Livestock Improvement Corporation Selects Intergraph's GeoMedia WebEnterprise for Innovative GIS Solution.

Business Editors & Technology Writers

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2001

GeoMedia technology provides business-critical

decision-support tools for optimal routing of bovine services

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions (NASDAQ: INGR) today announced that the Livestock Improvement Corporation in New Zealand has selected GeoMedia WebEnterprise as its first spatially based information system for the company's on-farm artificial breeding (AB) service. After an extensive evaluation of all current and third-party spatial software providers, Livestock Improvement chose GeoMedia WebEnterprise because the Intergraph New Zealand team demonstrated that the software can achieve significant gains in efficiency and cost savings. Further gains are predicted when Livestock Improvement applies the software to other areas of its business such as herd testing.

Livestock Improvement offers dairy farmers in New Zealand an on-farm AB service that provides technicians who visit farms daily to inseminate cows. In the quest to improve the efficiency of its service, Livestock Improvement has embraced the concept of Web-enabled spatial software that links to multiple datasets and produces maps of optimized traveling routes for its technicians nationwide.

GeoMedia WebEnterprise enables Livestock Improvement employees to produce real-time maps over the Web. Users can view multiple datasets in various formats, integrating disparate GIS data sources without translation. Using GeoMedia WebEnterprise, Livestock Improvement will generate optimized travel routes daily for its 1,200 technicians, displaying the routes against a topographic map and including driving directions and trip summary reports. This capability will be extremely effective in reducing the four million kilometers technicians travel each year.

"We are delighted to find that the prototype Intergraph developed to prove the concept of optimization and GIS solutions is achieving substantial gains in efficiency and cost savings for Livestock Improvement's AB service," said Livestock Improvement GIS project manager, Sally Rosenberg. "With a 10 to 15 percent efficiency gain, we can expect at least a $300,000 ($120,000 US) annual saving in kilometer reimbursement and an effective $75,000 ($30,000 US) staff time saving. When we apply a similar solution to our herd testing service, the savings are expected to be in the order of a further $360,000 ($144,000 US) annually. With savings like these, we envisage Livestock Improvement employing the Intergraph solution for a variety of other services such as `whole farm analysis,' traceability, animal health monitoring and disease control, liquid semen processing and dispatch, and bull buying and calf collection."

Jeremy Adams, business development manager, Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions, New Zealand commented, "Intergraph is very excited to be partnering with Livestock Improvement to develop advanced spatial solutions to assist their primary business objectives. Our industry-leading GIS technology has proven eminently suitable for solving Livestock Improvement's challenging requirements for operations efficiency. The open, scalable, data- independent architecture of our Web-based mapping products means Livestock Improvement has wisely invested in a solid core spatial platform, with the capability to expand upon this with many new and innovative applications."

Livestock Improvement Corporation

Livestock Improvement, www.lic.co.nz, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the New Zealand Dairy Board exporting to over 70 countries globally and has offices in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Livestock Improvement sets the standards for the world in dairy herd improvement through a unique national database that offers unparalleled traceability, world class genetic improvement systems and laboratory automation solutions.

Since the early 1920s, the corporation has worked with New Zealand's agricultural industry to develop the most efficient pastoral dairy system and its efforts have been integral to New Zealand's success in leading the world in pastoral dairy farming. Livestock Improvement has formal strategic alliances with companies and research institutes in Holland, France, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions

Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions delivers comprehensive geospatial solutions to government, commercial, and international markets. The company provides core and industry-specific software products, solutions for map production and enterprisewide mapping and GIS, and services ranging from project implementation to production. A technology innovator and market leader, Intergraph helps customers merge their geospatial data with information technology and business process tools to meet their enterprise and operational goals and to enable data sharing enterprisewide.

Headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., Intergraph Mapping and GIS Solutions is a division of Intergraph Corporation (NASDAQ: INGR) and is represented in more than 60 countries through its global distributor and partner network. Visit the company's Website at www.intergraph.com/imgs.

Intergraph is a registered trademark of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

EDITORS: For company contact information, please direct readers to 1-800-791-3357 (within the U.S.) or 1-256-730-7191 (outside the U.S.), or to Intergraph's Website at www.intergraph.com/imgs.