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Hard Dollar Expands Project Lifecycle Solution to Integrate Disparate Systems in the Construction and Energy Markets

2007.1 Release Automates Cost and Resource-Loading of Project Schedules, Enterprise Performance Reporting and Advanced Rseource Coordination

Tempe, Arizona - May 30, 2007 - Hard Dollar Corporation, a leading provider of integrated project lifecycle management solutions, today launched the latest version of its Enterprise and Workgroups editions for the engineering/construction and power/energy industries. As the only product in the market with real-time, two-way integration with Primavera and Microsoft scheduling applications, Hard Dollar 2007.1 creates a more efficient way for project teams to connect the applications used to manage project costs, resources and schedules. Hard Dollar version 2007.1 allows users to gain quick understanding of project and company health using automatic cost- and resource-loading of project schedules, cross-project reporting and enhanced resource coordination and forecasting.

"Many organizations are finding that despite a strong project or portfolio plan, there is a huge chasm between estimates and actual costs once a project is underway," explains Alistair Johnson-Clague, Hard Dollar's president and CEO. "Our customers now have a complete project lifecycle solution that consolidates information across multiple applications and numerous projects. As a result they can more effectively see how the success of each project affects the success of the entire organization."

As engineering/construction and power/energy organizations continue to lose valuable time managing project data in multiple systems, Hard Dollar maintains partnerships with industry-leading solution providers to improve system interoperability. Through the company's technology partnerships with Primavera and Microsoft, Hard Dollar customers can quickly and easily transfer information between scheduling applications. Organizations can improve visibility and decision-making using Hard Dollar's timely cost-forecasting capabilities and by sharing key information with accounting/ERP systems.

"Hard Dollar's technology has enhanced the exchange of information with our existing systems, specifically the integration with the scheduling solutions we already have in place." said Gilberto Neves, CEO of Odebrecht Construction, Inc. "We rely on the ease of use and the swift exchange of information to effectively and efficiently address various critical aspects of our projects."

"Knowing how our resources are being distributed is critical to our ability to make the smartest possible business decisions," said Steve Padilla, CEO of Hunter Contracting. "We can always make project operations more efficient, and Hard Dollar helps us do just that. Through its interoperability with all of our project systems and data, Hard Dollar helps us spread project efficiencies through our entire organization, and on to our clients."

The following are the features unique to the 2007.1 Enterprise & Workgroup editions:

Enhanced Two-Way Primavera/Hard Dollar Integration

• Exchange real-time resource, cost, progress and status data
• Cost- and resource-load project schedules automatically
• Roll-up cost items for scheduling purposes to create summarized schedules from highly detailed project plans

New Microsoft .NET framework

• The new version incorporates the 2.0 release of the .NET framework from Microsoft, which provides enhancements to the graphical user interface throughout the Hard Dollar application, and ensures compatibility with other Microsoft .NET applications.

The following are the features unique to the 2007.1 Enterprise edition only:

Advanced Enterprise Resource Coordination and Forecasting

• Comprehensive visibility into resource needs across projects
• Assign resources to any project for any length of time
• Instantly view resource location and availability, and flag potential resource conflicts
• Use planned resources in the estimate as a starting point for identifying resource requirements

Enterprise Performance Reporting

• User defined reporting across multiple projects and external applications
• Bid and actual results with multiple project KPI's
• Forward and retrospective views of productivity and costs
• Data Warehouse capabilities to capture critical information as reference for future projects

Many leading companies including Alstom, Hunter Contracting, Odebrecht Engineering and Construction and Zachry Construction Corporation have standardized on Hard Dollar.

About Hard Dollar Corporation

Founded in 1989, Hard Dollar Corporation is the world's leading provider of integrated project lifecycle management solutions. The company's patented technology is the only functional, single-view solution on the market that offers real-time, multi-user collaboration through the managed interaction of resources, cost, schedule and cash flow throughout the entire life of the project. The comprehensive software is designed specifically to manage the rigorous and ever-changing demands of enterprise scale projects to maximize profits.

Hard Dollar systems are deployed today by thousands of users to manage billions of dollars worth of projects every month spanning multiple industries. For more information on the company or its products, visit www.harddollar.com.

 

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