Orion Selects Intergraph's G/Electric for Next-Generation Geofacilities Management System.

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001

Comprehensive search for system to address

future needs leads to open, scalable G/Technology

Intergraph Utilities (Nasdaq: INGR) announced today that the company has signed a contract with Orion New Zealand Limited to provide G/Electric, Intergraph's Geofacilities Management System, which will replace the company's existing GIS and create workflow efficiencies that will enhance service to the company's 164,000 connection points. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Orion is the leading South Island electric network company.

Following an intensive evaluation of leading utility GIS solutions, Orion selected Intergraph's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) G/Electric software, which is based on standard, non-proprietary programming tools and offers high performance and scalability as well as ease of use and development. It provides the advantages of COTS software, such as support for ongoing application extensions and ease of maintenance and upgrades. G/Electric's integrated environment provides enterprisewide access to data via a spatially enabled Oracle database.

Orion Project Manager, Tim Slack, commented, "Orion has worked hard over the years to get the maximum benefit out of its GIS but has been increasingly frustrated by its limitations. Last year, we started a project to investigate the new generation of GIS tools now available from several vendors. The more we learned about them, the more excited we became with the possibilities they offered. Our first challenge was to decide which vendor to choose."

To ensure that the new solution met Orion's comprehensive set of requirements, the evaluation team included representatives from Mapping, Operations, and Asset Management. Slack continued, "We sent a team of five to visit electrical utility sites in Australia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. to see the new technology in action and to interact with leading innovators. Orion has never before invested so much in a technology selection process, but in hindsight it has been very worthwhile. We are now very comfortable that in choosing G/Electric we have a solution that will indeed take Orion into the 21st Century."

Intergraph's Director of Utilities and Communications for Australasia, Ashok Magan said, "We were extremely pleased that Orion, one of New Zealand's most experienced and sophisticated GIS users, chose Intergraph as its supplier into the future."

Intergraph Utilities Background Information

Intergraph Utilities provides the world's leading Windows NT-based Geospatial Resource Management solutions for utilities. Intergraph Utilities solutions integrate a full range of asset information management and decision support tools into a truly blended, enterprise IT environment. The company's products for Geospatial Resource Management include G/Solutions for electric, gas, water, and pipeline companies, FRAMME, and FRAMME Web View and Field View. Dedicated to streamlining the entire workflow, Intergraph also offers the InService suite of products, addressing outage management, workforce management, crew dispatch, and mobile data needs.

Intergraph Corporation is a worldwide provider of end-to-end technical solutions and systems integration. Intergraph's vertically focused business units develop, market, and support software and services for local and national governments, and for global industries, including process and power, utilities, communications, mapping/GIS, photogrammetry, and public safety. Headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., with offices worldwide, Intergraph common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol: INGR. Intergraph is located on the Web at www.intergraph.com.

Intergraph and the Intergraph Logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. FRAMME and InService are trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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