SOLUTIA NEWS

April 30th, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENT: Partnership between Solutia SDO and iSwarm Corporation

Solutia SDO is pleased to announce its partnership with iSwarm Corporation. This partnership provides a valuable opportunity for global businesses across any industry to prepare for change, respond more quickly and effectively to the management of tasks related to corporate governance, enterprise risk management and compliance management (GRC), and to gain efficiencies in the overall management costs associated with GRC.  It enables companies to maximize their resources more effectively, while providing the optimal degree of coverage across their risk universe, for any risk being managed.

Partnering with iSwarm provides a fully integrated or customized solution to companies who are attempting to improve performance and reduce costs with GRC; the management of reputational risk is a key business driver in the current economic climate. Solutia’s core strength in providing expertise with business transformation, implementation of change management frameworks, operations and business process engineering, can now be integrally linked with iSwarm expertise with corporate governance, enterprise risk management and compliance management, and iSwarmGRC™ technology. 

"Our proven techniques and technology framework powers some of the world's largest companies, and is at the core of iSwarm's advanced technology," says David Batchelor, iSwarm's Chief Operating Officer, "It is truly compelling to power ‘Swarm’ (Team) behavior in a strained workforce environment where the result is decreased time, effort and costs of managing a company’s risk universe, without sacrificing control.”

"Solutia’s consulting services can help businesses design their governance models for the first time, or help them refine an existing model to reflect impending regulatory changes or to gain greater efficiencies” says Raeanne Stevens, Solutia Principal GRC.  “We can offer clients consulting support at any phase of implementing GRC change; at the onset by collaborating with them to construct a strategy in determining the framework that will enable them to address risk and compliance requirements, or at the implementation phase by providing program or project management expertise, and process reengineering know-how. The results are the best use of the client’s effort and costs, and client confidence in managing GRC change effectively.”

About iSwarm Corporation:

iSwarm Corporation (www.iSwarmSolutions.com) is a GRC solution company that provides corporate governance, enterprise risk management and compliance management software via an online resource, connecting people, engaging in collaborative exercises and applying rigorous mathematics, scientific principles, and analytics. The iSwarmGRC^TM solution features:

• Internal and External Audit Management
• Regulatory Overlap Management
• Risk Management
• IT Compliance Management
• Enterprise and Operational Risk and Control Assessment
• Document Management
• Centralized Corporate Intelligence
• Predictive Control Failure Testing
• Business Improvement and Optimization Management
• Strategic Planning Decision-Making Support
• Executive and Management Reporting, including the Degree of Coverage over regulatory requirements 

March 31st, 2009

WennSoft and Solutia Form Partnership

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Partnership to bring targeted products and services to the Water, Wastewater, Waste Management, Construction Management and Healthcare Industries

 NEW BERLIN, Wis. – WennSoft, a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, has formed a partnership with Solutia SDO Limited of Toronto, Ontario.  Solutia will extend their Microsoft Dynamics™ GP practice with asset management, work-order management and capital-improvement project tracking from WennSoft.

Solutia provides expertise in all areas of enterprise resource planning (ERP) functionality and can provide an experienced team that understands how to drive real business value from the investment made in the Microsoft Dynamics GP system. Solutia specializes in the planning, design, implementation and support of enterprise solutions and is one of the most upcoming and respected Microsoft Dynamics GP partners in Toronto, Ontario.

“Our partnership with Solutia is an excellent combination for our private and public sector customers who are based in Canada,” said Paul Braun, director of sales for WennSoft. “We are excited to extend our value in the water, wastewater, waste management, construction management and healthcare industries by leveraging Solutia’s depth of knowledge in ERP, management consulting and solution deployment.”

WennSoft strives to be the market leader in providing enterprise asset-management, work-order management and capital project-tracking solutions to companies and governmental agencies.  Partnering is the cornerstone in supporting and increasing market penetration of WennSoft solutions. The collaboration of WennSoft and its partners enable WennSoft to achieve success.

“Our partnership with WennSoft provides a nice Front End project management portal solution to our private and public sector customers,” said Emile Querel, Solutia SDO’s Managing Principal.  “We are excited to extend our Dynamics GP ERP practice with WennSoft’s asset management, work order management and capital improvement project tracking solutions.”