MAXIMO Utility Working Group Attracts More Than 60 Leading Utility Companies; Spring 2004 Meeting Marks 50th Event Supporting Utility Customers.Energy Editors/Business Editors BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2004 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. , Inc. (Nasdaq: MROI MROI Marketing Return On Investment MROI Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (New Mexico) MROI Marginal Return on Investment ), the leading provider of strategic asset management solutions today announced the opening of the spring MAXIMO Utility Working Group (MUWG MUWG MAXIMO Utility Working Group ) conference, being held from April 21-22, at the Renaissance Hotel in Bedford, Mass. Focused on maximizing asset performance, this semi-annual meeting has attracted in excess of 200 professionals, representing more than 60 MRO Software customers and 22 related partner companies in the energy and utility markets. Attendees come together to discuss the effective use of MAXIMO(R), MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. Software's Strategic Asset Management solution. The MAXIMO Utility Working Group represents MAXIMO users and industry professionals in gas and electric transmission & distribution, power generation plus water and wastewater. This meeting also marks the 50th event held in support of MRO Software's utility customers. MRO Software first hosted user events for its utility customers beginning in the late 1970's, with Utility User Group Meetings and Outage Symposiums. In 1997, a group of utility customers formed the user-driven MAXIMO Utility Working Group. As the customer base has grown to more than 250 utilities these events have evolved from a small meeting at the Company's offices to large events hosted by MAXIMO customers around 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. . "These meetings are a great place to exchange ideas and best practices on using MAXIMO in a utility environment. We're pleased to host utility representatives from around the world including the Far East, UK and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. ," said Bill Olsen, MUWG program manager. "This event offers us all an opportunity to share experiences and compare strategies. This particular MUWG meeting is unique in being so close to MRO Software's offices, and many of the sessions are being led by product developers." This meeting's agenda features presentations by representatives by BGE BGE Baltimore Gas and Electric BGE Big Green Egg (grill) BGE Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche) BGE Busch Gardens Europe BGE Branch If Greater or Equal BGE Bacterial Growth Efficiency , International Power (UK), FPL Energy, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Power Authority, Orange County Utilities, Colorado Springs Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. Utilities and EPRI EPRI Electric Power Research Institute EPRI European Parliaments Research Initiatives Solutions. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to get more details on specific MAXIMO industry solutions for Nuclear Power, T&D, Transportation and Calibration. "The MAXIMO Utility Working Group meetings have proven to be valuable to both our customers and to MRO Software as we hear first-hand from a critical user community," said Ron Wallace, global utilities industry marketing director, MRO Software. "MRO Software has always placed importance on working with, and listening to our customers, and I'm pleased to have been personally associated with virtually all of the 50 events held for our utility customers." The MAXIMO Utility Working Group is an independent, voluntary organization sponsored by utilities using MRO Software's MAXIMO strategic asset management solution that provides a forum to exchange information, methods and experiences. For more information on the MAXIMO Utility Working Group please visit www.muwg.org. About MRO Software, Inc. MRO Software is the leading provider of solutions for strategic asset management. The Company's integrated suite of applications optimizes performance, improves productivity and service levels and enables asset-related sourcing and procurement across the entire spectrum of strategic assets. The Company's asset management solutions allow customers to manage the complete lifecycle of strategic assets including: planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance and retirement. Using MRO Software's solutions customers improve production reliability, labor efficiency, material optimization, software license compliance, lease management, warranty and service management and provisioning across the asset base. MRO Software (Nasdaq: MROI) is a global company based in Bedford, Mass., with approximately 900 employees, 10,000 customers and more than 260,000 end-users. The Company markets its products through a direct sales organization in combination with a network of international distributors. MRO Software has sales offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia/Pacific and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Additional information on MRO Software can be found at http://www.mro.com. MAXIMO(R) is a registered trademark, and MRO Software(TM), are trademarks of, MRO Software, Inc. |
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