MarbleLogic and UNIREX Team to Deliver UniPoll Plus -- A Web-Enabled Supply Chain Management...

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2002

Partnership Creates Suite of Supply Chain Management Solutions

which Integrates Tank Telemetry with ERP Business Systems

for Oil, Gas and Chemical Industries

MarbleLogic,

Inc., a provider of collaborative portal solutions, and UNIREX Corporation (CDNX:URX.V), a supply chain event software engineering firm, today announced that they have partnered to create Unipoll Plus(TM), a fully integrated supply chain solution for managing liquid inventories. By adding the data integration power of MarbleLogic's collaborative platform to UNIREX's popular UniPoll fluid inventory software, UniPoll Plus integrates analysis and business intelligence reporting facilities with critical back office business systems. UniPoll Plus is an end-to-end solution allowing customers to graphically analyze bulk fluid inventories and tank telemetry data, access and manage workflow routes used to generate wireless alerts and reports, and translate requests into business transactions, all via a standard browser.

UniPoll Plus customers include the continuous process industry, chemical producers, bulk terminal managers, air products suppliers and distributors of fuels and lubricants. Traditionally, such bulk commodity inventories have presented problems for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and manufacturing execution systems (MES) since these are designed to control discrete processes utilizing fixed units of measure. Attempts to integrate telemetry data from real-time monitoring systems with batch-oriented business systems have been costly, and have achieved limited success. To compound the problem, cross-function reporting from tank facilities to production/distribution systems remains difficult and in some cases is non-existent. Embracing emerging chemical industry XML standards such as CIDX, UniPoll Plus is designed to serve as a unifying solution to these disparate systems and processes and to answer the on-demand needs of a geographically diverse user population.

"Through this partnership, UNIREX enhances its intellectual capital with MarbleLogic's progressive Internet technologies, while MarbleLogic benefits from UNIREX's 15 years of experience and brand recognition in the oil, gas and chemical vertical industries," said Richard MacAlmon, CEO of MarbleLogic. "As UniPoll Plus, together we have created the industry standard for end-to-end liquid inventory supply chain management."

"UniPoll Plus helps our customers constantly monitor, analyze, report and respond to inventory changes. In today's market it's critical for suppliers to be able to closely manage inventories and effectively communicate status throughout the supply chain," said John Cason, chairman and CEO of UNIREX. "With the help of the Internet, UniPoll Plus keeps all participants in-the-loop at each stage of the process, which can be a bottom line advantage to producer, supplier and end-customer alike."

About UNIREX Corporation

UNIREX Corporation is a public company providing software engineering for client server and Internet-based software solutions and Internet data delivery for Supply Chain Events Management in Vendor Managed Inventory for total fluids maintenance, process control and logistics event management. Using its proprietary technology, UNIREX provides Internet data service to managers in the chemical process industry, the fuels and lubricants distribution industry and bulk storage terminals. Established in 1987 in Huntsville, Alabama, UNIREX has provided engineering services and software solutions for Government agencies, and international clients and Fortune 500 customers including software development projects at over 20 major public utilities throughout the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit www.unirex.com.

About MarbleLogic, Inc

MarbleLogic is a provider of collaborative portal solutions, enabling Global 2000 companies to extend existing ERP systems. Each MarbleLogic solution fuses advanced portal, collaboration, workflow and business intelligence technologies to create a unified, browser-based digital workplace. MarbleLogic's initial product offering includes: UniPoll Plus(TM), a liquid supply chain management solution for the oil, gas & chemical industry and MindAround(TM), a post-merger & acquisition package designed to collaboratively integrate teams and coordinate charters for large electric utility mergers and other knowledge management solutions. MarbleLogic is headquartered in San Francisco, Calif. For more information visit the company's website at www.marblelogic.com.