Chevron Technology Ventures Invests in SchemaLogic
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Kirkland, Washington - October 29, 2007
-SchemaLogic, the leading provider of Business Semantics Management
software for Global 5000 companies, today announced Chevron has
chosen SchemaLogic Enterprise Suite as a critical software
component for the company's Global Information Link (GIL3)
initiative. This strategic initiative defines Chevron's overall
information management strategy, global hardware and software
architecture and operating environment for its 56,000 employees in
180 countries.
In addition, CTTV Investments LLC, the Venture Capital arm of
Chevron Technology Ventures, will be investing in SchemaLogic,
adding to the Company's latest investment round announced in July
led by Goldman Sachs.
"We are thrilled to have the financial backing from Chevron
Technology Ventures as we continue to experience great momentum
expanding our business into new markets such as the oil and gas
industry," commented Jeff Dirks, president and CEO of SchemaLogic.
"And, as we move forward with Chevron on their GIL3 initiative, we
are happy to help them provide employees with the ability to
accurately access distributed information when they need it,
helping Chevron maximize how it leverages its key information
assets on a global basis."
Chevron Corporation, the second largest integrated energy
company in the United States and one of the largest corporations in
the world, has embarked on developing and rolling out its third
generation "Global Information Link." GIL3's technical architecture
includes all desktop, infrastructure and information management
systems worldwide.
As a critical component of GIL3, Chevron is deploying Microsoft®
Office SharePoint® Server (MOSS) 2007 globally as its primary
collaboration and content management platform for Microsoft Office
documents. When completed, this will be one of the largest
implementations of SharePoint in the world. Critical to the success
of the project is the implementation of a File Plan model to ensure
that digital information assets are described in a consistent way
across the enterprise. Chevron has selected SchemaLogic as the only
enterprise-scalable software for management and collaboration of
its corporate File Plan, integration of their managed File Plan
within Microsoft SharePoint, and synchronization of the evolving
Business Semantics across the entire global SharePoint
environment.
This global File Plan ensures that documents and other information
can be stored, retrieved and shared across the enterprise. The
overarching File Plan defines the Business Semantics used for
describing the content in SharePoint and managing the application
of Chevron's classic Records Management activities, which are
critical for regulatory compliance and risk mitigation. As a result
of the GIL3 initiative, Chevron is improving governance over their
content, resulting in improved regulatory compliance and
information access to the millions of documents housed in its
repository.
"Given our global reach, it is critical that our employees
communicate and work together in a collaborative environment that
is easy and common across the organization," said Lynn Chou,
Chevron's general manager of global technology and strategy.
"SharePoint provides us with a platform to collaborate on document
creation and management. SchemaLogic provides the essential
software to help Chevron standardize on a corporate-wide vocabulary
to manage our information, which is absolutely critical for
regulatory compliance and risk mitigation."
About SchemaLogic
Our software provides global companies a powerful and
cost-effective approach to dealing with the overwhelming amount of
information critical to doing business today. People from diverse
groups must be able to access and share information across complex
systems throughout their enterprise. In order to do this,
descriptions, tags and categorizations of information must be
accurate and consistent.
SchemaLogic provides Business Semantics Management (BSM)
software for companies to manage and connect the different
vocabularies used to describe information, aligning content
management and search systems and allowing people to find and share
corporate 'know-how' across their enterprise. The Company has
licensed software to some of the largest companies in the world,
including Associated Press, Chevron, Corbis and Reed Business
Information. To learn more about SchemaLogic, please visit www.schemalogic.com.
About Chevron Corporation
Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is one of the world's leading energy companies.
With approximately 56,000 employees, Chevron subsidiaries conduct
business in more than 180 countries around the world, producing and
transporting crude oil and natural gas, and refining, marketing and
distributing fuels and other energy products. Chevron is based in
San Ramon, Calif. More information about Chevron is available at http://www.chevron.com.