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iMedeon and psdi deliver complete WEB-BASED, wireless solution FOR maintenance
Complementary Solutions Extend Maintenance Functionality With
Mobile & Wireless Communications
Alpharetta, GA – August 15, 2000 – iMedeon, Inc., the leading provider of Wireless Web Applications for Mobile Workforce Management and PSDI (NASDAQ: PSDI), the leading provider of solutions for streamlining the supply chain for maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) materials, announce an alliance delivering the only robust and scalable solution for the wirelessly-connected maintenance workforce. Now, customers can better control expenses, improve workforce efficiency, and reduce unplanned downtime through better management and optimization of both materials and task execution. Wireless connectivity enables ever more real-time decision-making that delivers staff, skills, equipment, and parts to the right location at the right time.
iMedeon will integrate its iM:Work software suite, for mobile workforce management, with PSDI’s MAXIMO® software suite, complementing PSDI’s suite with real-time wireless connectivity and optimization of task execution. PSDI’s MAXIMO suite of maintenance management software provides a comprehensive array of products to automate operations, including equipment history, scheduling, preventative maintenance, and work order, for any size maintenance organization. “PSDI’s MAXIMO suite gives iMedeon’s iM:Work suite added functionality by tracking labor and expenses, cutting spare parts inventories and costs, increasing purchasing efficiency, and more effectively deploying assets, personnel and other resources,” says Joe Mediate, CEO and president of iMedeon, Inc.
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“These complementary, Web-based solutions extend the power of our iM:Work suite with powerful maintenance capabilities that complement our workforce optimization and task execution.,” adds Mr. Mediate. The combined solution is best because it:
§ Connects all elements of the asset management life cycle from equipment to replacement parts supplier to repair crew;
§ Integrates financial, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and other enterprise applications;
§ Provides a truly web architected work execution platform from which field organizations can intuitively access all resources available on the world wide web from anywhere without paper; and
§ Demonstrates domain expertise in maintenance, repair-and-operations as well as mobile workforce management.
“This complementary offering improves maintenance response and efficiency, in terms of faster repair and lower maintenance expense," said Chip Drapeau, CEO and president of PSDI. "A key ingredient of this alliance is complementary Application Service Provider (ASP) business models, which dramatically overall cost of ownership and speed time to benefit for customers.”
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About iMedeon, Inc.
iMedeon, Inc. is the leading provider of Wireless Web Applications for Mobile Workforce Management, empowering organizations with solutions for increased productivity, improved communication, and higher customer satisfaction. The iMedeon software suite, iM:Work, dramatically increases field service performance in telecommunications, utility, and technology field service industries. iM:Work analyses the activities between field service organizations and the enterprise. iMedeon solutions support any mobile appliance and wireless connection, such as Web phones, PDA’s, and
Windows devices. iMedeon clients include Nextel Communications, Verizon Wireless, Powertel, Wisconsin Public Service and Detroit Water & Sewer. For more information, call 770-777-8100 or visit the company’s web site at www.iMedeon.com.
About PSDI and MRO.com, Inc.
PSDI is the leading solutions provider for streamlining the MRO supply chain for some 7,000 of the world's asset intensive companies. Through its subsidiary, MRO.com, Inc., the company complements its MAXIMO® work and materials management software with its MRO.COM™ brand Internet-based B2B marketplace technology and B2B marketplace for buyers and suppliers, a suite of online procurement software products that improve purchasing efficiency, and Internet-based content management tools and cataloguing services.
Businesses, government agencies, and other organizations use MAXIMO across their enterprise to assist them in the management of their high-value capital assets, such as plants, facilities, and production equipment, to cut inventories and supply chain costs, control maintenance expenses, reduce unscheduled downtime, and more effectively deploy productive assets, personnel and other resources.
Based in Bedford, Mass., PSDI markets its products through a direct sales force with sales offices throughout the United States, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, combined with a network of international distributors. All PSDI news releases are available via the PSDI Home Page at www.psdi.com.
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