luetooth, wireless solution provides accurate, quick barcode scanning in the field

Wilsonville, OR—July 6, 2006—Corrigo, the leading provider of on-demand service management solutions, and Baracoda, the leading manufacturer of Bluetooth wireless barcode scanners, have teamed together to provide mobile service workers with the tools for an in-the-field inventory management and data capture solution.

MRO Software Inc. (Nasdaq:MROI), the leading provider of asset and service management solutions and Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset reliability solutions, announced that Ivara has joined the MRO Software Complementary Solution Partner program.

Ivara is an industry leader in equipment reliability consulting services and enabling technologies and the parent company of Aladon LLC, specialists in the facilitation and training of Reliability-Centered Maintenance methodologies. As a reliability partner for MRO Software, Ivara will deliver enhanced reliability capabilities to complement the Maximo Enterprise Suite. The combined offering supported by Ivara’s reliability software, EXP, will help customers to improve the effectiveness of their maintenance organization and overall equipment performance. 

Mainstream was selected by Boddie-Noell Enterprises (BNE), one of the largest privately held companies in the U.S, to provide CrossForm software to manage their facility operations. CrossForm will be used to manage all of the Boddie-Noell Enterprises, most recognized by their number one enterprise, Hardee’s restaurant.

Boddie-Noell covered new ground with the Hardee’s restaurant when fast food was a new concept. When Boddie-Noell began in 1962 the staff consisted of only three people. Today, BNE has grown to employ over 11,000 individuals. Boddie-Noell is the largest franchisee of Hardee’s, operating over 300 restaurants. Additional ventures include: Rose Hill Conference Center, BNE Land and Development, Texas Steakhouse, Café Carolina, BBQ & Ribs, Moe’s Southwest Grill and The Highway Diner. Mainstream’s CrossForm ASP solution improves management of BNE’s 300 plus restaurant facilities and their valuable assets. BNE is currently enhancing their CrossForm application by adding CrossForm Mobile Tech, Mainstream’s PDA based solution. Mobile Tech will enable BNE’s 40 technicians to efficiently capture data while working offsite. Technicians will be able to synchronize to the CrossForm database to send and receive up-to-date work order information, streamlining BNE’s operations. 

Tuesday, July 18, 2006 – Irvine, California - INOVx Solutions, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for Asset Certainty, announced today the availability of RealityLINx version 4.0, its innovative Virtualization technology. This is part of INOVx’s long-term commitment to ever improving asset management solutions for the process industry.

RealityLINx Virtualization software is designed specifically to provide the most simplified way to access and navigate the immense amount of enterprise asset data using a robust and flexible integration environment based on the accurate and precise virtual reality view of a facility. When coupled with job specific features, RealityLINx users have reported considerable productivity gains of up to 2 to 3 hours per day per user as well as significant benefits resulting from more informed decision making. “A simulated plant walkthrough using RealityLINx from INOVx to access a plant model with all assets and related information is a great example of the ease of use, flexibility, capabilities and value proposition of virtualization”, said Houghton LeRoy, Research Director at the ARC Advisory Group.

By Houghton Leroy, ARC Advisory Group

MRO Software is the leading supplier of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solutions worldwide, according to the latest market research report from ARC Advisory Group, and they recently briefed ARC on their Maximo Transportation Industry Solution.

According to the briefing, Maximo Enterprise Suite (MXES), MRO Software’s best of breed EAM solution, spans most asset classes for many industries, includes a unique approach to service management, and supports risk and compliance requirements.  MRO offers targeted industry solutions for Transportation, Nuclear, Oil & Gas, Transmission & Distribution, and Pharmaceuticals with deep functionality.  Industry focused extensions, solution roadmaps, joint advisory councils, and a knowledgeable partner network give added value to customers and demonstrate MRO’s commitment to their verticals.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona—July 7, 2006 CyberMetrics Corporation, a privately-held software and solutions provider founded in 1988 and located in Scottsdale, Arizona, achieved an all-time quarterly sales record during Q2, ’06. Sales of CyberMetrics’ software, training, and services rose 17.7% over the second quarter of last year, eclipsed the company’s previous best quarter (Q1, ’05), and beat most analyst’s expectations. 

Greenville, SC – July 17, 2006 – SeverCorr LLC is building the next generation steel mill in Northeast Mississippi, near the city of Columbus. SeverCorr, a brand-new steel company with a 1.5 million ton capacity facility has selected TabWare EFX from AssetPoint (www.assetpoint.com) as their CMMS/EAM software for the new facility. The steel mill – with a state of the art melt shop, thin slab caster, hot mill, cold mill and a hot-dip galvanizing line – serves a growing manufacturing infrastructure in the Southern United States. The facility is located in Lowndes County Mississippi, with easy access to both rail and Interstate truck routes for fast delivery to more than twelve targeted states. The SeverCorr plant is expected to be completed and in production by late 2007. 

Infor, one of the largest global providers of enterprise software, has been recognized by Cognos for Infor Datastream 7i, the industry’s leading web-architected asset performance management solution, which was awarded Best OEM Hosted Solution at the recent Cognos Forum 2006. Infor won the prestigious Platinum award for Datastream 7i’s outstanding integration capabilities and its sales performance with broad customer adoption.

SAT Corporation, the market leader in Mobile Workforce Automation solutions released their next generation IntelaTrac solution at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. The IntelaTrac Version 3.0 mobile task management and collaborative automation system has been migrated to the latest Microsoft .NET technologies to provide a truly extendable mobile infrastructure for rapid deployment of additional capabilities and new modules.

Enterprise applications software provider, Mincom, has signed a major contract with Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo) to provide an integrated Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution.

The Mincom Transportation Solution is used by passenger and freight organizations to support operations and maintain infrastructure. Customers include Long Beach Transit Authority, USA, AC Transit, USA, Metronet, UK (supporting London Underground), and Network Rail, UK.