"As Chairman of the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management I am pleased to offer the following endorsement of the Centric system.

I have been sceptical of the claims of software systems and products, as my experience has been that the quoted cost and time to implement such systems often tends to be double the budgeted amount and the installed systems deliver considerably less than the value and capability originally promised.

I am pleased to say that Centric has proved my previous experience wrong. I am happy to offer them this endorsement in hope that others in the research sector will benefit from their experience, capability and commitment to achieve a solid reporting and governance foundation as they have for us.

Centric delivered and continues to provide a system that helps us to:

� better manage and assess project progress,

� monitor cash and in-kind and,

� provide meaningful reports to assist in managing the CRC.

Consequently we are better placed to effectively monitor our progress and implement appropriate governance processes than we were before the installation of Centric.

I am happy to commend Centric to other CRC's and am confident that its implementation in your CRC will enhance your ability to effectively manage your organisation."