pipeline Operations Drives Down Risk and Takes Cost Out of Installing an Enterprise Operations Platform

San Luis Obispo, Calif. - November 9, 2009 - CygNet Software today announced "CygNet for PipelineTM," the oil and gas pipeline industry's first packaged vertical solution for pipeline operators designed to dramatically reduce the risk, time and cost required for enterprise operations software projects. CygNet for Pipeline – which includes segment-specific implementation templates, device connectors and applications for standardized gas operations functionality – enables companies to rapidly install and begin using the powerful CygNet Enterprise Operations Platform (EOP) within a matter of weeks, instead of the multi-year projects typical for enterprise software implementations.

"With CygNet, Atlas was up and effectively functioning with a new enterprise SCADA solution in about three weeks," said Darin Molone, SCADA manager, Atlas Pipeline. "Plus, I can tune the system myself as often as I want, typically without needing to involve our IT team."

CygNet for Pipeline: First Packaged Vertical Solution for Pipeline Operations

The CygNet solution has experienced rapid market acceptance and is being used in many of the largest domestic gas pipeline transmission companies. With CygNet, these companies are able to unify large volumes of essential, real-time data into a complete operational view across the enterprise.

Leveraging this foundation and experience with multiple deployments, CygNet has developed a standardized solution, CygNet for Pipeline. In using this proven, hassle-free solution, clients need only input their specific configuration data, which completely eliminates the need for multiple cycles of design-signoff-create-test-customize. This fast-track implementation solution includes a pre-designed and tested foundation built exclusively for transportation pipeline operators, enabling them to collect, manage and distribute critical real-time information throughout the enterprise, from the control room to the marketing floor, faster than ever before. This speed of deployment and ease of configuration has shattered the costly, time-consuming and resource-intensive model that has dominated the real-time oil and gas industry for years.

"Pipeline operators have been forced to patch together information from a variety of different vendors, dramatically hindering their operational efficiency and market responsiveness," said Steve Robb, vice president of business development at CygNet Software. "With CygNet for Pipeline, we are infusing our knowledge platform with a proven, standard approach to quickly installing our Enterprise Operations Platform. Now we can quickly deliver a rich information landscape, while simultaneously eliminating the risks associated with one-off, ‘big bang' software projects."

• Collect: Taking advantage of CygNet's pre-built support for the leading field devices and IT infrastructure components often used by North American pipeline operators, CygNet for Pipeline eliminates the time and cost associated with getting custom solutions to work with each client in the field. This unique approach of incorporating the protocol specifications of leading manufactures, such as Allen Bradly, Bristol, Control Microsystems, Emerson and more, allows CygNet to deliver a scalable, rapidly implementable solution for collecting data from tens of thousands of field and operational devices.
• Manage: CygNet for Pipeline organizes all incoming data into a pre-configured and tested schema, ensuring the data is efficiently normalized and managed in a hierarchical data model, ready to be leveraged by business users. This unified data model is the foundation for CygNet's industry-specific applications, which deliver personalized views and business processes. These applications, which include functions such as line pack, nominating and forecasting, enable managers and executives to visualize, explore and correlate the data in ways most relevant to their various jobs. The information is presented in logical, tabular formats, which can later be customized by business and operations users – as can all alarms, notifications and calculations – without any risk to future platform version upgrades provided by CygNet.
• Distribute: CygNet for Pipeline is based on the powerful, proven distributed architecture at the core of CygNet's solution. This ensures reliability across a geographically diverse organization. CygNet is designed to scale to virtually any number of users both inside and outside the firewall without the need for additional centralized or specialized computing hardware.

Pricing and Availability

CygNet for Pipeline is available immediately. Pricing includes all segment-specific applications, data schema and collection engines. This package price ensures that budget planning and capture are both accurate and determined at the beginning of the process, eliminating the risk common to custom vendor solutions. For sales information, please see www.cygnetscada.com or call 888-781-3580.

About CygNet Software

CygNet Software leads the oil and gas industry with a new generation of enterprise operations software and solutions. Designed to create an information ecosystem, CygNet's solutions enable organizations to improve operational efficiency and market responsiveness, while complying with increasing regulatory initiatives. Already more than 100 customers involved in oil and gas production, transportation and market delivery - including the majority of the top 10 major independent gas producers in North America - rely on CygNet to collect, manage and distribute the vast amounts of diverse data produced across all facets of its enterprise operations. CygNet harnesses traditional silos of field, production and business data, allowing users across every business function to prioritize and analyze real-time information to support daily operations and strategic decision making. For more information, visit www.cygnetscada.com.

For more information, visit www.cygnetscada.com.

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