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Webraska and Sidewinder announce a Strategic and Commercial Partnership for
the provision of End to End Internet based Fleet Management Solutions
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Maisons-Laffitte, France, London, U.K. and Dallas, Texas October 17, 2001- -
Webraska, the worldwide provider of location-based services and telematic
software solutions, and Sidewinder, the leading supplier of Non-StopTM
Optimization solutions for Fleet Management, announced today a strategic
partnership to offer a jointly developed product for the fleet management ,
emergency and security services market.
The Webraska-Sidewinder joint product will be available to fleet managers as
well as to telecom operators, telematics service providers and system
integrators wishing to offer advanced internet-based fleet management
solutions to their customer bases.
The Webraska-Sidewinder product is an end-to-end internet-based fleet
management solution based on Sidewinder's journey optimization software
range combined with Webraska's server-based Wireless Navigation PlatformTM.
The Webraska platform allows the calculation and preparation in several
milliseconds of itineraries optimized with traffic information and
navigation instructions together with the proximity information requested by
the end-user. The two companies expect the joint product to be launched
before year-end.
The product will feature: Internet access to vehicle, driver and load
status; the possibility for dispatchers to track vehicles and optimize
vehicle journeys with traffic information, and provide new instructions,
itineraries and turn-by-turn navigation to drivers.
Bruno Bourguet, General Manager of Webraska Automotive, stated: "We expect
this joint development to allow fleet operators to significantly increase
the productivity, security and efficiency of their drivers. The cost will be
significantly reduced as compared to traditional fleet management solutions
thus allowing to address a market that could not previously afford IT
solutions for fleet management. Furthermore, thanks to the combined
offering, Webraska is now in a position to deliver internet-based emergency
and security applications worldwide".
Charles F. Short III, Sidewinder's Chairman & CEO stated "The
Sidewinder/Webraska Jointly Developed Product will offer the Telematic
services market a business solution and value proposition second to none for
commercial fleet managers. The integration of Webraska's real-time
navigation and traffic management system with Sidewinder's Non-StopTM
optimization solutions will provide clients with a complete end-to-end fleet
management system using true real-time events to manage their business
processes and to provide real-time security and visibility of their high
value goods".
About Webraska
Webraska provides the advanced software solutions required to develop,
integrate and deploy location-based and telematics services. Webraska's
carrier-grade technology includes the Wireless Navigation PlatformT
geospatial application server, the SmartZoneT LBS development and context
management software environment, the patented and award-winning wireless car
navigation solution IbDN® Lite, and over 20 other ready-to-deploy viral
applications such as BuddyFinder and M-vite.
Webraska has headquarters in Silicon Valley and in France, and offices
around the world. The company currently powers the LBS and telematics
offerings of leading service providers in four continents, including AT&T,
Blu, E-Plus, Pacific Access, Orange, Telecom Italia Mobile, and Viag
Interkom, and has partnerships with foremost technology providers including
Borg, Ericsson, IBM, Nortel, Oracle, and SignalSoft.
For more information visit: www.webraska.com
About Sidewinder
Sidewinder, with offices in the U.K., the United States and Australia, is
the world's leading software provider of Non-StopTM Optimization solutions
for the time sensitive-same day delivery of goods and services markets.
Sidewinder's business solutions address job and resource allocation,
Non-StopTM sequential and consequential optimization, and fleet visibility
with GPS/mapping and telematic gateways utilizing wireless mobile devices.
Sidewinder's products span the transportation industry including Service,
Building Materials, Distribution, Collection and Delivery. Sidewinder's
solutions have been installed in major transportation companies throughout
Europe, Australia and the United States which include The English Automobile
Association, the UK Post Office, DFDS-Dan Transport, Hanson's PLC, Boral,
Firth, Energy Australia and a number of major Courier companies throughout
the United States.
For more information visit: www.sidewinderholdings.com
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