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Enterra Solutions and International Resources Group Sign Stategic Alliance to Support Development in Emerging Markets

RESTON, Va. and WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 7, 2007) –Enterra Solutions and International Resources Group today announced a strategic alliance that will combine industry best practices and effective technology solutions with international development expertise to create tools to support economic growth in emerging market countries.

This partnership brings together Enterra Solutions’ unique framework for implementing international standards and best practices in emerging economies with IRG’s seasoned international development expertise and quality, cost-effective services that for over 25 years have successfully promoted positive economic growth around the world. Working together, they will provide clients with this automated yet adaptable framework that helps generate confidence within the global economic system by assuring stakeholders that an emerging market country and its companies, eager to gain access to cross-border transactions, are utilizing trusted business practices and processes.

Enterra Solutions' model provides highly adaptable automated rule sets and best practices that ease access for developing countries. It enables a client country to take policy recommendations and using these systematic rule sets, find practical solutions that allow it to compete more successfully in a global economy. Paired with IRG’s services that promote the intelligent use of human, physical, environmental and financial resources, it offers a new framework for managing the critical functions, processes, people and technologies that require integrating security, compliance and performance management.

"IRG's sterling reputation for delivering global professional services means that together we can bring greater value to our clients and allow those most in need of practical solutions to more easily jump start economies. We are thrilled to have IRG as a strategic partner." said Stephen F. DeAngelis, president and chief executive officer of Enterra Solutions. "For governments and non-governmental organizations that have struggled to move from policy recommendations to implementation, this alliance will help decision makers easily adopt practical solutions despite limited infrastructure and economic development know how in order to compete more successfully in a global economy. They will no longer have to reinvent processes for their own use in order to embrace the benefits of globalization."

"Enterra Solutions' unique technological approach to development challenges and its state-of-the-art automated but highly adaptable business process solutions enhance the professional services offerings for which IRG is well known," said Asif Shaikh, IRG president and chief executive officer. "Both Enterra Solutions and IRG are proud of their reputations as intellectual leaders in the globalization, development and security arenas. But the business of development is evolving and now, together, we believe we can offer our clients even greater value than in the past as we work toward building a better future for those living in poverty around the world."

Enterra Solutions (www.enterrasolutions.com)
Enterra Solutions, at www.enterrasolutions.com, is the leader in Enterprise Resilience Management™ - a new enterprise architecture that enables public- and private-sector organizations to respond to the stressors that result from globalization, rapid technological change, terrorism, natural disasters, and other 21st century challenges. Enterra's proprietary Enterprise Resilience Management Solution™ (ERMS™) consists of a best-practices methodology and technology solution that automates rules sets and integrates security, compliance and business process optimization into a single function, and provides a platform that transforms the organization into a Resilient Enterprise™.

International Resources Group (www.irgltd.com)
Since 1978, IRG has completed over 750 contracts in 137 countries, delivering high-quality, costeffective services that promote positive economic growth, institutional and social change, and intelligent use of resources-human, physical, environmental, and financial. IRG’s international development staff includes world-renowned specialists who have pioneered many of the analytical techniques used in their fields. IRG’s ability to provide management, economic, and technical advice is further enhanced by the diversity, cross-cultural experience, foreign language skills, and management capabilities of its staff. IRG provides professional services in two main areas: general management and institutional strengthening services to public and private sector clients in the United States and around the world; and, international development services to the U.S. Agency for International Development, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and others, governments, and organizations.

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