The US operation of ICT multinational, Spescom Limited, Spescom Software Inc, today announced the purchase of an enterprise licence for Spescom's eB configuration management platform, valued in excess of $1.8 million.
Network Rail, the UK's rail management company, intends to deploy eB throughout its operations, as the company's corporate standard for configuration management.
"This important new contract from Network Rail is the largest software contract to date for eB and is a great endorsement of our technology," comments Carl Mostert, CEO, Spescom Software Inc.
"It follows an extensive evaluation process and is based on the significant ROI that Network Rail has achieved using eB on the West Coast project. This latest deal brings the monetary total for business we have received from Network Rail over the past few years to $6 million. Moreover, we anticipate further contracts for greater deployment of eB by Network Rail on an array of projects," says Mostert.
The contract follows the successful deployment of eB, over an 18-month period, on Network Rail's West Coast Route Modernisation programme - a $15 billion project aimed at upgrading the entire railway infrastructure between London and Glasgow.
eB provides the platform for the storage of information, plus all assets, associated documents and records, relating to the West Coast railway line. It also controls all changes as the rail infrastructure is upgraded. This complex task entails keeping track of the status of approximately one million assets and over four million associated documents and records in a safety critical environment characterised by extensive and continuous change.
Mostert says the Network Rail order is the third $1 million contract to be secured by Spescom Software in the past few months.
"It places us in a good position to meet our financial growth and profitability objectives for the year," concludes Mostert.
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Spescom is a multinational technology innovator with direct operations in the US, UK and SA.
Spescom Limited is publicly listed on the JSE Securities Exchange, South Africa. Spescom Software Inc is publicly listed on the NASDAQ OTCBB: SPCO.
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 and 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 and First National Bank.
For more information on Spescom, please visit www.spescomsoftware.com and www.spescom.com.
Spescom Software
Spescom Software delivers enterprise content and configuration 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, City of Dayton, Lloyds Register of Shipping, United Space Alliance, Entergy, Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Network Rail, 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: 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 e-mail applications to capture, store 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, EAM, SCM and project management products.
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