HOUSTON, March 25, 2008 – Stonebridge today is announcing a new strategic partnership with IDV Solutions, a global location intelligence and visualization software and solutions company, through which Stonebridge will integrate IDV Solutions’ Visual Fusion Server® with Well360°®, Stonebridge’s reference architecture for oil and gas information management. 

The companies, both Microsoft Gold Certified partners, are making the announcement at Microsoft’s 2008 Global Energy Forum. Stonebridge is also providing a demonstration of Well360° with Visual Fusion at Booth 16 in the exhibit hall.

Travis Osborne, General Manager of Stonebridge Oil and Gas Solutions consulting practice, said, “Stonebridge’s mission is to enable our customers to capture, deliver, and manage their data assets in order to make better, more informed decisions. Partnering with IDV Solutions helps us take our Well360°® oil and gas industry solutions to a higher level by providing our customers with a better way to understand their data through data visualization.”

Well360° is a reference architecture developed by Stonebridge to provide upstream oil and gas companies with business-driven operational standards for more effective information management. The Well360° architecture addresses one of the biggest operational problems facing the oil and gas industry: the inability to leverage data and documents related to well assets. Stonebridge has created a portfolio of defined oil and gas solutions – including well master data management, well file management, well analytics, and new well setup – all based on the Well360° solution framework.

Ian Clemens, Chief Technology Officer for IDV Solutions, said, “We are very pleased to join with Stonebridge in delivering advanced data integration and information management solutions to the oil and gas industry. We believe the combination of Well360° and Visual Fusion has the potential not only to revolutionize how information is presented to and consumed by users in oil and gas companies, but also to revolutionize how our oil and gas customers access, analyze and act on their data to gain a competitive advantage.”

In January IDV Solutions announced a new release of Visual Fusion Server (VFS).  VFS 3.0 is the most comprehensive visual composite application platform in the market. VFS goes beyond typical enterprise mashups to integrate with and extend Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, connect to any data source or Web service, and empower users to create compelling, interactive, actionable composites of data and services focused on solving real business needs.

About IDV Solutions

IDV Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, is a visual composite applications company. Our suite of products, Visual Fusion Suite™, helps organizations engage their enterprise data in an interactive, easy to use, web-based environment. We are committed to helping Global 2000 and government organizations make their information more accessible, understandable, and contextual. Through the visual integration of numerous data sources, IDV delivers intuitive and compelling composite applications placing their data only a mouse click away.

About Stonebridge

Stonebridge, an independent IT consulting and systems integration company, delivers data management and data integration solutions that improve process efficiency, reporting and analysis, corporate governance and business continuity. Our core competencies include process improvement/process automation, business intelligence/data warehousing, enterprise content management, custom application development and database management services.