LONDON, December 4 /PRNewswire/ --

- SaaS Specialist Selects ASPGulf as Managed Hosting Provider

BIW Technologies (BIW) has implemented a new locally hosted
infrastructure to support its Middle East customers. BIW, a global leader in
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to support the architecture,
engineering, construction, property and infrastructure sectors, is now
delivering improved services to its end users and ensuring its applications
and its client data are securely hosted within the region.

BIW opened its Middle East office in Dubai in 2006 and after winning
several major commissions in the region decided to augment its UK hosting
facilities to maintain consistently high levels of service. After researching
the market, it chose ASPGulf for its commitment to meeting BIW's requirements
for hosting mission-critical software and data.

"Establishing a new managed hosting infrastructure in the UAE
demonstrates BIW's commitment to our local customers' needs," says Asif
Sharif, BIW's general manager, Middle East. "BIW has several strong customer
relationships and our technology is being employed on numerous prestigious
developments. With the recent launch of a BIW helpdesk supporting the Gulf
region, our partnership with ASPGulf further underlines our focus on quality
of service in the Middle East market."

ASPGulf deploys its clients' web servers in two internet data centres
which are constructed to world-class hosting standards, in Abu Dhabi and
Dubai. The latter -used by BIW - has recently been enhanced and is one of the
most sophisticated centres in the region. Its facilities are also designed to
cater for disaster recovery requirements with redundancy being built in at
all levels - equipment, network, electricity, connectivity and location.

Chris Jaguros, general manager at ASPGulf said: "We are delighted at
BIW's decision to work with us. BIW is well-known within the construction
collaboration market for its exacting hosting requirements, and it was a
challenging commission to win. We are already developing detailed plans to
enhance the service resilience we provide for BIW and its regional customers
and end-users."

In October 2007, BIW established an office in India. This was set up as
an additional centre for customer support across the Middle East, and to
provide additional resources to work with BIW's UK-based product management
and software teams on the continued development of BIW's core products.

Notes to editors

About BIW:

- Project collaboration services from BIW Technologies
(http://www.biwtech.com) were first employed in 1999 on UK construction
projects for Sainsbury's. BIW believes it is the European leader in
web-based collaboration systems for the construction and property
industry, measured by numbers of users, usage and volume of data. It is
supporting projects in more than 20 countries across Europe, the Middle
East, Asia and Australasia. BIW opened an office in Dubai in 2006 and a
base in India in October 2007.

- BIW Technologies Middle East is based at 7th Floor, Dubai
World Trade Centre, PO Box 9204, Dubai, UAE.

- The BIW platform is a sophisticated web-based supply chain
integration technology, designed specifically for construction projects
or programmes. Each client is provided with a unique, project or
programme-specific website created around a knowledge database. With
this, data can be made available securely to every team member - from the
earliest concepts, through detailed design, buildability studies,
pre-fabrication, construction, maintenance, operation and improvement to
the eventual demolition or dismantling of the facility.

- BIW customers include United Utilities, Sainsbury's, BAA, housebuilders
Crest Nicholson and the Peabody Trust, Marks & Spencer, the UK Ministry of
Defence, the Wellcome Trust, Mace, Bovis Lend Lease, Kajima, Gleeds and
Fitzpatrick, and developers Land Securities, Ballymore, Dandara and Garbe.

- BIW is a registered trademark of BIW Technologies Ltd.

About ASPGulf:

- ASPGulf.com Ltd (http://www.aspgulf.com) provides a complete suite of
application and managed hosting services to support businesses 365 days a
year. Services are provided to the company's clients over the Internet or
secured communication lines from ASPGulf's centrally managed state-of-the-art
data centres and communication infrastructure facilities.

More information from:

- Paul Wilkinson, BIW head of corporate communications - tel:
+44(0)1483-712620 or mobile +44(0)7788-445920, email
paul.wilkinson@biwtech.com

- Asif Sharif, BIW general manager, Middle East - tel: 
+971-50-4245287, email asif.sharif@biwtech.com

- Bhupesh Mehta, Channel Partner Manager, ASPGulf - tel:
+971-4-391-6855 Ext. 151 or mobile +971-50-5524-889 , email
bhupesh.mehta@aspgulf.com or marketing@aspgulf.com