Spescom Software Inc, the US arm of multi-national technology innovator Spescom Limited, today announced that UK rail management company, Railtrack, has purchased a program-wide software licence for the West Coast Route Modernisation programme.
The contract, valued in excess of $1 million, will see Railtrack acquiring all components of Spescom's eB integrated document, configuration and records management (iDCR) solutions suite for the West Coast Route Modernisation programme. This is regarded as Europe's largest infrastructure project.
The endeavour estimated to cost over $15 billion, involves upgrading Railtrack's West Coast Main Line, linking London with Glasgow and Edinburgh. The West Coast Line, Europe's busiest train route, is being improved with state-of-the-art signalling and train control systems to better support rapidly increasing traffic levels, and its renewal program is generating massive volumes of complex data and documents.
Railtrack is adopting the eB software suite to help control the huge volume of information being used by the alliance teams that are delivering more than 85 complex engineering projects as part of the upgrade. These alliance teams include leading enterprises, such as Westinghouse, Balfour Beatty and GEC Alsthom, among others.
Spescom CEO, Carl Mostert, stated: "Railtrack's decision to use eB is a great endorsement of our technology and the value that Spescom delivers to customers. We have been working closely with Railtrack for some time and have clearly demonstrated the return on investment of our solutions to them. This deal is one further milestone in our ongoing relationship with Railtrack. We plan to expand this relationship into other areas of Railtrack as more operating divisions are made aware of the benefits that are being derived by the West Coast project."
Railtrack will benefit from the provision of the Spescom eB Health & Safety File Plan solution. This is an application that will enable the Health & Safety File - an essential deliverable for any UK-based construction project - to be compiled and assembled automatically as documents, drawings and records are created. Documents and records required to successfully complete project handover will be available the moment they are needed, avoiding unnecessary delays that often accompany the conclusion of a project. In addition, the Health & Safety File contains the as-built configuration details necessary for the railway line to achieve operational status.
The eB application will also streamline the Change Management Process between Railtrack and its alliance partners, who are the principal delivery agents across the program. In addition, the powerful Document Control functions of eB, which include comprehensive document reservation and transmittal capabilities, are being used to support controlled distribution of information among many different contractors and suppliers.
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Spescom is a multi-national technology innovator with direct operations in the US, UK and SA.
The group is publicly listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA (Spescom Ltd), and on the Nasdaq OTCBB: ALTS.OB (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 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, First National Bank.
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Spescom Software Inc
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 Ocean Energy, Continental Express, AmerenUE, City of Winston-Salem, Sempra Energy, Bombardier, Entergy, Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Railtrack, and many others.
For further information, visit us at www.spescomsoftware.com.
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; requirements 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.
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