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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMC JOINS INDUSTRY INITIATIVE TO HELP UPSTREAM
OIL AND GAS FIRMS MANAGE INFORMATON RISK AND
MEET REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
RSA Archer eGRC Suite is Planned to Support the Microsoft Upstream Reference
Architecture and Visibly Manage Risk and Automate Policy Enforcement across Physical and
Virtualized Upstream IT Environments
EAGE CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION, BARCELONA, SPAIN – June 14, 2010 – EMC
Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced participation in the Microsoft Upstream Reference
Architecture Initiative that has been developed through an ongoing collaboration of industry
participants led by Microsoft. As a result, the RSA1 Archer eGRC Suite from EMC’s security
division is planned to align with the resulting IT reference architecture in order to help upstream
oil & gas firms better manage the lifecycle of corporate policies and objectives, analyze and
respond to enterprise risks, and demonstrate compliance.
“We welcome EMC to the Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture Initiative. This
collaboration of Microsoft and its industry partners will provide the upstream oil and gas
industry with solutions that unite business applications, processes, people and data to facilitate
more consistent workflows throughout lines of business and the information infrastructure,” said
Ali Ferling, managing director of Worldwide Oil and Gas Industries at Microsoft.
Upstream oil & gas companies require efficient, open systems in order to effectively
manage corporate policy, improve audit controls and protect valuable information. Critical to this
is the ability to unify views and management capabilities with business processes across IT,
finance, exploration and production (E&P) operations and legal domains. The RSA Archer
eGRC Suite is designed to help upstream IT organizations meet all of these challenges as well as
improve the ability to comply with regulations such as the EU IPPC Directive, U.S. SarbanesOxley Act and ISO/IEC 17799 & 14064.
“The upstream oil & gas industry creates vast amounts of information through
exploration, such as reservoir models and data-rich images generated by digital sensors. This
data is essentially intellectual property that needs to be governed, protected and leveraged to
meet compliance throughout the information infrastructure and the rest of the business,” said
Timothy Voyt, Director, Global Energy Program at EMC Corporation. “To help meet this
challenge, the RSA Archer eGRC Suite can provide upstream IT organizations with deep insight
into enterprise information and management of business processes, security and policy.”
EMC solutions are deployed in more than 95 percent of the oil and gas companies listed
on the Forbes Global 2000. EMC Oil and Gas Solutions help accelerate discovery of
hydrocarbons, streamline production operations, reduce operating costs, enhance compliance,
minimize downtime, enable collaboration, and mitigate risk by optimizing and strategically
leveraging information assets.
EMC Oil and Gas Solutions will be demonstrated at booth #160 at the 72nd EAGE
Conference & Exhibition, from June 14-17 in Barcelona, Spain.
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Archer Technologies was acquired by EMC in January 2010 and is part of RSA, The Security Division of EMC.
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