FPL Energy Selects Cycle Software's LiveData ICCP Servers to Monitor Remote Power Assets; Successful Installation Up and Running Within 30 Days.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 14, 1999--

Cycle Software, developer of the LiveData family of industrial enterprise integration products, today announced that FPL Energy a subsidiary of FPL Group has successfully implemented Cycle LiveData ICCP Server to monitor recently acquired non-nuclear power-generation facilities in Maine. FPL Energy serves more than 7 million people, or about half of the population of Florida, in an area covering almost the entire eastern seaboard of Florida and the southern third of the state. The purchase of Central Maine Power Company's non-nuclear generating assets was completed in March 1999.

FPL Energy's goal following the acquisition was to perform all central computer processing, including dispatching, telemetry control and monitoring for the acquired plants in Miami. A standard protocol was required to achieve this, and FPL Energy chose ICCP because of its widespread adoption and increasing use throughout the utility industry. Cycle's LiveData ICCP Servers were selected because of how simple it was to use the socket interface to connect the NT based software to UNIX workstations. Cycle LiveData was one of the few product offerings available on an NT-based system and FPL Energy considered them to be very competitively priced.

"We had heard horror stories about the difficulties of integrating data from different systems," said Jay Brown, supervisor of the SCADA and Power Application Software Development Group of Power Supply at FPL Energy. `Everyone warned us that it wouldn't work, but our experience with the LiveData ICCP Server was uniformly positive. Being online on time was important to us too, and we met our deadline of being up and running within one month."

"To be competitive in the post-deregulation business climate, utilities must be able to move quickly and operate efficiently," said Chris Ladas, President of Cycle Software. "More and more of our utility customers are turning to ICCP to solve their problems of interoperability and scalability."

LiveData ICCP runs on Windows NT. It is the first ICCP solution to use an object configuration-driven approach, which diminishes the cost and complexity of developing and maintaining ICCP. Risk and time to integrate are minimized, resulting in a more reliable, maintainable end system.

Cycle Software's LiveData products capture, transform, and route real time data from and between disparate systems, enabling Cycle's customers to unite systems across the enterprise and increase operational effectiveness. A partial list of customers includes Duquesne Light Company, Southern California Edison, Idaho Power, Northern States Power, and Great River as well as a number of EMS & SCADA vendors. There are more than 100 customer installations of LiveData ICCP in the field in North America alone. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cycle Software is privately held. Visit Cycle Software on the Web at www.livedata.com.