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SCT
www.sctcorp.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SCT and Mincom Team to Offer
Enterprisewide Solution
SCT Utility Systems and Mincom
Embark on Joint Marketing Effort
COLUMBIA, S.C. and DENVER, January 11, 1999 /PRNewswire/
-- SCT (Nasdaq:SCTC) and Mincom announced today the signing of a software
marketing agreement that will provide an enterprise customer and asset
management solution for large utilities throughout the United States,
Mexico, Central America, South America and Asia Pacific.
Australian-based Mincom, with North American headquarters in Denver,
Colorado, is a global specialist in Enterprise Asset Management, offering
whole-of enterprise solutions to capital intensive industries. SCT
specializes in providing customer management, billing and supply chain
systems for the utilities industry. The agreement enables Mincom and
SCT to jointly market their services and products throughout the United
States and Mexico. Mincom and SCT will develop an interface for the
SCT Banner® customer management suite and Mincom's MIMS Open Enterprise
EAM solution.
Bill Mahoney, president of SCT Utility Systems, a division of SCT,
said that SCT's customer management and fulfillment solutions and
the enterprise asset management solutions of Mincom are unique because
they are designed specifically for utility operations, unlike alternatives
based upon ERP models.
"Our alliance offers utilities a comprehensive lower-cost solution,
with accelerated implementation track records, created exclusively
for utilities," Mahoney said. "The integration of SCT and
Mincom's products and services provides utilities and energy service
companies a proven offering which extends across the enterprise, from
customer aggregation and fulfillment, through asset management and
financials. The combined product lines provide end-to-end workflow
automation, supporting the unique process requirements of the utility
market.
"In addition," Mahoney stated, "the alliance delivers
the Banner product line's ability to provide superior customer management
and fulfillment abilities for utilities along with the human resources,
financial management and key operations and maintenance capabilities
available from Mincom."
Kim A. Duffy, Mincom's executive vice president of international operations,
said the joint efforts of SCT and Mincom will deliver significant
benefits to the utility industry. Mr. Duffy remarked, "The combination
of SCT and Mincom's products and services and SCT's world class expertise
will enhance our ability to provide a total solution to our customers.
It will also allow Mincom to better meet the needs of clients in the
utilities industry."
Southern Connecticut Gas Company -- which serves approximately 160,000
residential, commercial, and industrial customers in 22 coastal Connecticut
towns, including Bridgeport and New Haven -- will benefit from the
partnership and the plans to integrate SCT's Banner CIS product with
Mincom's MIMS Open Enterprise EAM solution. Darwin Kovacs, group director
of information technology, remarked, "We recognized Mincom and
SCT's leadership
in their respective markets, and we independently selected MIMS Open
Enterprise and Banner in competitive market evaluations. This
partnership will bring together two industry leaders into one best-of-breed,
integrated enterprise utility solution."
Guerry Waters, vice president, energy information strategies for META
Group, stated, "According to one of our recent surveys, most
energy utilities expect their customer information systems (CIS) and
marketing systems to be strategic information technology (IT) assets
during the next five years. In addition we believe that CIS as an
integrated module of an enterprise resource management package will
become the norm in the 2001-03 time frame."
About SCT
SCT is a recognized leader in providing advanced application software
designed to meet the global needs of public and private utilities.
Its leading-edge products support comprehensive customer management,
fuels management, and supply chain management processes for utilities
and energy services companies moving aggressively into the age of
deregulation.
SCT, headquartered in Malvern, Pa., is a leading provider of client/server,
mission critical, enterprise software and a series of information
technology services for utilities, government, higher education, and
manufacturing and distribution. SCT provides long-term information
technology solutions and is a recognized leader in outsourcing. For
more information, visit the SCT Web site at www.sctcorp.com.
About Mincom
Mincom, Inc. is the Denver-based subsidiary of Mincom International
Pty. Ltd. based in Brisbane, Australia, which operates 28 offices
in 16 countries. Mincom was recently ranked number one in overall
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) revenue for the Asia Pacific and
Australia region, and third in revenue worldwide in a survey by Automation
Research Corporation (ARC). Mincom is currently building its
North American presence on the momentum of recent landmark wins in
the US, including corporate-wide EAM software solutions for operations
maintenance and materials management for The Boeing Company, Freeport
McMoRan and an exclusive global partnership with Caterpillar, Inc.
Mincom is the EAM software solution of choice for seven (7) of the
top ten (10) global mining corporations.
Mincom's flagship EAM software product, MIMS Open Enterprise, is a
highly scalable, n-tier, client server product that incorporates leading-edge
architectural features from enterprise middleware leader BEA Systems
Inc. MIMS Open Enterprise delivers the functionality and experience
gained from Mincom's 20 years of software and services expertise.
MIMS Open Enterprise includes modules to Support operations and maintenance,
materials management, procurement, human resources and financials.
Operating as a stand-alone EAM solution or integrated with financial
and HR software from ERP providers such as Baan, Peoplesoft, SAP or
Oracle. MIMS Open Enterprise delivers best-of-breed EAM solutions
to asset-intensive industries with a particular focus on utilities,
defense and public sector, manufacturing, transportation and mining.
For more information on Mincom, visit their web site at www.mincom.com
or call 800-670-6467. SOURCE SCT Utility Systems and Mincom, Inc.
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