22 October 2003, 09:02am ET
Spescom eB Selected by Pan-American Energy and Chaco For Enterprise Deployment
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spescom Software Inc., formerly Altris Software, Inc. (BB:ALTS), and its Argentinean business partner Daassnet, today announced that Pan American Energy (Argentina), a joint venture between BP/Amoco and Bridas, and Chaco (Bolivia), a subsidiary of Pan American Energy, have agreed to widely deploy eB, its integrated document, configuration and records (iDCR) management solution across their organizations. The eB system is being used to streamline the business processes used in many departments as well as to manage all documents and engineering drawings.
Pan American Energy will use eB with its internal ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application, for project management and administration, including providing document services to third-party contractors for storing drawings and technical specifications. eB Workflow will be used to provide document routing site-wide on all facilities. New phases will see eB being deployed into Business Development and Gas Operations, and into Legal and Finance. eB Mail will also be installed later in the year to manage incoming email.
Chaco will also use eB with its Pan American Energy shared internal ERP application as well as for managing technical documents for Geo-Scientists. eB Workflow will provide process improvements for administration processes and for managing the control and distribution of physical documents such as well logs.
Daniel Gorodetzky, Managing Partner of Daassnet explained that eB had shown both companies compelling benefits and value, which he expected would set a benchmark for other organizations in Latin America.
"eB was a natural choice for us once we considered the requirements of the organization and the success already shown from its use at Pan American Energy," said Manuel Paz, IT Supervisor at Chaco, who selected eB after a detailed evaluation of Spescom's competitors. "Our analysis showed a lower cost of deployment and a quicker return on investment than the other competitors we evaluated. Daassnet's local presence and technical competency played a major part in our final choice."
"eB is one of our core business tools to help us manage our critical business information," said Marcelo Peremolnik, IT Manager at Pan American Energy, who decided to extend the use of eB to all departments within Pan American Energy after seeing the benefits it provided the Engineering Department. "We believe it can also help us further improve our productivity and customer service by leveraging additional eB modules such as Workflow and e-Mail management."
"These successful projects further demonstrate the value we bring to these large companies in the oil and gas market, both in the U.S. and through our overseas partners," said Carl Mostert, Spescom Software's CEO. "Our functionally rich and flexible eB software platform is well suited to address the different needs of these organizations, enabling them to achieve their regulatory and business objectives."
About Spescom Software Inc.
Spescom Software (BB:ALTS) delivers information management solutions that capture, manage and control all enterprise content in context to the assets, products and processes that it relates to, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, productivity and safety. It achieves this through a tightly integrated suite of document, configuration and records management technologies that enable the identification of all critical enterprise information, the effective management of change and the maintaining of records to ensure regulatory compliance.
Key customers include Bechtel, Ocean Energy, Continental Express, AmerenUE, City of Dayton, Lloyds Register of Shipping, United Space Alliance, Entergy, Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Network Rail, and many others.
About Spescom eB
eB(R) 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. These components are tightly integrated with leading CAD, GIS, office and email applications to capture, store 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.
Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this release include forward-looking statements that are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market acceptance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory environment, the effect of the company's accounting policies, potential seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the company's SEC filings.
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