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CenterStone Software Announces $5.5 Million Financing Round; Investment Will Expand Sales and Marketing Momentum for CenterStone's Integrated Solutions to Improve Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Performance.


HOPKINTON, Mass. -- CenterStone Software, Inc., a leading provider of solutions to manage corporate real estate, facilities and workplace operations, today announced that it has secured $5.5 million in Series D financing from its current investors. The round was led by Egan-Managed Capital, a venture capital firm that supports New England-based technology companies, and includes Trans-National Group, Velocity Equity Partners and the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation. CenterStone has raised a total of $15.4 million in venture capital.

This investment will allow CenterStone to expand its sales, marketing and solution development initiatives in the fast-growing Integrated Workplace Management Systems An Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) is an enterprise platform that supports the planning, design and management of an organization's physical asset base. IWMS systems assist organisations in optimising the use and administration of workplace resources, one of the most  (IWMS IWMS Integrated Workplace Management System
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) market. The company's Web-based eCenterOne solution is helping more than 50 of the world's largest organizations, including AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD)
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, Dell, sanofi-aventis and Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. , save millions of dollars in occupancy costs Occupancy costs are the whole life costs of buildings and their associated land from occupancy until disposal. These costs may be incurred on a regular or irregular basis. Occupancy costs are those costs related to occupying a space including; rent, real estate taxes, personal  every year by automating key workplace business processes, improving portfolio utilization and unlocking the information needed to make more informed real estate and operational decisions.

"CenterStone is solving complex, strategic business challenges for a growing blue-chip client roster, with innovative, highly-differentiated solutions," said John R. Egan, Managing Partner, Egan-Managed Capital. "This new investment round reflects the confidence of our entire investment group in CenterStone's leadership, vision and execution and the opportunity to accelerate its growth in this fast-emerging market."

"The integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) market continues to demonstrate strong customer demand for broadly functional, scalable solutions vs. more-specialized point solutions," noted Gartner Research Vice President Michael Bell
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. "Several forces have converged to propel the market forward. These include a growing emphasis on workflow and process management, with a desire by organizations to integrate workplace management processes across the facilities asset life cycle."(1)

CenterStone has grown by nearly 100% annually for the past two years with a flexible business model that is primarily an on-demand, subscription-based ASP service, which simplifies procurement for many clients and is easy to deploy and use, and also supports traditional, self-hosted deployments that allow clients to capitalize their software purchases.

"As companies of all sizes increasingly focus on the bottom line, CenterStone has achieved fast growth by helping clients to better manage one of their largest expense lines, enhance shareholder value and turn their real estate portfolio into a strategic advantage," said Andrew Sherman, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of CenterStone Software. "This additional support from our investors gives CenterStone the opportunity to secure and expand its leadership position in the IWMS market."

About CenterStone Software, Inc.

CenterStone Software helps many of the world's largest organizations to manage their space, facilities, personnel, assets, leases and workplace operations more efficiently, strengthen executive planning and decision-making, optimize portfolio utilization and save millions of dollars in occupancy costs every year. Market leaders such as AIG, Dell, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything  and sanofi-aventis are using CenterStone's Web-based eCenterOne solution to automate workplace processes such as space planning, corporate moves, employee on-boarding, allocations and chargebacks and work orders. As a pioneer in the growing Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) market, CenterStone was founded in 1999. The company is headquartered in Hopkinton, MA and has its West Coast sales and services office in San Mateo San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , CA, and regional offices across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . For more information, please call (508) 435-1510 or visit www.centerstonesoft.com.

CenterStone and eCenterOne are trademarks of CenterStone Software, Inc. All other logos, company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

(1)Gartner, Inc., 2005 Market Update: Integrated Workplace Management Systems, May 2005
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