Mincom Extends Its Lead with Release of Mincom Ellipse 6; An Enterprise Asset Management Solution Tailored for Asset Intensive Industries with Expanded Support for the Mobile Workforce, Business Analytics Needs and Advanced Maintenance Planning.DENVER -- International software and services company, Mincom, today announced the launch of the latest version of its fully integrated Enterprise Asset Management (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. ) application suite, Mincom 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. 6. Mincom Ellipse 6 further extends Mincom's functional lead in providing an integrated solution to industries such as mining, defense, utilities, government and transportation that are reliant on optimal asset performance for business success. New functionality for the mobile workforce, business analytics and advanced maintenance planning, delivered from a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) platform, complement the integrated Assets and Works Management, Supply and Logistics Management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet , Financial Management and Human Resource Management business modules integral to Mincom Ellipse, giving clients the broadest functionality and the most robust solution in the EAM market. Paul Beesley, Mincom Executive Vice President of Research and Development, said: "Mincom Ellipse 6 extends both our investment and commitment to asset intensive industries and strengthens our offering as we expand into new geographies such as Russia, China and Mongolia. The use of technologies such as SOA and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) infrastructure allows us to introduce products that enable customers to respond more rapidly to future business opportunities. "Analysis of our customers' IT spend shows that a significant portion of their annual budget is spent on upgrading and maintaining existing products and interfaces. By extending our EAI infrastructure in Mincom Ellipse 6 we can now provide customers with a solution that helps them reduce costs while providing them the flexibility and agility they require to remain competitive. "Our use of SOA supports a true component-based development environment where we can partner with other organizations, as well as buy components to complement our development capability. By adopting SOA we can rapidly and efficiently build new products to support our customers' changing business requirements," said Mr. Beesley. Mincom Ellipse 6 builds upon web-based technologies to deliver new collaborative capability that crosses over traditional enterprise application boundaries to provide complete end-to-end business process support. For example, an electronically published manufacturer's safety bulletin newsletter can now trigger automatic creation of planned maintenance activities that, from a compliance and 'duty of care' perspective, can be operations-critical for asset intensive industries. Mincom's expanded mobile capability is another example of collaborative technologies extending the reach of enterprise applications without the need for costly client development. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mr. Beesley: "As mobile devices come down in price and increase in functionality, they are becoming more widely deployed across the enterprise. Mincom Mobile is new capability, supporting logistics and work management field operations and extending enterprise applications to the mobile workforce. This means maximum productivity and operational efficiency for our customers." New to Mincom Ellipse 6 is a fully integrated reporting and business intelligence solution, Mincom Ellipse Reporting. As well as supporting all the typical enterprise reporting With the dramatic expansion of information technology, and the desire for increased competitiveness in corporations, there has been an increase in the use of computing power to produce unified reports which join different views of the enterprise in one place. requirements, Mincom Ellipse Reporting also allows customers to easily identify trends in operational data, access real-time information, and analyze and optimize business performance. Mincom continues to address the demands of asset intensive industries with its new Mincom Work Planner application to support advanced maintenance planning. Mincom Work Planner has specific, integrated tools that allow an organization to optimally balance increased asset availability against the reduced costs of supporting that asset. It provides consolidated graphical views and easy-to-use organizing and scheduling capabilities, delivering better visibility to coordinate work activities -- for short and long term projections. In addition, Mincom Work Planner offers a flexible outage management tool that makes scheduling and rescheduling many hundreds of activities easy and efficient. Implementation of Mincom Ellipse 6 has commenced with a foundation customer and will be available in general release from February 2006. About Mincom Mincom Limited is an international company based in Brisbane, Australia, with more than 25 years' experience in providing business solutions to asset intensive industries such as mining, utilities, transport, defense and government in more than 40 countries. It is the fourth oldest 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. ) company in the world and has more than 1,100 staff in 18 offices across Australia, 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. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , South East Asia East Asia A region of Asia coextensive with the Far East. East Asian adj. & n. , Africa, and Europe. |
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