BC Hydro Goes Live With Smallworld's PowerOn; First Phase of 350 Distribution Feeders Completed.

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999--

Smallworldwide plc (Nasdaq: SWLDY) today announced that on May 26 BC Hydro, a British Columbia-based electric utility serving approximately 1.5 million customers in a service area of 854,000 sq. km, completed its implementation of PowerOn(TM), in its Lower Mainland Control Centre.

This first phase of implementing Smallworld's innovative outage management product consists of approximately 350 of BC Hydro's 1250 distribution feeders. The remaining areas will be implemented over the next 12 months.

Smallworld PowerOn is a highly scalable, full-function product for outage and distribution management that dramatically reduces the time and resources necessary for electric utility companies to deal with service interruptions. The product provides a visual representation of the operational state of the utility's network, which helps the utility automate its network management functions. Tight integration between PowerOn and the underlying Smallworld technology, which is used to maintain the data, delivers major advantages over traditional outage management systems.

"The system is now live and handling nearly one third of BC Hydro's complex and far flung distribution network," said Dick Newell, chairman of Smallworld. "This is one of the largest and most rewarding implementations we've taken on, and we're pleased to have this first phase completed and running so quickly."

Prime contractor on the project was Westech, a systems integrator and a wholly owned subsidiary of BC Hydro. The company provides system development and maintenance consulting services. Westech is the largest Smallworld World Class Partner(TM) in the Northwest.

"PowerOn has given us the ability to become the number one utility in North America," said John Rennie, Manager of BC Hydro's Trouble Centre. "Linking with our CIS, Mobile Data and Call Centre IVR, it provides information to customers about their outage automatically. We also provide our crews with the location of the predicted outage point so they can find and correct the problem faster. In a nut shell, PowerOn provides better information about outages to our call center staff, our dispatchers, our crews and, most importantly, our customers."

In April, the three companies announced a collaborative partnership to develop a new application, which will be designed to facilitate the operation and management of transmission line facilities, hydro-electric reservoirs, downstream areas, rights-of-way and related lands.

The new product will represent a significant component of BC Hydro's Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS) initiative and, when combined with Hydro's distribution GIS, will facilitate a complete electric and land model from generation through to the customer. A release of the product is planned for early 2000.

"Our intention is to fill a significant gap in available technology and extend Smallworld's spatial resource planning product line," said Newell. "We know of no other existing product that provides a spatially integrated solution for both the transmission and distribution side of the electric utility business."

Smallworld (http://www.smallworld-us.com), the world's leading spatial resource planning (SRP) company, develops and markets software products that model real-world assets and services, seamlessly integrating this information across the enterprise. Smallworld's object-oriented technology offers fast implementation and easy integration so that its customers can increase revenues, improve customer service and better utilize their assets, resulting in high return on investment. Smallworld has more than 550 customers in over 36 countries around the world. The company's world headquarters are in Cambridge, England, and its headquarters for the United States, Canada and Latin America is in Englewood, Colorado. A publicly held company, Smallworldwide plc trades on Nasdaq National Market under the symbol SWLDY.

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