KBC and ISS Sign a Multi-Year Global Performance Management Solutions Agreement

Online, November 25, 2009 (Newswire.com) - These solutions combine the world-leading KBC refinery and petrochemical process consulting and simulation software, Petro-SIM™ and KBC SIM reactor models, with ISS Group's production integration software, BabelFish™.

"In today's environment, it is important to offer solutions that allow companies to maximise the value created from their plant data," commented George Bright, KBC CEO. "ISS Group has proven expertise and progressive products for integrating all types of plant information, which aligns well with our own technologies and methodologies. We look forward to working closely with ISS to help our clients achieve NextGen performance."

Grant Eggleton, Global BD Manager of ISS, stated, "We are delighted to be a part of this agreement. In combination with the KBC models, the BabelFish web-based visualization framework allows production engineers, planners, and managers to proactively monitor and make adjustments to operations, planning, and scheduling. The combination of KBC and ISS technologies will further allow outputs to be processed to form valuable KPIs. The secure access by multiple parties enables real-time virtual collaboration of plant operations staff with remote process plant expertise."

About ISS Group Limited: ISS Group delivers software solutions to the global energy, minerals and manufacturing industries. ISS Group was established in 1995 and listed on the ASX in 2004. The Company has offices in Australia, US, Europe and Asia and has a blue chip client base including BG Group, BHP Billiton, Saudi Aramco, Woodside, Rio Tinto, Shell, BP, Petronas & British Energy.

The company's flagship product BabelFish is a powerful interface through which companies can aggregate their many disparate real-time systems to provide a single holistic view of their complex processes and operations. ISS have recently added GIS capability to BabelFish. Please visit the ISS Group website, http://www.issgroup.com.au for further information.