MRO Software Partners With Courion Corporation To Offer Enterprise Pro

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    BEDFORD & FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 3, 2005--

    Self-Service Password Management Capabilities to Enhance MRO Software's Maximo Enterprise Suite

    MRO Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: MROI), the leading provider of strategic asset and service management solutions, and Courion(R) Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise provisioning solutions, today announced an agreement whereby MRO Software will offer Courion's PasswordCourier(R) self-service password reset and synchronization software and ProfileCourier(R) self-service user profile management software.
    Under the terms of the agreement, MRO Software will leverage Courion's PasswordCourier and ProfileCourier with its Maximo(R) Enterprise Suite (MXES) service desk functionality to enhance asset and services management capabilities. With an initial focus on password management, MRO Software will also have the ability in the future to provide Courion's entire Enterprise Provisioning Suite(TM) for extended enterprise user provisioning and compliance of IT and non-IT assets.
    Maximo Enterprise Suite provides a comprehensive solution for companies that are seeking increased business performance from improved asset and service management. MXES is a comprehensive suite of products all built on a single technology platform. It combines enhanced Enterprise Asset Management functionality with new service management, service desk, IT asset management and IT service management capabilities that together improve the effectiveness of asset management programs.
    "Our strategy is to deliver flexible, complete asset service management and service desk solutions in a unified offering," said David Rothberg, vice president, strategic alliances at MRO Software. "With the addition of a leading enterprise provisioning solution from Courion to complement MXES, we are able to help our customers reduce costs, increase productivity and improve satisfaction levels in a comprehensive service desk offering."
    By offering a password management solution with MRO Software's strategic asset and service management solutions, employees will become more efficient by reducing the time spent on tasks that are unrelated to their core jobs. The Courion solution will also allow IT support staffs to focus on mission-critical operations without compromising corporate security levels.
    "Courion is excited MRO Software has chosen to work with us to enhance its recently announced service management offering. MRO Software's decision to offer Courion's password management technology further validates our leadership position in the market and demonstrates why Fortune 100 companies are choosing Courion to provide scalable, secure enterprise provisioning solutions," said Kurt Johnson, vice president of corporate development at Courion. "Our shared vision of self-service made this a natural partnership. We look forward to teaming with MRO Software to increase our joint customer satisfaction."

    About Courion

    Courion enables complex organizations to rapidly respond to constant change. Unlike traditional identity and access management technologies, Courion's Dynamic Community-based Provisioning empowers you to deliver transparent compliance, sustained efficiencies and improved business velocity, by effectively adapting to and leveraging your changing business operations, technology infrastructure and organization. Over 250 enterprise customers worldwide including 60 of the FORTUNE 500 utilize Courion's Enterprise Provisioning Suite(tm) to securely automate routine, manual processes for user provisioning, password management, industry and regulatory compliance, profile management, and digital certificate management. For more information, contact Courion's headquarters in Framingham, MA, USA at 508-879-8400 or visit www.courion.com.

    About MRO Software

    MRO Software is the leading provider of strategic asset and service management solutions. Maximo Enterprise Suite, the Company's flagship solution, is delivered on a web-architected platform and increases productivity, optimizes asset performance, and service levels, reduces costs and enables asset-related sourcing and procurement across the entire spectrum of strategic assets.
    The Company's asset management solutions allow customers to manage the complete lifecycle of strategic assets including: planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance and retirement. Using MRO Software's solutions customers improve production reliability, labor efficiency, material optimization, software license compliance, lease management, warranty and service management across the asset base.
    MRO Software (Nasdaq: MROI) is a global company based in Bedford, Mass., with approximately 900 employees, 10,000 customers and more than 260,000 end-users. The Company markets its products through a direct sales organization in combination with a network of international distributors. MRO Software has sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Additional information on MRO Software can be found at http://www.mro.com.

    Courion, PasswordCourier and ProfileCourier are registered trademarks and Enterprise Provisioning Suite is a trademark of Courion Corporation.

    Maximo(R) is a registered trademark, and MRO Software(TM) is a trademark, of MRO Software, Inc.

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CONTACT: MRO Software Vaughn Harring, 781/280-6855 vaughn.harring@mro.com or Courion Corporation Nicole Bedard, 508/661-0467 nbedard@courion.com

KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE PRODUCT MARKETING AGREEMENTS SOURCE: MRO Software

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