Suncor Becomes the 300th Intergraph(R) SmartPlant(R) Foundation Customer

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Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:01am EDT

SmartPlant Enterprise document and data management solution posts 50-percent
growth in past year

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Just one year after reaching the
200th customer mark, rapid industry adoption of Intergraph(R)'s SmartPlant(R)
Foundation has pushed sales past the 300th customer milestone with Suncor
Energy Inc.'s selection of the engineering information management solution. 

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Suncor, a major North American energy producer and Intergraph customer,
selected SmartPlant Foundation to manage non-Intergraph data - Suncor's legacy
of 3D models - for oil and gas development projects. The sale marks a
50-percent growth rate for SmartPlant Foundation in a single year. 

SmartPlant Foundation is the ISO15926 compliant document and data management
solution within SmartPlant Enterprise,  an integrated solutions suite that
provides full design, construction, materials and engineering data management
capabilities needed for the creation, safe operation and maintenance, and
capital Plant Lifecycle Management (cPLM) of large-scale process, power,
marine and offshore projects. 

SmartPlant Foundation's life cycle data management also enables a smoother
handover for EPCs to owner operators and for owner operators to more easily
maintain, refurbish or modify their plants. The solution permits electronic
management of all project and plant engineering information, integrating data
on the physical asset, work processes and regulatory and safety imperatives to
facilitate enhanced global decision support capabilities. 

Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president, said, "We are
pleased to recognize an industry leader such as Suncor as our 300th SmartPlant
Foundation customer. The remarkable pace of the industry's adoption of this
solution demonstrates the value of its ability to accurately manage all
aspects of a plant's design, modification, upgrades and refurbishment,
effectively managing the evolving plant configuration from front-end
engineering design to plant decommissioning."

The ARC Advisory Group, a leading industry analyst firm, ranked Intergraph the
No. 1 overall engineering design 3D software and process engineering tools
(PET) provider worldwide  according to its PET Worldwide Outlook Market
Analysis and Forecast through 2013. 


About Intergraph

Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial
software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and
governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph's industry-specific
software to organize vast amounts of data into understandable visual
representations and actionable intelligence. Intergraph's software and
services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and
ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and
millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and
Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I).  Intergraph PP&M provides
enterprise engineering software for the design, construction and operation of
plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides
geospatially-powered solutions to the defense and intelligence, public safety
and security, government, transportation, photogrammetry, utilities, and
communications industries. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.

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SOURCE  Intergraph Nuclear  + Power Generation

David Joffrion, Manager, Corporate Communications, +1-256-730-2315,
David.Joffrion@Intergraph.com
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