BroadVision Empowers Saipem's Intranet Evolution

Saipem Improves Workforce Productivity and Collaboration by Implementing Corporate Intranet on BroadVision Business Agility Suite

BroadVision Empowers Saipem’s Intranet Evolution

BroadVision, Inc., (OTCBB:BVIS), a global provider of strategic e-business solutions, today announces that Saipem S.p.A. ( www.saipem.it ), one of the largest contractors in the oil and gas industry worldwide, has chosen BroadVision® Business Agility Suite™ solution for its new Corporate Intranet.

The objective of this initiative is to construct a centralized and homogeneous Intranet application that is able to seamlessly convey the internal communication through the company and which would allow employees to have a collaboration space to share information and tools in order to improve overall company efficiency.

BroadVision was selected primarily due to its flexibility and scalability in the areas of user management, profiling and personalisation. When compared with other similar products BroadVision provided a rich solution that fulfils both the functional and technical requirements of Saipem. Furthermore the “openness” of the solution meant that Saipem is not tied down to one platform and the integration to other systems was made less complex.

Vinicio Mazzei, IT Manager at Saipem declared: “We were looking for a solution to easily manage internal company information to deliver personalized content and services to all Saipem employees. Furthermore, we needed flexibility and open standards in order to integrate our intranet with several back end systems; we chose BroadVision because it better satisfied our requirements. Our corporate Portal went live and after two months of production activities, we never had serious failures thanks to its robustness and stability.”

“Personalization has always been our main key differentiator since BroadVision was founded 15 years ago,” said Andrea Rubei, Vice President and General Manager of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at BroadVision. “But only in the recent years customers started to deeply use it for their web applications, with huge improvements of productivity. As a matter of fact the most important thing for a Web user is to quickly get the needed information without wasting time to search it. We are looking forward to serve Saipem to better support its internal users and to add more and more functionalities to its Intranet Portal.”

About Saipem

Saipem, 43% owned by Eni S.p.A., is a leader in the provision of engineering, procurement, project management and construction services, with a strong bias towards oil & gas related activities in remote areas and deepwater. Saipem employs over 30,000 people of more than 100 different nationalities and is organised in three Business Units: Offshore, onshore and drilling.

About BroadVision

Driving innovation since 1993, BroadVision is a global provider of strategic e-business solutions. Our modular applications and agile tool-sets, built on a robust framework for personalization and self-service, power mission-critical web initiatives that deliver unparalleled value to diverse customers worldwide. Hundreds of organizations, serving over 50 million registered users — including Baker Hughes, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Epson America, Fiat, Hilti, Iberia, ING Bank, PETCO, Prime Polymer, Vodafone and Xerox — rely on BroadVision as their choice for e-business.

For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650-331-1000, email mediarelations@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com .

BroadVision and Business Agility Suite are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. either in the United States and other countries. All other company names, product names, and marks are the property of their respective owners.

Contact:

BroadVision, Inc.
Tina Jade Wong, 650-331-3297
Director of Marketing
mediarelations@broadvision.com
or
BroadVision UK Ltd.
Stefano Gargioli, +39 687908648
Regional Manager – Southern EMEA
Stefano.Gargioli@broadvision.com