Axios Software Adds Power to Global Gas Network.Business Editors EDINBURGH, Scotland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 2003 A German-French company at the heart of some of the world's most challenging energy distribution projects has selected Edinburgh-based Axios Systems' assyst software to help improve its IT systems' performance. EUROPIPE GmbH has installed the Help Desk and IT Service Management (ITSM ITSM Information Technology Service Management ITSM Information Technology Security Manager ITSM Indirect Tensile Stiffness Modulus ITSM Information Technology System Management ITSM Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager ITSM It Service Management ) solution at its offices at Muelheim an der Ruhr to manage its customers' individual requirements. Around three-quarters of the world's traded natural gas is transported through pipelines. A large proportion of this flows down pipes made by EUROPIPE, jointly owned by Salzgitter AG/Mannesmannroehren-Werke AG and AG der Dillinger Huettenwerke. The company and its predecessors have manufactured more than 30 million tonnes of large-diameter pipe - enough to circle the earth twice. Based at Ratingen, Germany, it has mills in Germany, France and USA (Berg Steel Pipe Corp.). EUROPIPE's projects include a 4,200 km pipeline in China to take 12 billion cubic metres Noun 1. cubic metre - a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 1000 liters cubic meter, kiloliter, kilolitre metric capacity unit - a capacity unit defined in metric terms of natural gas a year to Shanghai, a 1,400 km pipeline connecting the Asgard field far off the Norwegian coast with Emden in Germany, a 4,400 km pipeline linking the Siberian peninsula of Jamal with Frankfurt an der Oder, a pipeline across the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east , and the Trans Maghreb pipeline which takes 8 billion cubic metres of gas a year from Algeria to France. Axios Systems (www.axiossystems.com), which has its German offices in Munich, was selected as the ITSM supplier in preference to Peregrine Systems  This article about a company does not make it clear whether the subject meets the Wikipedia criteria for . because of product performance and assyst's conformity with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). ), a set of guidelines for Best Practice in ITSM. The system will run on an Oracle database and SUN Solaris 8 server. "We are particularly delighted to have been entrusted with this business by a company at the leading edge of technology for distributing energy around the globe," said Martina Heininger, Marketing Manager of Axios Systems GmbH. "assyst will give EUROPIPE greater control of its IT assets and help it to manage and control its IT systems effectively." About Axios Systems Axios Systems has over 15 years experience of providing Help desk & IT Service Management excellence. The original ITIL solution, assyst, is the leading Help Desk and IT Service Management solution providing total control of IT infrastructures to large organisations. Testament to the fact that Axios' main priority lies with providing an excellent product together with outstanding customer service, Axios has been voted No. 1 in the Help Desk Institute vendor survey for the second year running. assyst is the ITIL Help desk and IT Service Management vendor of choice, currently used worldwide by over 400 organisations including Orange, MidAmerican Energy MidAmerican Energy may refer to one of the following:
in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. and many Government institutions such as the UK Ministry of Defence. assyst is a fully integrated, out-of-the-box Help Desk & IT Service Management software suite designed from inception around the Best Practice ITIL framework. For more information visit www.axiossystems.com or contact assyst@axiossytems.com |
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