Merrick Systems and Aclaro Softworks Sign Technical Alliance
September 5, 2002 (Houston, TX) - Merrick Systems, Inc. and Aclaro Softworks, Inc. have signed a collaborative Technical Alliance Agreement to promote and deliver the seamless integration among their respective products. Aclaro Softworks, Inc. is a leading provider of web-based integration, data analysis and reporting solutions for the oil and gas industry. PetroLook, Aclaro’s first commercial product, is a business intelligence application that automatically integrates multiple data sources to allow comprehensive analysis and generation of rich reports and graphs.
“Our customers want flexibility in the ways they can integrate, manipulate and report their production data with other technical and business information,” said Kemal Farid, president of Merrick Systems, Inc. “By partnering with Aclaro, our clients can have an advanced reporting solution that seamlessly integrates the data in Merrick’s suite of products with other company information. The power of PetroLook lies in its ability to deliver customized, web-based, corporate-wide reports and charts that connect to any combination of database or spreadsheet applications,” said Farid.
“Data integration and analysis are major issues in the oil and gas industry today,” said Christoph Faig, a founder and director of Aclaro. “By combining our expertise in web-based reporting and data-integration with Merrick’s field data capture, production and plant allocation, and data warehousing capabilities, we will be able to deliver enterprise-wide solutions for production operations data access, even across disparate data sources,” said Faig.
About Aclaro Softworks, Inc.
Aclaro provides web-based data integration, conversion and reporting solutions for the oil and gas industry. Aclaro’s founders are former oil and gas professionals and are specialists in data analysis and reporting. Their innovative applications and customer focus have established Aclaro as a leader in Internet solutions for the oil and gas industry. Aclaro is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta with an office in Houston. For more information, please visit www.aclaro.com.
About Merrick Systems, Inc.
Merrick Systems develops operational client/server software for the oil and gas industry. The company provides integrated software systems for field data capture, production accounting, plant allocations, regulatory reporting, production data management, and reservoir modeling and analysis. Merrick is headquartered in Houston with offices in Lafayette, Calgary and Vienna. The company’s website is: www.MerrickSystems.com.

