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Entergy Standardizes Nuclear Fleet on Indus Software Solutions; Indus Nuclear Solution to Help Company Ensure Future of Operational Excellence.


ATLANTA -- Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
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: IINT), a leading Service Delivery Management solution provider, today announced that Entergy Corporation (NYSE NYSE

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) is standardizing on Indus solutions. Entergy, the second-largest nuclear generator in the U.S., signed a significant license and services contract to upgrade all work management and supply chain systems in its 10-unit nuclear fleet to the latest release of Indus' market-leading enterprise asset management (EAM (1) (Enterprise Asset Management) The management and control of the information technology assets within the enterprise. The asset management repository includes a description of the asset as well as contract information pertaining to its acquisition. ) software for nuclear utilities.

Based on the successful use of Indus solutions in their Southern fleet, Entergy decided to standardize the work processes across all of their nuclear facilities to help meet their high standards for safety, regulatory compliance, fleet management and operational excellence - as well as return on investment. Therefore, the company is replacing work management and supply chain systems from MRO Software MRO Software, Inc. - formerly known as PSDI, was a software firm based in Bedford, Massachusetts, which published Maximo, the top-selling Enterprise Asset Management system in the market.  and SAP in the company's unregulated Northeast nuclear stations with the Indus solution. Entergy is also upgrading the systems in their Southern nuclear stations with the latest Indus software and aligning all of the stations with a single Indus supply chain solution which will serve the entire organization. Indus intends to work with Entergy to implement Asset Suite's comprehensive functionality using a baseline approach to eliminate customizations.

Indus Executive Vice President of Field Operations John Gregg John Gregg can refer to the following people:
  • John Robert Gregg (1867–1948), Inventor of Gregg Shorthand
  • John Gregg (CSA) (1828–1864), Confederate general
  • John Irvin Gregg (1826–1892), Union general
 said, "Our statistics show that approximately 70 percent of all nuclear generators in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  are Indus clients. This decision by Entergy, one of the most prominent nuclear generators in the country, continues our leadership and momentum in this industry as more and more utility companies standardize on Indus solutions. Indus is the obvious choice for companies like Entergy who need the flexibility to tailor business processes at multiple facilities as well as the scalability to standardize those processes across their fleet and their entire enterprise. An investment in Indus Asset Suite is an investment in their future."

Advanced Capabilities for the Complex Needs of the Nuclear Industry

Indus's EAM solution for nuclear utilities offers unmatched asset and work management functionality designed to enable enterprisewide visibility and lifecycle management for complex, multi-site environments such as Entergy's. That is why more than 80 nuclear units in North America either use or are implementing Indus solutions for their nuclear plants today. These organizations realize that Indus provides the most comprehensive solution available for the nuclear market with deep asset management for both equipment and infrastructure. Asset Suite also offers advanced materials Advanced Materials is a leading peer-reviewed materials science journal published every two weeks. Advanced Materials includes Communications, Reviews, and Feature Articles from the cutting edge of materials science, including topics in chemistry, physics,  and procurement management and safety and compliance features, and facilitates design engineering processes as well. The latest version of Indus Asset Suite adds a number of key enhancements, including enterprise workflow, wireless mobility and real-time performance management. The result is an advanced, complete solution that is helping nuclear companies around the globe decrease costs, increase availability and minimize downtime.

Indus Asset Suite also delivers the added flexibility and ease of use provided by the Indus Foundation Architecture(TM). Developed using a Service-Orientated Architecture, the Indus Foundation Architecture provides enhanced configurability and agility to meet rapidly evolving business needs. In addition, Indus Asset Suite delivers a personal user interface that includes role and rule-based content and workflow-based navigation and is configurable for the individual user.

About Entergy

Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $10 billion and approximately 14,000 employees. Entergy's online address is www.entergy.com.

About Indus International

Indus is a leading Service Delivery Management (SDM SDM - Schematic Data Model ) solution provider, helping clients in a broad array of industries optimize the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts Spare parts, also referred to as Service Parts is a term used to indicate extra parts available and in proximity to the mechanical item, such as a automobile, boat, engine, for which they might be used.

Spare parts are also called “spares.
 inventory, tools and documentation in order to maximize performance and customer satisfaction while achieving significant cost savings. Indus customer, asset and workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space.  software products, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  and hosted service offerings improve our clients' profitability by reducing costs, increasing capacity and competitiveness, improving service to their customers, facilitating billing for services and ensuring regulatory compliance. Indus solutions have been purchased by more than 400 companies in more than 40 countries, representing diverse industries -- including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, government, education, transportation, facilities and property management, high tech, consumer packaged goods and more. For more information, visit our Website at http://www.indus.com.

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