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KEMA Joins Google Enterprise Professional Program

New KEMA services help utilities capture critical knowledge and experience of retiring workforce

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BURLINGTON, Mass., (April 28, 2008) – Faced with a graying workforce, utilities are seeking ways to
retain the knowledge and experience of their retiring professionals. KEMA has joined the Google
Enterprise Professional program and is offering a new line of services that helps utilities capture the
knowledge of their aging workforce by extending the power of Google across the enterprise.
“With an estimated 50 percent of the utility workforce retiring in the next 5 to 10 years, utilities face the
reality of losing much of the knowledge and experience so critical to their operations,” said Dr. Gregory
Reed, senior vice president of KEMA, Inc. “As part of the Google Enterprise Professional Program, KEMA
can help utilities capture and organize knowledge content of departing employees so that new employees
can continue to deliver reliable energy and services to their customers.”
Reed continued, “Google’s enterprise search products offer the same quality search experience that
people are accustomed to with Google.com. This makes organizing and retrieving the vast body of
knowledge required to run a utility more manageable and efficient.”
The Google Enterprise Professional program includes developers, consultants and independent software
vendors that provide value-added services for Google enterprise products.
“Google is excited to have KEMA, Inc. as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional program. We’re
looking forward to KEMA enhancing the power of Google search by providing knowledge capture services
to its utility customers,” said Brent VerWeyst, Search Partner Lead, Google Enterprise.
For more information on KEMA’s operations and planning knowledge tools solutions, visit
www.kema.com/opkt.
For more information on the Google Enterprise Professional program, please visit
www.google.com/enterprise/gep.
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About KEMA
Founded in 1927, KEMA (www.kema.com ) is a global provider of business and technical consulting, operational support, measurement and inspection, testing and certification for the energy and utility industry. KEMA employs 1,600 professionals in 20 countries. The firm’s North American consulting operations are headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts. KEMA’s global headquarters are in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
Media contacts (www.kema.com/press_releases ):
• North America: Kristen Brewitt ( kristen.brewitt@kema.com )
tel +1 781 418 5714
• Europe: Rolf van Stenus ( rolf.vanstenus@kema.com )
tel +31 26 3 56 2607
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