Spescom eB Selected by Leicester City Council to Facilitate eGovernment
SAN DIEGO, Feb 27, 2003 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Spescom Software Inc., formerly
Altris Software, Inc. (OTC BB: ALTS), a leading provider of integrated document,
configuration and records management (iDCR) solutions, today announced that
through its partnership with CACI International (NYSE:CAI), a leading provider
of IT solutions, Leicester City Council in the United Kingdom (UK) has purchased
a site-wide license for Spescom's eB software suite.
The Spescom-based integrated document management and workflow solution
facilitates eGovernment by allowing paper documents to be scanned, indexed,
stored, retrieved and distributed electronically while providing cross-
reference access to the Leicester City Council main Oracle database.
This contract is a result of the close relationship Spescom has established with
CACI to address the needs of local government and related markets in the UK, and
follows the highly successful implementation of an eB-based document management
and workflow solution by CACI within Leicester City Council's Housing Benefits
Department. CACI is headquartered in Washington, DC with over 5800 employees in
approximately 100 locations in the US and Europe.
Commenting on the deployment of eB, Steve Browne, Leicester City Council's
Housing Benefits Manager said: "In general terms, the Spescom-based solution is
a key enabler in making sure that we comply with central government's
performance requirements for local authorities, particularly in respect to
providing a better service to our clients. Specifically, eB will enable us to
meet and exceed targets that have been set for us. We confidently expect to be
in the upper quartile of local authorities within a short period of time."
Browne added, "We give CACI and Spescom full marks for successfully positioning
Leicester's Housing Benefits Department to effectively meet the demands being
made on it by clients, councillors and central government."
With a population of 280,000, Leicester is the largest city in the East Midlands
region and the tenth largest city in the UK. The Leicester Housing Benefits
department was receiving over 6,000 new six-page documents a week, with a
caseload of live files at around 40,000, each containing between 300 and 400
pages, prompting the need for Spescom's eB. In addition to reducing the cost of
handling paperwork and providing improved customer service, the new integrated
document system enables the agency to meet the requirements of eGovernment's
back and front office tasks which would be very difficult, if not impossible, to
process without the Spescom-based solution delivered by CACI.
Carl Mostert, Spescom Software CEO commented: "The success of the eB system
installed at Leicester City Council is attracting great interest in the local
government market in the UK. The ability of eB to manage documents, records and
assets, its ease of use, retrieval speeds and corporate deployment potential
convinced Leicester City Council of its value. Now, in partnership with CACI, we
expect to expand our eGovernment solutions in the UK market."
About Spescom eB
eB is a registered trademark of Spescom Software Inc. eB comprises an extensive
set of software components that together form the foundation for an extremely
flexible and powerful information management platform. eB's components include:
document management; requirements management; records management; item
management; change management; configuration management and workflow components.
These components are tightly integrated with CAD, GIS, office and email
applications to capture and view information. The full functionality of eB is
available via a set of API's that enable the rapid definition and deployment of
customer specific solutions and integration with other line-of-business
applications including ERP, EAM, SCM and project management products.
About Spescom Software Inc.
Spescom Software (OTCBB: ALTS) delivers enterprise eBusiness solutions that
provide rapid access to accurate information in context to assets, products and
processes, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, productivity and safety.
It achieves this through a tightly integrated suite of document, configuration
and records management technologies that not only allows it to capture and
securely store information, but also organizes and structures this information
to place it in context.
Key customers include Ocean Energy, Continental Express, AmerenUE, City of
Winston-Salem, Sempra Energy, Eastern Municipal Water District, Entergy,
Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Network Rail (Railtrack), and many
others. |
