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CONTACT INFORMATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Innoprise Software, Inc.
Announces Launch of Mobile CIS Software Fort Hill Natural Gas Authority
First to Purchase New Product Licenses
ORLANDO, FL and BEND, OR, May 18, 2004 - Innoprise
Software, Inc., an enterprise software company providing solutions
for the utility and local government markets, today announced the
release of mCIS, a mobile Customer Information System (CIS) solution.
mCIS uses wireless peer-to-peer communications to enable real-time
data exchange not only between the corporate CIS and service personnel
in the field, but also among any connected devices on the network,
ranging from cell phones and wireless PDAs to PCs and servers. The
company also announces that Fort Hill Natural Gas Authority of Easley,
South Carolina, is the first company to purchase the new mCIS solution.
mCIS is fully integrated with the company's Innoprise CIS software,
which was launched by the company in May, marking the culmination
of two years of intense effort to build the next generation standard
in platform-neutral, cross-functional enterprise technology. The
first such solution that's based on a Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise
Edition (J2EE™) service-oriented architecture and a multi-tiered
Internet-native architecture, Innoprise CIS offers enterprises the
ability to unify customer and financial data and business processes
across all departments, divisions and systems, providing a single,
consistent view of data -- down to the transaction level.
The mobile component of the new Innoprise solution suite, mCIS
is communication network independent, allowing customers to use
their preferred wireless carrier. mCIS creates a virtual network
that enables mobile workers to travel freely within a service territory,
directly accessing and interacting with critical CIS data and other
field devices and business systems transparently while maintaining
data security.
Mobile service order management, e-mail and automated meter reading
applications supported by mCIS operate and communicate in real-time
when connections are available, and automatically switch to a synchronization
or queuing mode if disconnected without disrupting the end-user
or requiring special action.
Innoprise mCIS dramatically enhances productivity by enabling field
workers to download service orders from the CIS, schedule the work
day relative to the workload, update the CIS in real-time with service
order status information, query the CIS for additional information,
and wirelessly transmit service order completion information back
to the CIS office.
An Innoprise customer since 1995, Fort Hill Natural Gas Authority
of Easley, South Carolina, has purchased 15 initial licenses of
the new software, which will be deployed in July to service personnel
using PDA devices as part of a wider-scale phased implementation.
With some 37,500 residential, commercial and industrial customers
in a three-county service area, Fort Hill expects to benefit strongly
from the unique communication architecture of mCIS. “Reliable
wireless connectivity is a major problem in our outlying service
areas," explained Keith Burgess, MIS manager for the utility.
"Other mobile CIS solutions require a persistent wireless connection.”"
Because mCIS doesn’t require constant connectivity and automatically
synchronizes service order updates whenever a wireless network becomes
available, it will improve productivity in service request handling,
resulting in enhanced levels of customer satisfaction. "Allowing
service personnel to remain in the field managing service orders
without returning to the office results in major timesaving for
us," explained Burgess.
About Innoprise Software, Inc.
Innoprise Software, Inc.™ provides enterprise software for
the specific business challenges of utilities and local government
agencies. For the last two years, the company has teamed with a
core group of customers and concentrated all of its resources on
developing next generation software for CIS, financial management,
community development and work management. The new software is based
on 30 years of industry experience, Java and Internet technologies
that enable Innoprise customers to reduce their cost of service,
streamline operations and improve productivity. For additional information,
visit www.innoprise.com.
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