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Amena of Spain selects Smallworld
Mobile phone provider to implement end-to-end network management solution
Cambridge (February 22, 2000) - Smallworld (Nasdaq: SWLDY), the world’s leading supplier of network management software products, today announced the third largest mobile phone provider in Spain, Amena, has selected Smallworld to provide a complete network management system.
Amena is the mobile phone unit formed last year by Endesa and Telecom Italia. Since it began offering service last year, the company has seen explosive growth and is expected to reach 1 million customers, or about 7 percent of the total mobile phone market, by the end of this year.
“Smallworld impressed us with the functionality and scalability of their product set, and with their understanding of our requirements,” said Mar Sanchez, Amena’s GIS project manager. “We are confident that Smallworld is the solution we need to share and exploit spatial information throughout all areas of our business.”
To expand the reach of the Smallworld network management solution, Amena will also use SmallworldWeb, which supplies spatial data to employees via a corporate intranet, to link 500 users in two key call centers with data on elements such as coverage quality and local phone dealers. Smallworld will work with Endesa Servicios, a local systems integrator, to implement the network management system.
“Implementation of this sophisticated network management solution will help Amena provide world-class telephone services and expand its leadership role in Spain’s burgeoning telecommunications marketplace,” said Richard Green, vice president of Smallworld’s Communications Division.
Smallworld 3, an object-oriented spatial resource planning system created by Smallworldwide plc (Nasdaq: SWLDY), enables spatial data to be integrated with a company’s existing systems for work management, engineering analysis, customer care and outage management. It’s also designed to support the rapid development and deployment of software applications that leverage spatial data in new ways.
“Giving companies the capability to use spatial data as a means of improving business processes and passing those rewards on to their customers is what spatial resource planning is all about,” said Dick Newell, chairman of Smallworld. “We’re happy to be playing a role in assisting a new industry player to get off the ground.”
Smallworld (www.swldy.com) creates, markets and delivers spatial resource planning (SRP) software products to the Utility & Public Systems and Communications markets globally. Smallworld Communications is an integrated suite of applications, designed to build a fully connected, end-to-end network model that seamlessly integrates inside plant data (ISP) and outside plant data (OSP). Smallworld Communications is an open solution, designed to conform to the interconnection requirements of the TMN model and to address key business operations by integrating market statistics and customer information from other enterprise systems. Smallworld Communications provides an integrated business and operations support solution for the communications operator, unlocking the value of the spatial data and building uniquely integrated solutions. Smallworld Communications is used by more than 70 communications companies around the world.
Smallworld is based at Elizabeth House, 1 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1WR, England; Telephone, +44 (0) 1223.301144, and in the United States at 5600 Greenwood Plaza Dr., Englewood, CO 80111, +1.303.779.6980.
Please note that some statements contained within this report may be of a forward-looking nature and may involve risks and uncertainties. Actual future results and outcomes may differ materially from those discussed. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to, management of growth, market acceptance of the Company's product and services, risks associated with new product versions, dependence on third party relationships and the activities of competitors. For a more detailed discussion of the risks associated with the Company’s business, please see the Company’s Form 20-F on file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
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