Mincom Ellipse 8

The Mincom company issued the complete solution on enterprise asset management (EAM solution) with support of work of mobile personnel for the capital-intensive enterprises.

New powerful solution for work of the enterprises and asset management – Mincom Ellipse 8 – increases profitability of production assets and labor productivity, allowing most full to use the recommendations of the standard of asset management of PAS 55.

BRISBANE, Australia, on May 27, 2010 – Mincom, the leading global software provider and services for the capital-intensive enterprises, releases Mincom Ellipse 8 today – the most modern and complete solution on enterprise asset management (EAM) developed especially for the capital-intensive industries. Mincom Ellipse 8 is a result of multimillion investments into researches and more 1000 of product development. This solution provides to the capital-intensive industries, such as mining, defense, power, public infrastructure and transport, completely integrated set of the major applications with a possibility of use of the mobile devices necessary for increase in profitability of funds and labor productivity. The solution Mincom Ellipse 8 is developed taking into account requirements of asset management of the remote and geographically distributed enterprises that is characteristic of capital-intensive industries and public sector.

"Mincom Ellipse 8 is a result of a big deposit of our clients and also 30-year work experience in the capital-intensive industries and in the field of enterprise asset management", – Greg Clark, the chief executive of Mincom says. "Mincom Ellipse 8 is a big step forward in technology of asset management of the enterprises, mobile management of works and the industry solutions allowing to solve unique problems of our clients. Our approach based on open standards means that now Mincom offers the clients big freedom of choice which is maintained new by an integration framework of Mincom Integration Platform and means of data analysis and creation of the reporting of Mincom Enterprise Reporting & Analytics. Now Mincom offers the capital-intensive enterprises using management systems of Oracle or SAP, powerful opportunities of the asset management system of the enterprises, best in the class, and supports of work of mobile personnel".

Clark adds: "Also what in Mincom Ellipse 8 uses the best practices of the PAS 55 standard is not less important, advanced methods of asset management and supports the companies in process of the choice of this approach by them".

The capital-intensive enterprises strongly differ from normal office structures. They often work round the clock and without days off, in dangerous conditions or remote regions, the high complexity and the increased risk are initially inherent in their work. Besides, the most part of their personnel is highly mobile and territorially distributed. Mincom Ellipse 8 includes applications on management of mobile personnel for carrying out surveys, control of assets, automation of operational works and mobile work planning that provides to clients the correct distribution of personnel according to qualification and the complete information for execution of works.

"No other solution on asset management of the enterprises contains completely integrated solutions on management of mobile personnel based on the scalable mobile platform with a possibility of drawing up scheduled plans of work and scheduling of personnel, both beforehand and in real time", – Clark told.

Mincom Ellipse 8 is the new standard of asset management of the capital-intensive enterprises

Mincom Ellipse 8 becomes the new corporate standard of management of the capital-intensive companies around the world and consists of three principal components: the Mincom Ellipse 8 applications for asset management of the capital-intensive enterprises; the new integration Mincom Integration Platform platform representing the ready-made solution for integration with the leading management systems for the enterprises (ERP solutions) and the scalable mobile platform of applications; and the solutions Mincom Enterprise Reporting & Analytics, open and integrated solution in the field of analytics and a reporting preparation. The combination of these three components gives to clients of Mincom the following advantages:

• Architecture of the next generation. Mincom Ellipse 8 is the cornerstone the modern network infrastructure constructed on the service-oriented architecture (SOA) with the reduced requirements to the solution hardware that significantly reduces the need for IT resources and costs for them. Constructed on the dynamic Java runtime environment, open standards and a possibility of use of stacks of Linux/Intel, Mincom Ellipse 8 is also optimized for use in "clouds" and for work with a global network, its performance is checked on a large number of at the same time working users.

• Personalisation and ease of use. Among the basic principles of design of Mincom Ellipse 8 there were a convenience of using, a possibility of individual preference without additional costs, uniformity of the interface and also the intuitive user interface that cuts down expenses on training and facilitates implementation. Personalisation allows clients to configure individually the working procedures performed by end users according to specifics of their job responsibilities, without changing a basic core of the solution.

• Optimal methods of management of production assets. Mincom Ellipse 8 is constructed on the basis of PAS 55 – quickly developing global standard based on use of the best examples of world practice of management of production assets. The PAS 55-1:2008 specification is widely adopted more and more around the world as methodology of optimization of systems and procedures of asset management and also decrease in risk level for workers, the environment and business. Mincom Ellipse 8 allows the organizations aiming to implement processes of PAS 55 in the activity, to standardize procedures of enterprise asset management to increase as much as possible performance of assets, to increase reliability of work and the service level of clients, at the same time fulfilling the requirements of regulating authorities.

Mincom Ellipse 8 also enters two new concepts of asset management:

• Risk and criticality: capability plan, control and change asset management strategies in terms of risk and criticality. It provides a basis of the structured choice of a priority of works and maintenance and raises degree of readiness of fixed assets and availability of services to clients.

• Geospatial perspective: provides asset management taking into account their placement, using the built-in integration tools with geographic information systems (GIS), such as ESRI, GE Smallworld, Intergraph, Mapinfo and Google Maps.

• Advanced technique of work planning. Mincom Ellipse 8 significantly optimizes use of production personnel, including resource managements of third-party contractors. New opportunities of work planning include use of GIS, long-term and short-term planning of works and hardware maintenance in Mincom Ellipse 8 that allows to provide a closed loop of management of works.

• Management of mobile personnel. Now, with implementation of the mobile platform and such applications, as Mincom Field Data Platform for process automation and forms; Mincom Mobile Inspector for carrying out operational surveys of assets; Mincom Mobile Worker for management of works in the place of their carrying out; Mincom Mobile Navigator for ensuring navigation at the level of streets and intersections; Mincom Mobile Locator for determination of the actual location of assets in space and Mincom Commander for planning optimization in real time, users of Mincom Ellipse 8 can manage production assets from the venue of survey, automate execution of works on remote objects and optimize use of mobile personnel, including personnel of third-party contractors.

• Material management and stocks. Mincom Ellipse 8 offers the capital-intensive companies constant and full control over assets, including location and a status of production assets and also control over crucial spare parts and objects of the equipment, optimization of warehouse stocks of spare parts according to the strategy of maintenance and repair of the equipment. Besides, Ellipse 8 provides reliability of financial information about assets, allowing to understand their true cost and volumes of capital investments in business fixed assets at any moment of their lifecycle.

• Reporting and analytics of the enterprise. Mincom Ellipse 8 gives to clients big freedom of choice and flexibility using a new solution on the organization of the reporting and data analysis in the environment of Mincom Ellipse 8. This solution increases transparency of the enterprise, improves support of acceptance of management decisions and increases performance of activity of all enterprise.

The director of research of ARC Advisory Group Ralph Rio says: "The release of the new version of Mincom Ellipse represents a major step forward in technologies, functionality, ease of use and openness of architecture. The software is developed on net by Java in Linux and can be used in "cloud" model. With a possibility of setup to separate fields on specific screens the solution can be set up according to business process of the client. Open standards support joint work with other applications and employees within the enterprise. It is key strategic council of ARC company to the clients. Considering four the listed above directions, the release of Mincom Ellipse 8 waits for success".

Delivery and implementation

Mincom offers implementation services for reduction of risk and costs of clients upon transition to Mincom Ellipse 8. At the same time the business transformation methodology allowing clients to implement completely the potential of implementation of Mincom Ellipse 8 is applied. Mincom Ellipse 8 can be delivered with services in management of the information solution both on the customer's object, and on a hosting in global data center of Mincom.

Availability

Mincom Ellipse 8 can use the companies which are already applying SAP solutions, Oracle, Mincom or other conducting solution providers to enterprise management (ERP solutions). For more details see http://www.mincom.com/en/solutions/Ellipse8.aspx.

About Mincom company

Mincom Pty Ltd – the global software provider and services having 30 years' experience of development and deployment of solutions for the companies of capital-intensive industries and public sector – mining, power engineering specialists, spheres of defense, public infrastructure – in more than 40 countries of the world. Clients of the company are JSC Norilsk Nickel MMC, Anglo American, Thales, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Boeing, National Grid, London Underground, Xstrata Copper, Western Power, QBuild, BNSF Railway, EDF Energy, Caterpillar and Ecopetrol. Mincom Inc. works in North America, being Mincom Pty Ltd subsidiary company. Mincom is owned by Francisco Partners.

To learn more about Mincom company, visit the site www.mincom.ru or www.mincom.com.

Contact persons:

• Samantha Moore, Director, Global Public Relations, Mincom, (slave.) +1.650.240.2354, (mob.) +1.408.712.0612, (e-mail) of samantha.moore@mincom.com

• Kazakov Mikhail, the Marketing director, Mincom in Russia and the CIS countries, (the slave.) +7.495.984.2230, (fax) +7.495.988.6227, (mob.) +7.903.721.5409, (e-mail) of mikhail.kazakov@mincom.com