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Tadpole Wins Field Information Contract From Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water
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With Tadpole's Conic GIS software, utility will be able to improve the
productivity of its field workforces, enhance customer support, and cut the
costs of its field operations
Edinburgh, August 8, 2001 - Tadpole-Cartesia, a leader in field information
systems for the world's utilities and a business unit of mobile computing
and network infrastructure vendor, Tadpole Technology plc (LSE - TAD), today
announced that it had won a further utility contract for its Conic GIS
software.
The contract, from Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water plc, is subject to
successful completion of a pilot and is valued at around £280,000. Scheduled
for roll-out across the utility in Q1, 2002, Tadpole's system will support
the utility's drive to increase the number of tasks undertaken daily by its
mobile workforces, enhance customer response and service, and reduce
operational costs.
Tadpole's Conic GIS software is a well-proven, robust field information
solution for mobile workers in the energy industries and is widely-deployed
by utilities across Europe, North America and Asia. It enables mobile
workers to receive job-related corporate-stored GIS data on handheld devices
in the field such as the location of assets in order to undertake
inspection, repair and maintenance tasks. Once a task is completed, job data
is transmitted back to corporate databases from the field.
"Conic software is a best-of-breed solution for improved collaborative
workflow between mobile workforces and a utility's operational hub," says
Rita Carter, project manager at Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water. "It's
a unique solution for asset inspectors and repair and maintenance teams to
work faster, smarter and more effectively, and a business driver for
Bournemouth and West Hampshire Water to meet its strategic goals."
Mark Ketteman, general manager of Tadpole-Cartesia, adds: "This Bournemouth
and West Hampshire Water contract again underlines the leading value-add
position of Conic GIS within the utility industries. Today, Conic GIS is
fundamental to productivity gains in their mobile workforces and generates
deep savings in operational costs."
About Bournemouth & West Hampshire Water
Bournemouth & West Hampshire Water Plc (www.bwhwater.co.uk) is a statutory
public water supplier serving nearly 200,000 businesses and homes on the
south coast of England. It supplies about 156 Megalitres of water a day on
average through 2750Km of distribution mains but this increases to a peak of
over 240 Megalitres a day in the summer. The Company's history dates back
over 135 years. The original companies were not privatised in 1989 having
always been independent but converted to public limited company status in
September 1992 and merged to form the present company in 1994.
In April 2000, it became the principle component of a 50:50 joint venture
partnership between British multi-national water engineering group, Biwater,
and the Dutch multi-utility company, Nuon. The joint venture has water and
waste water operations in the UK, Mexico, Chile, Indonesia, South Africa and
the Philippines and aims to exploit the $200 billion per year global market
for private sector involvement in water operations.
The utility's water charges per average household (at 27p per day) are 7.0%
below the average for England and Wales (at 29p per day). It has the second
lowest costs per cubic metre of water produced in the water industry.
Bournemouth and West Hampshire and its predecessors have never imposed
restrictions on the use of water for any purpose in its history despite
having the highest proportional growth in summer demand of any UK water
company. It has one of the highest levels of compliance with drinking water
standards in England and Wales at 99.9% in 2000.
Bournemouth and West Hampshire is investing nearly £50 million in
improvements to its assets between 2000 and 2005; £72 million has been
spent from 1990-1999. It has a low level of total leakage at about 14%,
which is close to the economic break-even level and one of the lowest in the
UK. Total leakage includes water lost from customers own pipework which
represents one third of all losses. The Chartermark for excellence in public
service was awarded to the utility in 2000. Only 8 of the 26 water
companies have earned this distinction.
Tadpole-Cartesia, a software business unit of Tadpole Technology plc
(www.tadpole.com), is a leader in enterprise-class mobile information
systems for the world's utilities, telecommunications and public service
industries. Its unique range of mobile business solutions known under the
Conic brand support both Windows and Java platforms and open new vistas for
better management and productivity of field workers, improve customer
service, reduce operational costs, and enable user industries to fully
capitalise their investments in corporate GIS and CAD data. Further
information on Tadpole's businesses on +44 (0)1223 428200 (UK), +1
760-929-0992 (US), or by email sales@tadpole.com.
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