Spescom's US operation, Spescom Software Inc. has announced the sale of a corporate licence for its eB software suite to Newcastle City Council in the UK.
This contract is a result of the close relationship Spescom has established with CACI International, a leading provider of IT solutions, to address the needs of local government and related markets in the UK.
Newcastle is the largest city in the North East of England and will utilise eB as a common core platform for managing documents across multiple departmental boundaries. Initially, eB will be deployed in the Revenues (Council Tax and National Domestic Rates), Benefits (Council Tax and Housing) and Planning Applications areas. Following deployment in these areas, the roll-out and integration will be extended to include the rest of Planning plus into Social Care in a number of projects that will link around 1,000 users with each other, and with other external government agencies and Non Government Organisations.
"This new contract with Newcastle City Council is another important success in the local government market in the UK," comments Carl Mostert, Spescom Software CEO. "Following on our previous contracts with city and county councils such as Leicester, Tendring, Derbyshire, Stoke and Hertfordshire, we are making steady progress, together with CACI, in expanding our footprint in the local government market in the UK."
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Spescom is a multi-national technology innovator with direct operations in the US, UK and South Africa.
The group is publicly listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA (Spescom Ltd), and on the NASDAQ OTCBB : SPCO (Spescom Software Inc).
Spescom addresses the information and communications technology market providing both products and solutions to connect to the network economy, as well as enterprise software to manage information and knowledge.
Specifically, Spescom provides solutions in the areas of access network; enterprise information management; multimedia transaction recording; broadcast; customer contact centres; and test & measurement.
Spescom markets its products worldwide through appointed partners and distributors under the eB( brand for its enterprise software, and the DataVoice( brand for its multimedia transaction recording solutions.
Spescom's global customer base consists of multi-national organisations including leading enterprises in the utilities, telecommunications, transportation, financial, banking and insurance sectors.
Worldwide, customers include Siemens, British Telecoms, Network Rail (formerly Railtrack), Lloyds of London, Barclays Bank, Abbey National Bank, WH Smith, Caterpillar, Bechtel, AmerenUE, Entergy, Bombardier, Ocean Energy, Sempra Energy, Telkom, SABC, Old Mutual, Eskom, Transnet, First National Bank.
For more information on Spescom, please visit www.spescomsoftware.com and www.spescom.com.
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