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Systems/Enterprise:

ASRC BROADENS COMMITMENT TO CORIO APPLICATIONS ON DEMAND

Corio Inc, a leading enterprise application service provider, announced that ASRC Service Center Inc, the shared services management company owned by Arctic Slope Regional Corp, has selected Corio to upgrade its ERP platform using Corio Development, an on demand infrastructure and application management service designed to reduce the costs and delivery time of enterprise application development projects. Corio Development is a component of Corio's Applications on Demand family of products and services.

ASRC Service Center is an independent company that provides IT and other support services for ASRC's 6,000 employees. ASRC has been a Corio Applications on Demand customer since 2002 for infrastructure and application management services.

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Corio Development is a pay-as-you-go, on demand service to support enterprise application development projects. Corio Development delivers a secure, fully patched infrastructure "sandbox" environment in as little as five days. Customers are able to scale the service as their needs evolve, defer expensive infrastructure costs and accelerate projects. Through Corio Development project teams gain valuable information of the exact architecture and sizing requirements for production before costly procurements are committed.

Corio Development provides the following services for leading enterprise applications:

• S, M, L Class configurations.
• Hardware, application installation and patching.
• End-to-end infrastructure hosting.
• Application and database administration expert services.
• "Go-live" delivery in as little as five days.
• Corio iSRVCE technology resource management (TRM) support.
• "Pay-as-you-go" pricing with no long term commitments.

"Corio Development provides us with a reliable, cost effective upgrade solution," said Greg Gapinski, president of ASRC Service Center. "Corio has consistently demonstrated their commitment to our success."

"ASRC is leveraging on demand services to become more efficient," said John Ottman, executive vice president of Worldwide Markets at Corio. "Corio Applications on Demand delivers the high reliability they require and reduces operational costs."