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Intergraph and Severn Trent Systems Form Strategic Business Alliance
Focus on Strengthened End-to-End Geospatial and Work Management Solutions
DENVER, March 28, 2000 - Intergraph Corporation and Severn
Trent Systems (STS) today announced a strategic business alliance to fully
integrate Intergraph's Geospatial Resource Management (GRM) solution with
a STS's Worksuite, comprehensive work management system (WMS) - reducing
cost, risk, time to implement, and ongoing maintenance costs. The alliance
addresses product development and integration, business development and
customer implementations. Intergraph's G/Industry Solutions next
generation geospatial applications, InService (TM) solutions and STS's
STORMS (TM) work management, Scheduler (TM) resource management and
FieldIT (TM) mobile work management will now be available as
pre-integrated components under the alliance. The suite facilitates
greater interoperability of engineering management and operations
throughout the enterprise. The products adhere to the latest industry
standards for openness, scalability, web-deployment and mobile computing,
aligning with the vision of both companies.
According to Kevin Hitt, Intergraph vice president of utilities, "Utility
companies need their most important operating systems to work together
seamlessly. The alliance with STS supports our vision of an end-to-end
GRM solution, in which GIS becomes a foundation for tight integration with
outage management and work management systems. Formalizing the Intergraph
and Severn Trent Systems' relationship insures the compatibility and
maintainability between two market-leading providers of utility industry
products."
Jeff Brown, vice president work management business unit for STS,
explained, "By integrating work management processes and geospatial
systems, we are able to eliminate redundancies and improve the efficiency
of utility operations. The tight integration between our Worksuite work
solutions and GRM will produce significant operating benefits for our
customers. The core of the alliance is pre-integrated solutions -
providing to our customers, a better and faster way to implement their
enterprise systems with lower risk and lower cost. STS and Intergraph are
doing much of the systems integration work for them in advance and then
collaborating on the deployment for our customers."
Customers currently implementing this integrated geospatial and work
management solution are Florida Power Corporation, Puerto Rico Electric
Power Authority and Kansas City Power and Light.
Intergraph Background Information
Intergraph's communications and utilities organizations provide the
world's leading Windows NT-based Geospatial Resource Management solutions
for communications companies and utilities. Intergraph's solutions
integrate a full range of asset management and decision support tools into
a truly blended, enterprise-focused IT environment. The company's full
slate of solutions for Geospatial Resource Management includes
GFramme-based Industry Solutions, FRAMME, FRAMME Web View and Field View.
Dedicated to streamlining the entire workflow, Intergraph also offers
inside plant management solutions and the InService Suite of products,
addressing outage management, workforce management, crew dispatch and
mobile data needs.
Intergraph Corporation is a worldwide provider of technical solutions and
systems integration. Its vertically focused business units develop, market
and support software and services for local and national governments and
for the following vertical industries: transportation, utilities,
communications, process, marine and public safety. Other business units
deliver software, hardware and services across multiple industries. Built
on 30 years of technology innovation, Intergraph is consistently ranked by
industry analysts as a leading vendor in the global markets it serves.
Intergraph common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the
symbol: INGR.
STS Background Information
STORMS is a trademark of Severn Trent Systems. All other marks belong to
their respective holders.
The Information Technology Solutions division of Severn Trent Services
provides information technology-based business solutions to organizations
worldwide serving customers through large connected infrastructure, such
as energy and water delivery companies, and telecommunication companies.
The division's software products and services help clients achieve higher
levels of operational efficiency and customer service. The Information
Technology Solutions division is organized into four business units (BU).
Each BU's solutions include software products and a full range of related
professional and consulting services. The Work Management BU provides
enterprise work management, mobile work management and asset management
solutions. The Stoner BU provides network modeling and management, and
spatial integration services solutions. The Customer Relationship
Management BU provides customer information and marketing information
system solutions. The Managed Services BU provides outsourced information
technology solutions. The Information Technology Solutions division is a
division of Severn Trent Services with offices in Australia, France, the
United Kingdom and the United States. Severn Trent Services is a leading
provider of water purification products, laboratory and operating services
and information technology solutions. The company employs nearly 3,000
and generates annual sales of $600 million. Severn Trent Services is a
part of Severn Trent Plc (London:SVT.L), Birmingham, England, one of the
world's leading water and waste utility services companies.
Intergraph and the Intergraph Logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph
Corporation. FRAMME is a trademark of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands
and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.
Marilyn Kinyo
Severn Trent Systems
(281) 320-7100
www.intergraph.com/gis
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