RALEIGH, NC – June 11, 2013 – TopQuadrant™, a leading semantic data integration company, today announced Norwegian based IT consulting company Computas has been selected as its first Global Certified TopBraid Solutions Partner. As a result, Computas will sell and support TopQuadrant solutions products and services across the globe.

TopQuadrant’s TopBraid solutions enable customers to connect silos of data, metadata, systems and infrastructure to build flexible applications from linked data models. Computas is a leading solution provider for both the Norwegian government and the oil and gas industry including many of the foremost companies with significant operations on Norway’s Continental Shelf.

“We are now experiencing an increasing demand for semantic solutions to ensure an efficient and high-quality coupling of data across logical structures and technological limitations. Becoming a TopQuadrant partner fits into Computas’ goal of being a global player within Semantic Web Technology. The successful cooperation between TopQuadrant and Computas has already materialized in several contracts and joint opportunities in the European market,” stated Trond Eilertsen, CEO of Computas.

Recently, Computas announced that in partnership with TopQuadrant it has won a new contract with the Exploration & Production Information Management Association (EPIM). EPIM is a nonprofit organization owned and managed by operators on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Its objective is to provide IT solutions that facilitate the best possible information flow between industry players.

Computas is engaged to develop for EPIM a new EnvironmentHub solution using TopQuadrant capabilities and tools. EnvironmentHub will be used for reporting emissions to air, discharges to sea and radiation on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) to the authorities. It will provide a flexible semantic web standards based platform for environmental reporting and data integration. EPIM is very familiar with TopQuadrant, which developed its ReportingHub system, a standards based information-exchange solution that utilizes semantic web standards to store, query and analyze exploration and production data.

“Computas exceeded stringent qualifications to become TopQuadrant’s first Global Certified TopBraid Solutions Partner. The Computas team is extremely skilled and well acquainted with TopBraid solutions along with how to best leverage them in deployed projects. Together, we look forward to more joint commercialization efforts similar to EPIM” stated Irene Polikoff, CEO of TopQuadrant.

About Computas

Computas is a Norwegian based IT consulting company that provides services and solutions for business process management and collaboration, including system development, project management and advisory services. The company is characterized by its unique experience, high level of quality in all its projects and close cooperation with its customers, which include major players in the public sector, as well as leading companies in the oil and gas sector. Computas also holds the market leading specialists in Semantic Technology and is strongly focused on the opportunities in leveraging Big Data. The company has 220 employees and a turnover in 2012 of MNOK 262.3 with a profit before tax of MNOK 18.3. Computas is an independent IT consulting company and is owned by its employees. For more information, please visit www.computas.com.

bout TopQuadrant

Founded in 2001, TopQuadrant’s standards-based solutions enable a semantic ecosystem among people, applications and data – lowering the cost of ownership and enabling intelligent, data-driven action. Its TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net™ is a web-based solution for simplified development and management of enterprise vocabularies to enrich search and enable discovery of enterprise data through connected and governed metadata. Its TopBraid Suite™ is a smart data services platform to help customers connect silos of data, systems and infrastructure and to build agile business applications from linked data models. TopQuadrant customers include government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies in many industries including pharmaceutical, financial services, energy and digital media. For more information, visit http://www.topquadrant.com.