Columbia Natural Resources Lowers IT Operations Costs with AppWorx.Business Editors BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 Enterprise Process Management Solution to Automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. Critical Applications for West Virginia-Based Natural Gas Company AppWorx Corporation, (www.appworx.com) today announced that Columbia Natural Resources (CNR See riser card. CNR - Communication and Network Riser ), one of the largest producers of natural gas and oil in the Appalachian Basin, has selected the AppWorx solution to establish IT automation policies and to direct the flow of processes for its most critical applications. AppWorx will manage processes submitted by both the company's information management staff and internal users. Management of these processes will be based on business priorities, system resource availability, and business calendars. The implementation will be completed in May 2000. Columbia Natural Resources is the exploration and production unit of Columbia Energy Group, with operations in nine eastern states Eastern States can refer to several locations:
"One key role of CNR's Information Management (IM) Department is to help the company's business segments exploit technology to improve operations, control costs and pursue new revenue opportunities," said Jack Shaffer, manager, network services for CNR. "Since the production and transportation of natural gas is a highly competitive, price-sensitive activity, the company is constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to produce and transport more natural gas at a lower cost. For IM that translates into automating as many tasks as possible that are associated with CNR's main applications. "We selected AppWorx because of its flexibility, cross-platform support and user submission and notification capabilities. Once installed, AppWorx will take over enterprise-wide automation and alleviate the need to have an individual submit and monitor these tasks on a full-time basis." In addition, AppWorx will help manage a combination of IT and user submissions that go into CNR's custom-built accounting information management system (AIMS), including aggregating data, transferring files, updating the database, and running and distributing financial reports. Another area that will be enhanced by AppWorx will be the company's key relationships with landowners and natural gas suppliers. These relationships are maintained on AIMS, which is used to process well information, pay royalties to landowners and track third-party gas gathering. The system runs in a mixed Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environment, supporting 250 internal users as well as 100 well tenders in the field who use handheld devices to perform meter readings and collect gas production data. Information from each well is collected on the handheld computer A computing device that can be easily held in one hand while the other hand is used to operate it. The Palm devices are a popular example. See Palm, smartphone and palmtop. , and then downloaded to an NT application server. "AppWorx will ensure that the data is processed and forwarded to a UNIX server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. where it is edited and loaded into an Oracle 8i database," added Shafer. "AppWorx will act as our `message broker' throughout the process chain, triggering jobs to run when the preceding jobs are completed. "Users also will be able to schedule their jobs, such as accounting reports and vendor check runs. AppWorx will control potential conflicts, holding a job that is slated to run while another job is finishing up, and notifying no·ti·fy tr.v. no·ti·fied, no·ti·fy·ing, no·ti·fies 1. To give notice to; inform: notified the citizens of the curfew by posting signs. 2. users along the way about job status. "We see the AppWorx system as being a tremendous tool for improving the performance of our company's data management applications and enhancing the effectiveness and productivity of our overall information and data management systems." About Columbia Natural Resources Columbia Natural Resources is one of the largest producers of natural gas and oil in the Appalachian Basin. Headquartered in Charleston, W.Va., CNR has holdings that include the equivalent of 966 billion cubic feet of gas reserves, produced from 8,000 wells, and more than 5,400 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines. CNR is also recognized as an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 14001 company for its excellence in environmental management. The company is a subsidiary of Columbia Energy Group. Information about Columbia Natural Resources can be found at http://www.columbiaenergygroup.com. About AppWorx Corporation AppWorx builds and markets software products that automate and integrate application processing across the enterprise. Processes run based on conditional rules that parallel the priorities of the business, as well as specific times and days of the week, and available system resources (1) In a computer system, system resources are the components that provide its inherent capabilities and contribute to its overall performance. System memory, cache memory, hard disk space, IRQs and DMA channels are examples. . AppWorx innovative output management capabilities speed the reliable delivery of information to business users. Companies using AppWorx realize improvements in application continuity, application integration and end user satisfaction. AppWorx international customer base includes AT&T, Citicorp, DoubleClick Eastman Kodak, Glaxo Wellcome, John Deere, Motorola, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Life, Oracle Corp., PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Texaco, the US Navy and the US Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval . AppWorx Corporation is privately held. For more information call 1/877-APPWORX or visit the website at http://www.appworx.com. |
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