Pacific Gas and Electric Company Chooses Impress Software to Ensure Accuracy of Asset Data and Optimize Work Management Processes

Impress for GIS to Integrate ESRI ArcGIS and Telvent Miner & Miner ArcFM with SAP

Waltham, MA—April 9, 2007—Impress Software announced that Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has chosen its Impress for GIS packaged integration application as part of a strategic enterprise asset management (EAM) initiative. Impress for GIS was selected to synchronize PG&E’s asset data in SAP with geodata in its ESRI and Telvent Miner & Miner's geographic information system (GIS). Once the implementation is completed, PG&E expects to have approximately 10,000 users leveraging Impress for GIS.

PG&E is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. The company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation, serves approximately 15 million people throughout a 70,000-square-mile service area in northern and central California.

Accenture was an advisor to PG&E in its purchase of Impress for GIS and will lead the implementation.

About Impress for GIS
Impress for GIS is a packaged integration application optimized for bridging SAP with ESRI’s ArcGIS and Telvent Miner & Miner's ArcFM. It automatically links SAP assets with GIS features and maintains asset consistency at all times, dramatically reducing data administration costs while ensuring asset data accuracy. With Impress for GIS, users can create work orders and notifications, update status information, and assign orders to features on a map. In addition, they can analyze SAP work order information with a point-and-click search using multiple user-defined criteria. This information can be rendered on the map and color-coded for spatial analysis and at-a-glance viewing to improve decision making. Leveraging Impress for GIS, organizations like PG&E can generate significant EAM improvements by combining the strengths of GIS and SAP project management (PM).

About Impress Software
Impress Software is a leading provider of packaged integration applications that enable quick and cost-effective integration of project management and geographic information systems with SAP, resulting in streamlined business processes. Impress solutions allow integration to be completed at a fraction of the time and cost compared to custom integration solutions. Impress Software customers include global leaders such as BP, Halliburton, Rockwell Collins, U.S. Army, and Valero.

Contact:
Mike Reilly
fama PR
617-758-4154
impress@famapr.com

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