Agreement enables LogicaCMG to combine its ARM Product Suite with @Road Taskforce, two market-leading solutions for utility field service and asset management
HOUSTON, TX – MARCH 8, 2006 –LogicaCMG today announced it has signed an agreement with @Road®, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARDI) that enables LogicaCMG to integrate, market and resell the @Road Taskforce® Field Service Management software to North American utilities as part of LogicaCMG’s Asset and Resource Management (ARM) product suite. LogicaCMG’s integration of Taskforce and its intelligent resource synchronization capabilities with the ARM product suite will give utilities an important optimization tool designed to better meet both fixed and unplanned service commitments, reduce service, maintenance and construction costs, and exceed customer service delivery expectations.
LogicaCMG’s ARM product suite delivers a unified solution that enables energy and utility organizations to manage assets and resources end to end, from the back office to the field. ARM includes work management, asset management, mobile computing, compliance tracking, scheduling and dispatching optimization and reporting capabilities.
The @Road agreement enables LogicaCMG to add further offerings to an expanding solutions portfolio that was most recently enhanced by LogicaCMG’s acquisition of Worksuite LLC, as announced February 1, 2006. With this acquisition, LogicaCMG now serves a client base of nearly 50 North American utilities that serve over 125,000,000 utility end user customers.
“As part of our growing solutions roadmap, LogicaCMG has aligned itself with like-minded companies such as @Road who share our common vision for delivering innovative business applications and technology,” said Gary High, LogicaCMG vice president of North American sales and marketing for energy and utilities. “From the many vendor solutions we evaluated for optimization, @Road Taskforce clearly stood out in the marketplace and well complemented our ARM product suite.”
Taskforce is part of the @Road family of Mobile Resource Management solutions designed to help businesses large and small optimize the field service delivery process by automating the management of their mobile workers, their mobile workers' work and their mobile workers' assets. The underlying technology behind Taskforce makes use of several forms of patented artificial-intelligence algorithms that are designed to coordinate people, skills, resources and assets, constantly seeking to automatically optimize the best field service delivery solution at a given time.
“We’re looking forward to working with LogicaCMG and leveraging their expertise as a leading product vendor and systems integrator,” said Leo Jolicoeur, @Road chief marketing officer. “We believe that together, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a comprehensive field service delivery solution for energy and utility companies.”
About LogicaCMG
LogicaCMG is a major international force in IT services and wireless telecoms. It provides management and IT consultancy, systems integration and outsourcing services to clients across diverse markets including telecoms, financial services, energy and utilities, industry, distribution and transport and the public sector. The company employs around 30,000 staff in offices across 36 countries and has more than 40 years of experience in IT services. Headquartered in Europe, LogicaCMG is listed on both the London and Amsterdam stock exchanges (LSE: LOG; Euronext: LOG). For more information on LogicaCMG ARM suite, visit www.us.logicacmg.com.
About @Road
@Road, Inc. is a leading global provider of solutions designed to automate the management of mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for customers across a variety of industries. @Road delivers Mobile Resource Management solutions in three key areas: Field Force Management, Field Service Management and Field Asset Management. By providing real-time Mobile Resource Management infrastructure integrating wireless communications, location-based technologies, transaction processing and the Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable, enterprise-class platform, and are offered in on-demand software delivery, on-premise or hybrid environments that can seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field to real-time corporate data. @Road is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information on @Road solutions, visit www.road.com.
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Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, implementation of Taskforce by LogicaCMG; ability of @Road to comply with the terms of the agreement with LogicaCMG; and general economic and political conditions. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road Report on Form 10-K dated March 15, 2005, in the @Road Report on Form 10-Q dated November 8, 2005 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Source: LogicaCMG
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