California's Alameda-Contra Costa -- AC -- Transit Joins Mincom Mass Transportation Family.

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DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 20, 2001

Software provider Mincom, Inc. has expanded its penetration into the U.S. mass transportation market, announcing that Alameda-Contra Costa (AC) Transit signed a multi-million dollar license fee and services agreement.

The agreement includes Mincom's enterprise asset management system and on-line content management tool.

AC Transit, the public transit system serving Oakland, Berkeley and eleven surrounding cities in the San Francisco Bay Area, will use Mincom's Ellipse 5.2 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to manage its maintenance, material management, purchasing, and grants management functions.

In addition, the agreement includes Mincom's Link One content manager for online parts manuals and e.POWER(R), from Integic Corporation, that integrates to Ellipse and automates AC Transit's business processes, improves its workflow and assimilates its legacy systems.

"AC Transit sees this new automated management system as a tool that will help to refine and streamline our agency's business practices and processes," said Rick Fernandez, AC Transit General Manager. "That's an important achievement as we advance into a new decade and century of service to the public."

AC Transit covers 400 square miles with 800 buses and five maintenance facilities. AC Transit carries over 230,000 passengers per day, providing fixed route and paratransit service to the cities on the east shore of San Francisco Bay along with connecting service to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and San Francisco Municipal Railway.

Through the integrated Mincom Ellipse system, AC Transit will look to improve performance metrics such as improved customer satisfaction and fare box recovery while reducing road calls/in-service failures, spares ratios, inventory, overhead and maintenance costs.

"Municipal Transportation organizations are realizing significant cost savings and efficiencies through the real-time linkage of work orders, spending, capital projects, labor and inventory," said Pat Baxter, Mincom's Global Vice-President of Transportation. "When information flows through the organization in an accessible manner, agencies can move beyond the 'data rich/information poor' paradigm."

The Mincom-Integic relationship will enable AC Transit to graphically map their business processes to their Ellipse ERP system -- creating a system of automated, logic-driven business flow interactions that can be seen in real time. The Ellipse-e.POWER(R) combination brings efficiency and accountability by compressing transaction time cycles and delivering customized interactivity from single data access points.

The agreement further solidifies Mincom's position in the transportation space. Mincom has won three major municipal transportation contracts in the last three months: AC Transit, Transit Authority of River City (TARC) in Louisville, Kentucky, and Long Beach Transit in California all recently joined the Mincom transportation family.

"Three straight municipal transportation wins show that Mincom has the most complete solution for U.S. transportation organizations," said Pat Baxter, Mincom's Global Vice-President of Transportation.

Globally, Mincom software helps transportation companies move almost 4 million passengers every day.

About AC Transit

AC Transit is the public bus system serving the 13 cities and adjacent unincorporated communities in 390 square miles along the eastern shores of San Francisco and San Pablo Bays. This includes Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Francisco (Transbay Terminal Only) and San Pablo.

About Mincom, Inc.

Mincom, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise application software for capital asset-dependent companies in the utilities, transportation, mining, and government/defense industries. Mincom serves customers in over 40 countries with fully integrated software solutions and professional services, along with e-business procurement capabilities and Applications Service Provider (ASP) services through subsidiaries Innotech and Tequinox, respectively. Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, and Denver, Colorado, Mincom's 1,100 employees populate 30 offices worldwide in 18 countries.

About Integic

Integic is an eBusiness integrator of software, people and processes that connects legacy environments to online business applications. e.POWER(R) is a unique software product for rapid development of applications that addresses the critical requirements of online business operations, including enterprise work management, integrated document and records management and portals. With a growing client base in targeted vertical industries including eGovernment, eHealthcare and eCommerce, Integic leverages its cutting-edge technology and more than a decade of successful integration experience to deliver robust, flexible and scalable enterprise solutions. Clients include Sony Music Entertainment, the Department of Defense, the Military Health System, Dominion Resources, Schering, and Xerox (www.integic.com).