Largest Alaska Water Utility Selects Indus Solution to Drive World-Class Customer Service; Banner Advantage CIS and CRM Essentials to Replace Mainframe-Based System.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2003 Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IINT), a leading provider of customer and asset management solutions, today announced a new license agreement with Anchorage Anchorage (ăng`kərĭj), city (1990 pop. 226,338), Anchorage census div., S central Alaska, a port at the head of Cook Inlet; inc. 1920. Water and Wastewater Utility (AWWU AWWU Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility ), the largest water and wastewater utility in Alaska. AWWU chose the Advantage Customer Management Suite including utility-specific customer relationship management functionality as the first step in an aggressive initiative to provide world-class customer service to its 51,600 water and wastewater customers. The agreement represents more than $2.4 million in licenses and services and continues Indus' market-leading momentum in winning more contracts 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. than any other vendor in 2002. AWWU chose the Indus solution in a highly competitive bid over offerings from leading ERP vendors A list of Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors. ERP vendors by revenue The largest vendors worldwide in 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest: Market share 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest[1] # Vendor Revenue (million $) Market share , such as PeopleSoft, to replace AWWU's antiquated mainframe-based CIS Cis (sĭs), same as Kish (1.) (1) (CompuServe Information Service) See CompuServe. (2) (Card Information S and billing system. AWWU recognized the urgent need to install newer, more advanced technology that is less expensive to maintain and more flexible in order to adapt to evolving technology and customer expectations. "When we began our search for a CIS/CRM vendor, we were primarily concerned with finding the vendor with the right technology and functionality to elevate our users to the highest level of customer service available in the industry," said Mark Premo, general manager for AWWU. "We found that Indus provided the most complete solution from a technology and functionality perspective. Indus' Banner(R) CIS and the complete Advantage Customer Management Suite was the most robust solution and most closely fit our business environment and technological vision. Therefore, we are confident that the Advantage Suite will help us to be able to achieve our operational excellence goals. All of these facts made Indus the best choice in terms of functionality, cost effectiveness and technology." "The industry is responding tremendously to our continued commitment to excellence, both from an operational or 'process-centric' perspective and from a customer satisfaction perspective," said John Gregg John Gregg can refer to the following people:
Like all Indus offerings, the Indus Advantage CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. Suite is the result of acute industry vision focused around helping customers achieve operational excellence. The ActionPoint Management capabilities of Indus solutions allow customers to quickly respond to customer needs through ready access to key knowledge where it matters most - at key decision-making points in the workflow. As a result of Indus' ActionPoint Management vision, customers can achieve real-time responsiveness to action requests from the customer to the plant, enabling Indus clients to vastly improve their responsiveness, accuracy, and customer satisfaction, thereby achieving world-class performance at breakthrough cost savings. About AWWU Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility is the largest water and wastewater utility in Alaska serving Anchorage, Chugiak-Eagle River, Peters Creek Peters Creek is a small river in San Mateo County, California and is a tributary of Pescadero Creek.[1] Tributaries
1. ^ USGS, 09-20-07 , Eklutna and Girdwood. The Utility collects water from two major surface watersheds, Eklutna Lake and Ship Creek Ship Creek is an Alaskan river that flows from the Chugach Mountains into Cook Inlet. The Port of Anchorage at the mouth of Ship Creek gave its name ("Knik Anchorage") to the city of Anchorage that grew up nearby. , and several deep underground wells. AWWU has more than 52,000 water customer accounts, serving approximately 216,800 residents. About Indus International Indus International provides breakthrough value to its clients by delivering ActionPoint Management, a business improvement program which delivers all the information needed by an end user to make the best decision possible at the point where that decision is made. Indus asset and customer management 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 asset management solutions are used by more than 300,000 end users in more than 40 countries and diverse industries -- including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, government, education, transportation, facilities and property management, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one and more. And, Indus customer management products and services are used by nearly 200 customers to support more than 70 million utility accounts worldwide. For more information, visit our Website at http://www.indus.com. Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. Statement Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical, including but not limited to statements regarding Indus' market position, customer base and the impact on future financial results, are ``forward-looking'' statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These statements involve a high degree of risk and uncertainty, are predictions only and actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. . Factors that could cause or contribute to differences include the uncertainty regarding viability and market acceptance of the Company's products and services, the ability to complete software development plans in a timely manner, changes in relationships with third parties, product mix sold by the Company and other factors described in the Company's most recent periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its 2002 Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed on March 31, 2003. Indus and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. Essentials(R) are trademarks and Banner is a registered trademark of Indus International Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. (1)"The Chartwell Report on CIS Installations in North America 2003," Chartwell Research, May 2003. |
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