Spescom Partners With MRO Software to Address the Energy and Utility Markets in the US and Europe
21 September 2004 - 11:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Spescom Partners With MRO Software to Address the Energy and
Utility Markets in the US and Europe New Alliance Provides
'Best-in-Class' Solution to Plant Owners / Operators SAN DIEGO,
Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spescom Software Inc (OTC:SPCO)
(BULLETIN BOARD: SPCO) , a leading provider of enterprise content
and configuration management solutions today announced that it has
entered into a marketing alliance with MRO Software, the world's
leading provider of Strategic Asset Management solutions. In terms
of this alliance, Spescom Software and MRO Software will undertake
joint marketing activities as well as recommend a joint solution
that combines both companies' products and services into a complete
solution for its customers and prospects. MRO Software is a global
company based in Bedford, Mass., with approximately 900 employees,
10,000 customers and more than 260,000 end-users. It's flagship
asset management solution, MAXIMO(R), optimizes performance,
improves productivity and service levels and enables asset-related
sourcing and procurement across the entire spectrum of strategic
assets. MAXIMO allows customers to manage the complete lifecycle of
their strategic assets including: planning, procurement,
deployment, tracking, maintenance and retirement. "The combined
eB/MAXIMO solution extends the asset management capabilities of
MAXIMO by enabling the management of asset configuration and all
associated documents and drawings throughout the life cycle of the
assets," said Johan Arts, vice president of industry marketing, MRO
Software. "It also provides a 'best-in-class' change and
configuration management process that enables the impact of any
proposed change to be assessed as well as ensuring that all
approved document changes are fully implemented. This ensures
conformance between the design basis of a plant, the physical
configuration of the plant and all documents and drawings that
relate to the plant." In terms of the agreement, the initial focus
will be on customers in the energy and utility markets with a major
emphasis on the nuclear sector. The nuclear sector in particular
has embraced the need for effective configuration and change
management as evidenced by new standards such as the ANSI/NIRMA
CM1.0-2000 "Guidelines for the Configuration Management of Nuclear
Facilities," the Standard Nuclear Performance Model (SNPM) standard
AP-929 and the new DOE-STD-1073-2003 "DOE Standard Configuration
Management." "We are very excited about the alliance with MRO
Software," said Carl Mostert, Spescom Software's CEO. "We target
the same markets and have many common customers. Many plant owners
and operators have suffered in the past from the lack of accurate
information about their plant, and we plan to deliver an approach
that provides a strong return on investment. By working together
with MRO, we can offer them an integrated solution that fully
addresses their asset and information management needs. Driving
down operational costs while ensuring regulatory compliance is one
of the key objectives of the alliance." About Spescom Software
Spescom Software (OTC:SPCO) (BULLETIN BOARD: SPCO) delivers
information management solutions that capture, manage and control
all enterprise content in context to the assets, products and
processes that it relates to, resulting in improved customer
satisfaction, productivity and safety. It achieves this through a
tightly integrated suite of document, configuration and records
management technologies, combined with a powerful workflow
capability, that enables the identification of all critical
enterprise information, the effective management of change and
other business processes and the maintaining of records to ensure
regulatory compliance. Key customers include Constellation Energy,
Continental Express, AmerenUE, Cities of Las Vegas and Dayton,
Lloyds Register, United Space Alliance, Entergy, Northeast
Utilities, London Underground, Network Rail, and many others. About
Spescom eB eB(R) is a registered trademark of Spescom Software Inc.
eB comprises an extensive set of software components that together
form the foundation for an extremely flexible and powerful
information management platform. eB's components include:
content/document management; requirements management; records
management; item management; change management; configuration
management and workflow. These components are tightly integrated
with leading CAD, GIS, office and email applications to capture,
store and view information. The full functionality of eB is
available via a set of API's that enable the rapid definition and
deployment of customer specific solutions and integration with
other line-of-business applications including ERP, EAM, SCM and
project management products. Except for historical information
contained herein, the matters set forth in this release include
forward-looking statements that are dependent on certain risks and
uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market
acceptance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory
environment, the effect of the company's accounting policies,
potential seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the
company's SEC filings. For further information please contact: Carl
Mostert, CEO, or John Low, CFO, both of Spescom Software Inc,
+1-858-625-3000 DATASOURCE: Spescom Software Inc CONTACT: Carl
Mostert, CEO, or John Low, CFO, both of Spescom Software Inc,
+1-858-625-3000 Web site: http://www.spescomsoftware.com/
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