New Company Created To Deliver Technology to the Real Estate Industry

United Systems Integrators Takes a Major Step to Transform 
the Corporate Real Estate Industry with Technology Solutions

Stamford, Conn. – March 25, 2002 – As part of its ongoing effort to expand its mission to bring innovative technology to the real estate market, United Systems Integrators (USI) announced today the launch of a new subsidiary company, Sequentra® Solutions. 

The new subsidiary will offer an upgraded version of USI’s core technology product, Sequentra® -- a Web-based software tool developed for the corporate commercial real estate industry as a cost-effective solution for managing location information, transactions, projects and measuring performance with greater efficiency. 

Sequentra® is based on a previous USI technology offering called e-Tracking. The new product is more intuitive, more robust and processes data on a faster level. It was developed in conjunction with real estate and e-business experts within USI, the nation’s fastest growing corporate real estate services firm. In addition to service providers, Sequentra® Solutions incorporated input gained from providing integrated real estate and technology solutions to over 50 major national and multinational corporations.

“This is an ideal tool for corporate real estate departments that need to manage a large volume of transactions and projects with more efficiency”, stated Rick Bertasi, President and Chief Technology Officer of Sequentra® Solutions. “We are also seeing a move towards centralized corporate real estate operations and Sequentra® facilitates collaboration globally and gives remote employees a tool to manage work product from a central repository of data.”

Sequentra® is a robust system with flexible and customizable reporting capabilities. It also contains a Lease Management module, that combined with the workflow tracking feature, can serve as an entire corporate real estate database and reporting system. Sequentra® can be combined with or integrated into third party lease administration, property management and accounting software.

Sequentra® is the first real estate management software that can seamlessly integrate transaction and portfolio related information. Specifically, lease information can be transferred to a project / transaction at the onset to save time in the project set up. In addition, the software is the only one with a “flexible savings quantification feature” that allows clients to track real estate savings that are unique to their company, peer group or space type. This provides key decision makers with insight into how real estate can be a strategic asset, not only a business expense. 

“Because Sequentra® is fully Web-based it supports 24/7 communications, is easy to use and is cost effective. Sequentra® takes full use of the advantage of the Internet by allowing dispersed real estate managers and business unit managers access to real time information when and where they need it. ” says Garrett Cannon, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Sequentra® Solutions. 

Sequentra® puts information quickly into the hands of those that need it for informed decision making. A higher level of data availability has led to a much higher level of data integrity. It allows corporate real estate departments to quickly deploy state of the art Web-based technology at a fraction of the cost of doing it internally. There are no headaches from trying to set up remote access to a networked based application. It also allows smaller companies’ real estate departments with limited technology budgets to deploy a robust tool.

Sequentra® can be installed as an ASP (Application Service Provider) or hosted internally on a corporate Intranet. The system is database independent and can run with any corporate standard database such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2. The flexible and configurable system allows each client and project team member to tailor the system to his or her unique needs.

About Sequentra® Solutions LLC

Sequentra® Solutions LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of USI. Sequentra® Solutions provides technology solutions and services focused on the corporate real estate industry. Select e-business clients include Computer Sciences Corporation, United Technologies, Homestore.com, Manpower, Delta Air Lines, Avaya, GMAC, Farmers Insurance, and RBC Dain Rauscher. To request a demonstration of Sequentra® please visit www.Sequentra®.com.

About United Systems Integrators

United Systems Integrators Corporation (USI) is the nation’s leading corporate real estate services firm. Founded by Ed McLaughlin, whose experience with Hewlett Packard and IBM inspired the creation of USI’s “systems integration” business model. USI has more than 40 offices throughout North America and its real estate alliances represent a combined portfolio of more than 20,000 properties occupying more than 250 million square feet of office, industrial and retail space.