For Immediate Release:
Contact: Jill Hellman, Director Media Relations
jill.hellman@miroconsulting.com
201.242.1833

Edison, New Jersey (July 12, 2006)
Tekmark Global Solutions LLC, one of the largest privately held providers of information technology, communications and consulting services to companies worldwide, and Miro Consulting, Inc., the recognized leader in restructuring, negotiating, and managing Oracle software assets including database products, applications, and toolsets, today announced an agreement to provide its customers with a package of services to ensure efficient and effective use of the Oracle and Microsoft environments that combine licensing compliance and cost saving solutions.

As business conditions change throughout the year, companies frequently add and subtract users, create new applications, consolidate technology platforms and merge or acquire other companies. These changes affect a firm's software deployment and license compliance. Licenses owned often do not match licenses in use. Reactive license purchases further complicate the situation resulting in over purchasing and the wrong selection of license types. A major IT research company has reported that companies that forgo the continuous discipline and practice of IT software asset management, regardless of the size of their investment, typically overspend by about 25% annually on IT software and support. This is most often the result of failing to adjust to changes resulting from business operations.

Effective procurement of Oracle and Microsoft licensing includes, but goes well beyond, just getting the most aggressive discount available. Understanding what is needed requires comprehensive and proper interpretation of a firm's licensing compliance status in the context of the vendors' complex rules and regulations.

"As companies have become more complex, software has assumed a critical role in business planning and strategy," said Guy Del Grande, president of Tekmark Global Solutions. "Successfully leveraging software IT assets can result in a significant contribution to the bottom line."

"Because software vendors are continuously changing their license compliance rules, it's easy to inadvertently fall out of compliance," said Ken Saloway, vice president, Operations and CIO, Miro Consulting. "We have teamed with Tekmark to help customers become a lot smarter about managing their software assets and how to get the best balance between software cost and license compliance."

About Tekmark Global Solutions
Tekmark Global Solutions provides information technology services, telephony services, and business solutions to a broad range of Fortune 100 and 500 companies worldwide. Their client list comprises top companies in the financial services, telecommunications, technology, insurance, health care, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, and electronics industries. Tekmark's expertise lies in developing and integrating information systems, operating and improving technology and business processes, and helping clients evolve to the next generation of technology. As one of the largest privately held information technology companies in the United States, Tekmark Global Solutions provides their world wide clients with information technology and telephony solutions. For more information, please visit www.tekmarkinc.com.

About Miro Consulting, Inc.
New Jersey based Miro Consulting (www.miroconsulting.com) specializes in helping clients to negotiate Oracle licensing and consulting contracts, and to renegotiate existing ones, helping to significantly lower the cost of Oracle ownership for its 200+ clients located primarily throughout North America, including many represented within the Fortune 500. Founded in August 2000, Miro is privately held. NJBIZ magazine recently ranked Miro Consulting one of New Jersey's 50 Fastest Growing Companies.

Since 2000, Miro has saved its clients over $41 million in Oracle licensing and license support cost and overseen over $417 million in Oracle transactions.

Contact:

Norman Booth or Hilary Halliwell, Keating Co., 973.966.1100
nbooth@keatingco.com
hhalliwell@keatingco.com

Jill Hellman, Director Media Relations, 201.242.1833
jill.hellman@miroconsulting.com

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