SPESCOM SOFTWARE INC.

Enterprise Configuration Management in Nuclear Plants, Pipelines and Offices

ENTERPRISE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT

A handful of pioneering companies set out in the 1980`s to provide a better alternative for managing documents electronically. Three of these, Alpharel, Optigraphics and Trimco who, by the mid-90`s, had amalgamated to emerge as Altris Software Inc, a leading organization focused exclusively on enterprise document management.

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

By 2000, Altris had a blue-chip customer base and a major investment was made by one of its partner, Spescom Ltd based in South Africa. This investment resulted in Altris becoming a Spescom subsidiary, and forming a cornerstone for the Spescom Group`s global operations. Spescom transferred its powerful configuration management technology and skills to the company. From this combination of document management and configuration management technologies and skills, Spescom Software Inc. emerged on October 1, 2001.

ECM, ENTERPRISE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

Our solutions and products are all based on our powerful platform, eB that provides enterprise content management (ECM) and enterprise configuration management functionality in a single environment. This enables us to deliver a range of intelligent data and document management solutions that ensure the efficient capture, management, storage and distribution of all types of information.

eB enables all types of documents and content e.g. Word, Excel, CAD, paper, audio, video, etc., to be managed throughout their lifecycles.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT

It provides the capabilities of a content management suite such as imaging, document management, records management, collaboration and workflow. It also provides the proven disciplines of configuration management -- identification, change control, status accounting and audit to manage products or assets throughout their lifecycles. Built on a modern n-Tier architecture and utilizing the .Net framework, eB provides interoperability and scalability across an enterprise. Its open, standards based architecture and powerful Application Programming Interface (API), enables rapid customization and integration with other business systems.

COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT, CHANGE MANAGEMENT, REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT, ITEM MANAGEMENT

• Requirements management
• Document management
• Item management
• Change management
• Records management
• Collaborative workspace management
• Configuration management
• all on a single platform that is easily deployable, customizable and scalable

• Capture, identify, structure and securely store all the information (documents, content and data) about your assets, products and processes and manage this information throughout its life cycle
• Ensure that conformance between requirements, physical plant/product configurations and all information is maintained
• Control the configuration of your assets, products and processes throughout their life cycles including base lines, modifications, deviations -- even by serial number if required
• Determine the impact of all proposed changes and effectively control the notification and implementation of all approved changes
• Keep records of enterprise critical transactions, emails and correspondence to ensure compliance with regulatory demands and protect your organization from potential legal threats
• Enhance collaboration amongst organizations and project teams by enabling them to work concurrently on designing, building, upgrading and maintaining your assets and products, yet ensuring that full control is kept of all information throughout this process including all changes that are made

PIPELINE INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT, PLANT LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT

Based on eB, Spescom has developed a comprehensive information management solution for nuclear operators, plant life cycle management, pipeline integrity management, and transportation asset or infrastructure. This enables the identification of all design requirements, plant systems, structures and components, pipeline regulations and  requirements, all pipeline segments and equipment, and associated documents, data, drawings and records in a single integrated environment and ensuring conformance between these by means of automated work processes, best practice change management processes and automated change management processes. It also ensures:

CONFIGURATION CONTROL INFORMATION SYSTEM, 49 CFR PART 195, INPO AP-929, 49 CFR PART 192

• Implementation of the ANSI/NIRMA CM1.0-2000 ``Guidelines for Configuration Management of Nuclear Facilities``
• Establishment of an effective Configuration Control Information System (CCIS)
• Ensuring conforming with the INPO AP-929 ``Configuration Control Process Description``
• Establishment of an effective pipeline integrity management plan and process to ensure compliance with 49 CFR Part 192 or 49 CFR Part 195
• Creating a baseline assessment plan and maintaining assessment integrity records
• Managing and controlling all facility, pipeline information (documents, drawings, data, records, etc) throughout their life cycles

Our eB solutions are fully integrated with leading CAD (AutoCAD, MicroStation), GIS (ESRI) and EAM ( MAXIMO, Indus) applications.

Integrated document management is a cost-effective solution to the growing paper-related drain on your company`s profits. Public service organizations are also custodians of vast amounts of information. This information is traditionally distributed in paper form and imposes a massive burden of care onto government and public utility departments who are regulated by law to maintain and make available those documents in a timely manner. And Spescom Software`s solutions are uniquely suited to manage documents within manufacturing environments or government bodies. We have proven experience in successfully eliminating vast quantities of paper documents -- ranging in size from aperture cards to 30-foot-long drawings - -at some of the largest manufacturing enterprises around the world.

Another solution is Spescom Software`s eB CM as a way to automate document distribution and add electronic view, markup, edit, print and fax tools. Spescom Software`s eB CM provides a core imaging capability to further extend the value of your existing system. With this low-cost distribution system, users can view multiple objects such as pages, sheets, markups, sound and video from any network workstation.