Spescom Software Inc, the US subsidiary of JSE-listed ICT group, Spescom Ltd, today announced that SEMPRA ENERGY has selected its eB product for a number of applications throughout its operations.
SEMPRA ENERGY is a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services company with over 12 000 employees. It provides a wide range of value added electric and gas products and services to a diverse range of customers.
Sempra Energy will initially deploy eB in the Land Management Department of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and the Real Estate and Facilities Department of Southern California Gas, both Sempra subsidiaries. It will enable users to access over two million real estate documents using the Spescom eB Document Management (DM) application and eB GIS-Connect, an out-of-the-box Web interface that seamlessly integrates eB DM with ESRI's ArcIMS GIS application. ESRI, a private company based in Redlands, California, is the world leader of geographic information system technology.
Sempra Energy plans to use eB across its intranet to provide its employees with an easy to use map interface to access documents stored in the eB system; to view maps electronically and spatially navigate to the property or easement of interest; and to allow the user to select or "click" on a property or easement and bring up its related real estate documents. Southern California Gas will migrate to eB from an obsolete legacy solution and share the eB platform with SDG&E.
John Burton, Manager - SDG&E Land Management, stated: "The solution from Spescom will provide users company-wide with an easy way to find documents related to a geographic location. Spescom's out-of-the-box integration with ESRI's GIS product provided the ideal solution with a quick return on our investment anticipated. We expect that the solution will also be adopted by other departments in the organisation."
Lee Johnston, ESRI-California Regional Manager added: "We have been working closely with the Land Management Department at Sempra Energy to empower them with geographic technology tools. We are delighted to have a business partner like Spescom who has integrated a solution between ArcIMS and eB products. We believe this combination provides a very powerful platform for Sempra Energy, who wants to access documents using geospatial referencing."
The solution will be deployed using industry-standard ProLiant servers from HP."HP is committed to working with customers like Sempra Energy to understand their technology needs and help them deliver integrated solutions," said Leigh Morrison, vice-president, HP's West Region. "HP's ProLiant servers will provide Sempra Energy with the key performance required to deliver this application seamlessly."
Carl Mostert, Spescom Software's CEO, stated: "We are delighted with this break through into one of the largest energy services companies in the US. We not only hope to expand our footprint into other divisions within Sempra, but will also be exploring other opportunities with ESRI and HP.
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Spescom Software (OTCBB: ALTS) delivers enterprise e-business solutions that provide rapid access to accurate information in context to assets, products and processes, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, productivity and safety. It achieves this through a tightly integrated suite of document, configuration and records management technologies that not only allows it to capture and securely store information, but also organises and structures this information to place it in context.
Key customers include Continental Airlines, AmerenUE, City of Winston-Salem, Britannia Airways, Eastern Municipal Water District, Entergy, Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Railtrack, and many others.
Spescom eB
eB 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: document management; records management; item management; change management; configuration management and workflow components. These components are tightly integrated with CAD, GIS, office and email applications to capture and view information. The full functionality of eB is available via a set of APIs that enable the rapid definition and deployment of customer specific solutions and integration with other line-of-business applications including ERP, CRM, SCM, maintenance management and project management products.
Spescom Limited
Spescom Limited is an information and communications technology (ICT) company listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA, with operations in the US, UK and SA.
The group is active in two main areas of the world IT market, namely offering product and solutions to connect to the networked economy, and the provision of software solutions to manage information and knowledge.
The strategic focus is on the convergence of knowledge, document, configuration and voice transaction management technologies.
Spescom DataVoice, a subsidiary of Spescom Limited, is dedicated to the development and global marketing of its DataVoice products in the area of capture, management, and recreation of live data.
Spescom holds the controlling interest in US-based Spescom Software Inc, a Nasdaq-, OTCBB-listed company, and developer of the award-winning eB software suite.
In SA, Spescom, in alliance with world-leading companies such as Cisco and Avaya, provides a range of customer contact and intelligent network solutions to its blue-chip customer base.
The company is a leading supplier of communications solutions and products to network operators and service providers.
For more information on Spescom, please visit www.spescom.com.