Delivers integration across all Mincom solutions, as well as out-of-the-box integration to other leading ERP platforms, giving asset-intensive businesses industry-leading choice and flexibility

BRISBANE, Australia — (BUSINESS WIRE) — May 27, 2010 — Mincom, a leading global provider of software and services for asset-intensive industries, today announced an open, standards-based platform which, for the first time, offers seamless integration across all Mincom solutions, as well as out-of-the-box integration to other leading ERP platforms. One of the core components of the new Mincom Ellipse 8 EAM solution (see today’s announcement), the Mincom Integration Platform provides businesses in asset-heavy industries – such as mining, defense, energy, public infrastructure and transit – with the ultimate choice and flexibility in the way they use and integrate Mincom solutions.

“All industry-leading organizations well understand the benefits of open software interfaces that are based on well-recognized standards. It leads to easier integration, lower cost, and more choices in software and services across the board. This is particularly important for ERP and EAM business applications,” said Greg Clark, CEO of Mincom. “Through the Mincom Integration Platform, we are able to offer a truly open, scalable, standards-based business process integration approach to ensure asset-intensive businesses can exploit the benefits of processes and information that span packaged application boundaries. This new technology from Mincom provides businesses with the flexibility to select the best applications for a specific requirement.”

Added Clark, “Furthermore, open and standards-based integration tools provide our customers with many choices in service providers. For example, a business may decide to implement SAP or Oracle ERP to support business functions such as finance and HR, while taking advantage of the rich functionality offered by Mincom Ellipse 8 for asset and work management.”

“The Mincom Integration Platform also opens up the possibility for integration with customers, suppliers, contractors and other trading partners, allowing businesses to automatically send and receive orders or payments, and collaborate in a networked environment,” concludes Clark.

Mincom Integration Platform: Open, Standards-Compliant and Scalable

Built upon a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Mincom Integration Platform ensures that Mincom solutions are readily integrated into any IT environment. This enables implementation of a complete solution with minimal time and effort, and also enables the entire IT ecosystem to be kept in sync and up-to-date with the lowest lifecycle cost.

Designed around business-process mapping to exploit the value provided by all systems, the Mincom Integration Platform allows for a more heterogeneous IT environment and ensures that duplication of information is minimized.

The Mincom Integration Platform includes the following capabilities:

• Pre-built integrations between Mincom’s Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) products and other third-party systems (e.g., ERP, GIS, SCADA and more). These were designed specifically for asset-intensive industries, and are based on Mincom’s 30 years of deep industry expertise.
• Complete standards-based integration-enablement environment for Mincom products, providing services for XML, Web Services, HTTP(S), JMS and JDBC.
• Support of synchronous and asynchronous Web Services-based integration.
• Extensive mapping and transformation facilities, with support for multiple integration formats and methods.
• An orchestration layer for integration mapping, processing and routing.
• Easy-to-use tools for configuration, customization and deployment, providing a flexible environment for both pre-configured and custom integrations.
• Support for open B2B integration between an enterprise and its trading partners.
• An enterprise-scalable mobile application environment that supports the mobile applications provided by Mincom, and can be extended to support other mobile applications – so only one mobile platform is needed.
• Extract Transform & Load (ETL) capabilities to integrate vast amounts of rich data found throughout the IT ecosystem in order to populate performance-based data warehouses.
• Pre-configured integration to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to provide geospatial context to asset and work management capabilities.

Through the new Mincom Integration Platform, Mincom now delivers the power of its best-in-class EAM and mobile workforce management solutions to asset-intensive businesses that have adopted ERP platforms from Oracle, SAP or Mincom. The platform is a core component of Mincom’s new EAM solution, Mincom Ellipse 8 – the industry’s most modern and complete EAM solution set designed expressly for industries with asset-intensive operating environments.

Availability

The Mincom Integration Platform is generally available for companies using SAP, Oracle, Mincom or other leading ERP solutions today. For more information, see www.mincom.com

About Mincom

Mincom Pty Ltd is a global software and services provider with nearly 30 years of experience in providing business solutions to companies in asset-intensive industries, such as mining, defense, energy and public infrastructure, in more than 40 countries around the world. Mincom customers include Anglo American, Thales, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Boeing, National Grid, London Underground, Xstrata Copper, Western Power, QBuild, BNSF Railway, EDF Energy, Caterpillar, Siberian Services and Ecopetrol. Mincom Inc. operates in North America and is a subsidiary of Mincom Pty Ltd. Mincom is owned by Francisco Partners.

For more information about Mincom, visit www.mincom.com.

Contact:

Mincom
Samantha Moore, (desk) +1-650-240-2354