Louisville, Kentucky's Transit Authority of River City (TARC) Chooses Mincom Enterprise Solution.Business Editors & Technology Writers DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2001 Mincom, Inc., an enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) total software solutions provider to the transportation industry, today announced that Transit Authority of River City (TARC TARC Transit Authority of River City TARC Team America Rocketry Challenge (student competition) TARC Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (San Francisco, CA) TARC Thymus and Activation Regulated Chemokine ) has signed a multi-million dollar license fee and services agreement with Mincom. The agreement includes the purchase and implementation of Mincom's fully integrated Ellipse ellipse, closed plane curve consisting of all points for which the sum of the distances between a point on the curve and two fixed points (foci) is the same. It is the conic section formed by a plane cutting all the elements of the cone in the same nappe. business component system for managing maintenance, materials, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and financials. 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. Resources will be Mincom's alliance partner providing the implementation services aspects of the agreement. TARC, the greater Louisville, Kentucky  “Louisville” redirects here. For other uses, see Louisville (disambiguation). , area public transportation system, serves an 800-square mile area with a fleet of 300 buses, 14 trolleys and 77 paratransit vehicles. More than 55,000 passengers ride TARC vehicles every day. By 2007, TARC will add a light rail system connecting the downtown area with the University of Louisville See also
1. ^ [1] 2. ^ [2] URL accessed on June 8 2006 3. and the airport. After a thorough selection process, TARC's Executive Director J. Barry Barker Barry Barker is a British Contemporary Art Curator and Gallerist. He worked with Nigel Greenwood and was exhibitions officer at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London and the John Hansard Gallery before becoming Director of the Arnolfini in Bristol 1986-1991 overseeing a concluded: "Mincom offered a fully integrated solution that will track our facilities, equipment and vehicles in one system, and meet the expectations of all our departments. Public transit has unique needs and Mincom's mass transit-specific solution and industry knowledge addressed virtually all of our requirements." Two aspects of the Mincom offer stood out: First, Mincom was able to satisfy 95% of TARC's requirements without costly technology build outs. Second, Mincom's LinkOne online parts manuals will enable TARC to streamline and centralize repair and maintenance parts procurement and position the transit organization to leverage savings from e-Business opportunities. "Mass transportation districts face pressures to operate more efficiently, reduce spares, cut costs and build ridership. To satisfy those needs, organizations like TARC need transportation specific solutions created by companies that understand their unique needs," said Larry Hagewood, President of Mincom North America. Mincom will support the future expansion plans of TARC. The anticipated go-live for the initial installation of Ellipse Open Enterprise is March of 2002. About TARC TARC was established in 1974 to provide public transportation services to the citizens of the greater Louisville area and five surrounding counties in Kentucky <onlyinclude> This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, third in the U.S. behind Texas' 254 and Georgia's 159. and Southern Indiana. TARC's mission is to explore and implement transportation opportunities that enhance the social, economic and environmental well-being of the greater Louisville community. In fiscal year 2000, TARC served approximately 15 million riders on some 60 routes covering 12.3 million miles. About Mincom, Inc Mincom, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise application software for capital asset-dependent companies in the utilities, transportation, mining, and government/defense industries. Mincom serves customers in over 40 countries with fully integrated software solutions and professional services, along with e-business procurement capabilities and Applications Service Provider (ASP) services through subsidiaries Innotech and Tequinox, respectively. Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, and Denver, Colorado, Mincom's 1,100 employees populate thirty offices worldwide in 18 countries. About EAM Resources Founded in 1999, Denver-based EAM Resources LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control is a management consultancy primarily focused on Enterprise Asset Management software implementations for the highly specialized US Public Transit industry. EAM Resources' consultants have more than a decade of experience implementing Mincom software and EAM is a Mincom preferred partner in the transportation vertical. EAM Resources offers expertise in the key areas of finance, human resources, maintenance and materials of Mincom's Ellipse enterprise management software for transportation companies. |
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