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HouseMark To Participate in Pilot Program For SunGard Public Sector’s Aspiren Data Analytics Service

October 21, 2009 — London, UK

SunGard Public Sector today announced that HouseMark has agreed to participate in a pilot program for their Aspiren data analytics service.  The service uses intelligent data modeling and analytical techniques to unlock intelligence and valuable insight from large amounts of data.

HouseMark is the primary supplier of membership-based benchmarking services to the UK social housing sector. They are jointly owned by Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) and the National Housing Federation (NHF) and their benchmarking services help organisations to improve performance and achieve value for money.

HouseMark currently has more than 840 members made up of housing associations, arms length management organisations (ALMO’s) and local authorities.  Their members provide data on an annual basis feeding their benchmarking system.  They are headquartered at Coventry University and employ over 40 staff.

Chief executive officer of HouseMark Ross Fraser said, “We have recently engaged SunGard Public Sector to help us undertake statistical analysis of the data we collect from our members.  We want to deploy statistical analysis as an added value service in a manner that generates business intelligence for our members and helps to inform the policy debate.  We believe that SunGard's input will add significant value to our capability in this area.”

Ray Fielding, president of SunGard Public Sector’s Aspiren business unit, commented: ‘We are looking forward to this pilot engagement and hope it is the first of many as SunGard Public Sector and HouseMark continue to forge a strong relationship for the future.”

About SunGard Public Sector UK
SunGard Public Sector UK serves a wide range of customers - public safety and justice agencies, local and central government and third sector organisations. Solutions include public safety and justice applications as well as systems integration, outsourced managed services, professional services, business process improvement and management consulting.

SunGard Public Sector was awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category 2008, for its continued development of public safety systems, contributing to control room improvements and thereby helping save lives. In the UK more than 40 million citizens are served by agencies that rely on SunGard Public Sector solutions. Visit SunGard Public Sector UK at www.sungardps.co.uk.

About SunGard
SunGard is one of the world’s leading software and IT services companies.  SunGard serves more than 25,000 customers in more than 70 countries.

SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector.   SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software.

With annual revenue exceeding $5 billion, SunGard is ranked 435 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and services company on the Forbes list of private businesses. Based on information compiled by Datamonitor*, SunGard is the third largest provider of business applications software after Oracle and SAP. Continuity, Insurance & Risk has recognized SunGard as service provider of the year an unprecedented six times.  For more information, please visit SunGard at www.sungard.com.

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