WVEM (Belgium) Selects Intergraph Technology as Enabling Core of Enterprise Network Resource Management System

G/Technology and GeoMedia to be technology enablers of enterprisewide solution

BRUGGE, Belgium, September 18, 2003 - Intergraph Benelux today announced that West-Vlaamse Energie- en Teledistributiemaatschappij (WVEM) selected Intergraph's G/Technology and GeoMedia(R) software as the enabling AM/FM/GIS platform for its Enterprise Network Resource Management System. Located in Flanders, WVEM is a multi-utility, providing electric, gas and telecommunications (both coaxial and fiber) services to more than 200,000 customers.

The contract, valued at $2.2 million (U.S.), consists of Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions' software, maintenance and professional services, including project management and implementation services. The Enterprise Network Resource Management System will replace the company's legacy GDS system from which data will be migrated into G/Technology's open geospatial warehouse. G/Technology will be used to manage WVEM's electrical, gas and coaxial/fiber infrastructures. GeoMedia's open architecture and live data integration will enable WVEM to bring all relevant geospatial data into a single environment. The comprehensive project will also include integration with other corporate systems, such as SAP and network calculation applications.

Intergraph was chosen because of the many longstanding and successful partnerships with utility companies in the Benelux area, as well as the potential of Intergraph's state-of-the-art and industry-specific technology to meet WVEM's objectives now and in the future.

According to Martin Caerels, Technical Director of WVEM, "Initially, the Intergraph-based system will help us optimally manage technical network information about our existing distribution assets for electricity, gas and cable TV. Beyond that, the Intergraph technology is flexible and scalable enough to meet our future growth requirements and to play a substantial role in which the new geospatial component will become a strategic tool as part of our overall information management infrastructure."

"We are excited to be partnering with WVEM and welcome them into our fast-growing user community in the Benelux region, where Intergraph has become the solution provider of choice for a significant number of utility and communications initiatives," said Arthur Spencer, Executive Vice President, Utilities & Communications Division, Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions. "G/Technology will assist WVEM in the day-to-day planning of their multi-utility infrastructure and help speed their response to changes in the fast-moving energy market."

The first phase of the project will start immediately with several incremental deliveries beginning in April of 2004.

West-Vlaamse Energie- en Teledistributiemaatschappij (WVEM)

Belgium WVEM is a Belgian multi-utility company responsible for the transmission and distribution of electrical energy (high and low voltage) in 13 municipalities, gas distribution in 9 municipalities and telecommunications distribution (both coaxial and fiber) in 31 municipalities and employs more than 400 people. The network contains 4.878 km of electrical infrastructure,

1. 222 km of gas distribution and a +10.000 km cable TV network. Total revenues for 2002 exceeded $128 million (EUR), serving more than 200,000 people.

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions 

Intergraph Mapping and Geospatial Solutions is a leading geospatial solutions provider for the following markets: local, state and federal government; transportation; utilities; communications; location-based services; photogrammetry; remote sensing; cartography; and military and intelligence. 

www.intergraph.com/gis

 

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