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ASX Company News: ISS Group Secures Gorgon Operations Information Centre Contract

Friday, January 20th, 2012

ISS Group Limited (ISS) is pleased to announce that Chevron Australia Pty Ltd has selected ISS Group as a supplier for The Provision of Operations Information Center – Real-Time Services Technology utilising ISS Group’s BabelFishTM product suite and services. The initial value of this contract is approximately AUD$2.4 Million over the next 12 months comprising licenses, services, maintenance & support.

The AUD$43 Billion Gorgon Project is one of the world’s largest natural gas projects and the largest single resource natural gas project in Australia’s history. The Gorgon Project will develop the Gorgon and Jansz/Io gas fields, located within the Greater Gorgon area, about 130 kilometres off the north-west coast of Western Australia. It includes the construction of a 15 million tonne per annum (MTPA) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to provide 300 terajoules per day to supply gas to Western Australia.

ISS Group delivers software solutions to the global energy, minerals and manufacturing industries. ISS Group was established in 1995 and listed on the ASX in 2004. The Company has offices in Australia, US, Europe and Asia and has a blue chip client base including Chevron, BHP Billiton, Woodside, Rio Tinto, Shell, BG Group, BP, Petronas, Hess Corporation. The company’s flagship product BabelFishTM is a powerful interface through which companies can aggregate their many disparate real-time systems to provide a single holistic view of their complex processes and operations.

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ASX Company News: Prophecy Secures Two New Utilities Billing Contracts

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

Prophecy International (PRO) is pleased to announce that two of its sales campaigns for its basis2 utilities billing solution have been successfully completed with contracts now in place. These are at the smaller end of the scale, but will deliver over $1.5m of new revenue to the Prophecy group. A portion of this revenue is expected to be billed in this half, allowing Prophecy to meet its revenue and profit expectations for this part of its business.

Prophecy has been working diligently in a tough market and is very pleased with these sales outcomes. One of the sales has come out of our North American region and the other from EMEA covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  In addition, Prophecy has been working with partners to move into the Software as a Service space so that the basis2 billing solution can be provided in the Cloud along with complementary products to fulfil a total solution for large customers on a worldwide basis. This is a market space that has a very large potential and our product is very well suited to the complexities of this part of the market. We see this area as one to provide future growth to our utilities solution package. Activity in this space is expected to accelerate during 2012.

The basis solution operates in a market that is very competitive and we have once again been able to demonstrate that we do have an appealing solution for each level, ranging from the small customers all the way through to the large part of the market space

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ASX Company News: Anittel Group Extends Two Key Agreements

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Anittel Group Limited (AYG), is pleased to announce that it will continue its Managed Service agreements with two large key enterprise clients. As part of the Managed Service agreements Anittel will provide IT support to more than 2300 users across 79 locations in Australia, including the provision of full time onsite technician teams. The 2 year agreements represent over $2.6 million per year in initial direct services revenue. The agreements contain annual review and renewal points.

Anittel Enterprise Account Manager, George Fattouche, has welcomed the announcement. “Anittel is committed to providing an exceptional service to our clients. The decision by our clients to renew our agreements is testament to that. Our onsite resources were one of the main elements both clients wanted to maintain. It helps provide them with peace of mind which means they can focus on their business whilst knowing their overall technology requirements are in good hands,” Mr Fattouche said. A representative from one of the companies summarised that Anittel’s overall professionalism, dedication, and commitment could not be questioned. “They have done an excellent job and have worked very well to achieve the outcome we have”, said the representative.

The renewal of the enterprise Managed Service Agreements strengthens Anittel’s capacity to service clients across Australia. It also follows the recent announcement of a service agreement with NBN Co and the opening of two new regional NSW offices in Tamworth and Armidale. Anittel provides voice, data, mobility, PBX, IP telephony, IT and hosted services for small to medium-sized enterprises with a particular focus on regional Australia. The company is expanding through organic growth and targeted acquisitions to offer scale, geographic reach and expertise for existing and prospective customers in this under-serviced market space.

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ASX Company News: Amcom Telecommunications Acquires L7 Solutions

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Amcom Telecommunications (AMM), a leading telecommunications provider, is pleased to announce that it has acquired L7 Solutions Pty Ltd (L7) for $15m. L7 is an information technology company, specialising in the provision of IT integration solutions, managed services, advisory and related services, generating revenue of $40m in FY11. Established in 2004, L7 has a strong reputation having built its business organically in the Perth market. Now employing 130 staff, with approximately 200 clients across the Enterprise and Government sectors.

Amcom’s CEO Clive Stein said, “The acquisition is an excellent strategic fit for Amcom as it provides complementary product offerings and importantly, leverages our existing fibre network assets and opens opportunities to offer new services into our existing customer base. The L7 business has an extensive skills capability that will enable us to accelerate our recently launched Cloud offering. There are significant cross selling opportunities into our existing 900 corporate and Government customer base.” “For FY13, we expect the business to deliver at least $4m in EBITDA, the first full financial year as part of the group. This means it will be strongly EPS accretive that year” said Stein.

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ASX Company News: NetComm To Supply Melbourne South East Water

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

NetComm Limited (NTC) has announced that South East Water, one of Melbourne’s three water retailers owned by the Victorian Government, has selected NetComm to supply HSPA Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Routers for the remote monitoring and control of pressure sewerage pump units located in areas spanning the south east of Melbourne to South Gippsland. As part of its long term backlog program, South East Water connects households on septic tanks to the networked sewerage system. High-speed NetComm HSPA M2M Routers are being deployed by South East Water to deliver data from the new pressure sewerage pump units back to a central supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA host system over the internet using 3G connectivity. NetComm HSPA M2M Routers provide undisrupted point-to-point or point-to-multipoint wireless communications for the remote management, regulation and control of sewerage pumps located in demanding environments such as mountainous terrains, high water table districts, environmentally sensitive regions, high gravity zones and other areas typically serviced by pressure sewerage systems. An initial deployment will commence in early November this year.

“The extraordinary growth of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connectivity is largely driven by demand from innovative utility companies such as South East Water. We are pleased to have been selected to develop the advanced wireless M2M technology needed to support South East Water’s strong commitment to innovation and customer service.” said David Stewart, Managing Director, NetComm. Designed to create wide area networks utilising the flexibility of 3G, the Routers support multi-level system monitoring for reliable communications that can be managed from a computer or smart phone via a web interface. Multiple communication interfaces and protocols are supported to meet the demands of today’s telemetry and WAN applications; and the embedded Linux operating system and available Software Development Kit (SDK) enables the installation of custom firmware.

South East Water is owned by the Victorian Government and is one of Melbourne’s three metropolitan water retailers. South East Water provides water, sewerage and recycled water services to 1.5 million residential, business, industrial and institutional customers in Melbourne’s south east. NetComm Limited (NTC) is a leading developer of innovative broadband products for telecommunications carriers and ISPs worldwide. Specialising in fixed and mobile broadband technologies, NetComm customises products to successfully deliver the performance capabilities of world-leading carrier networks to home.

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ASX Company News: Empired Secures WA Main Roads IT Contract Extension

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Australian listed IT Services Company Empired Limited (EPD) is pleased to announce that it has secured an extension to its contract to provide IT Services to Main Roads Western Australia (Main Roads).   The $14M contract extension will see Empired continue to provide Infrastructure operational services plus project services to Main Roads over the next two years.

Under the terms of the contract Empired delivers a comprehensive range of services to Main Roads including service desk, desktop, server and network managed infrastructure services. In addition, Empired will continue to undertake a significant program of work to transform the Main Roads technology environment to deliver the business benefits from a range of new and innovative technologies.

Main Roads are responsible for Western Australia’s highways and main roads which represent almost 30% of Western Australia’s total assets. Main Roads are one of the largest geographically spread road agencies in the world, covering 2.5 million square kilometres.

Empired Managing Director, Russell Baskerville said securing this extension is a major milestone for Empired. “We are very proud that the WA state government has entrusted Empired to manage core IT systems that have a direct impact on the smooth, seamless operation of critical state infrastructure.”    “This contract extension highlights Empired’s expertise and capability in providing Infrastructure Managed Services to large scale organisations.”

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ASX Company News: Mobile Embrace Partners with Modapt

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

Mobile Embrace Limited (MBE), Australia’s leading integrated mobile and digital communications company, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Modapt for the Australian market to sell and implement Modapt’s mobile adaption software, enabling businesses to adapt their existing websites so they can be viewed in a user- friendly way on any mobile phone that supports internet browsing. Mobile Embrace’s sales reach will expand as it will take over management of Modapt’s commission only Australian resellers and current sales pipeline. Mobile Embrace will also work with Modapt in servicing its existing customers and provide implementation services and consultancy for Modapt’s USA resellers and customers. Revenue is generated from hosting, licensing and implementation fees.

Neil Wiles, Managing Director of Mobile Embrace, said: “We are excited to be partnering with Modapt. We share Modapt’s goal to provide users with the best possible experience on mobile.” “As the statistics show, currently very few websites are optimised for viewing on a mobile phone screen, making the user experience a poor one. Businesses must embrace mobile because that’s the way of the future. People will access the internet primarily on a mobile device and the ‘snacking’ mentality of mobile internet users means business must make a strong and meaningful first impression with how their website appears on a mobile device or the user will be gone.”

Mobile Embrace Limited (MBE) is Australia’s leading integrated mobile and digital communications company. The company enables businesses to embrace the mobile opportunity, to reach further than before, to engage existing customers and to find new customers via the mobile phone with highly interactive mobile solutions. Mobile Embrace makes it simple for its clients to integrate mobile into their business with fully integrated mobile messaging, publishing, and advertising platforms and services. Combined with mobile marketing, mobile application development and mCommerce technology and services, these proven and robust platforms support high volume, seamless mobile enablement and customer acquisition solutions for business.

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ASX Company News: UXC Wins Victorian Water IT Contract

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

UXC Limited (UXC) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a major contract with Victorian water business City West Water for the first phase of work in connection with the implementation and ongoing applications support for a large Oracle based solution. The project, if fully implemented, would be one of the largest contracts won by UXC. The project is designed to support the City West Water vision of being a truly sustainable water business and is a company-wide transformation program that will see the transition of City West Water’s business processes and systems to a new, common Oracle based systems platform. City West Water will be supported by the UXC Oracle business, Red Rock Consulting – Australia’s largest independent Oracle consulting and support organisation. The project, which is intended to span a number of years, will commence with a detailed enterprise design and implementation planning process. The solution proposed for City West Water is based on an Oracle technology stack which includes applications, database, integration middleware, hardware and operating system. The core Oracle applications will be scalable and part of the applications and technology roadmap for the long term.

UXC Managing Director, Cris Nicolli, commented “This is another very exciting win for UXC. It is especially pleasing to see Australian business having the confidence to work with and entrust large and complex projects to Australian IT companies such as UXC. This validates our view that more and more Australian clients are seeking the delivery of business critical transformations by local companies with strong local resources who demonstrate a solid understanding of both their industry and the Australian marketplace. Very few organisations in Asia Pacific have the breadth of Oracle skills like the UXC Red Rock Consulting business to deliver projects of this scope and complexity in the Australian marketplace.”

UXC Limited is an ASX listed Australian business solutions company, and one of the largest Australian owned ICT consultancy firms. UXC services medium to large entities in the private and public sectors across Australia and New Zealand. UXC provides ICT Solutions in Consulting, Business Applications and Infrastructure that support our customers to design, implement & enhance, and operate & manage their ICT requirements. UXC strives to be the leading Australasian IT Services and Solutions Company, delivering value, innovation and responsive business outcomes with excellent people. Red Rock Consulting (Red Rock) is a wholly owned subsidiary of UXC Limited and is the largest independent provider of Oracle consulting and managed services in Australia and New Zealand. Established in 1998, Red Rock provides a complete service continuum around the Oracle stack, including Applications (E-Business Suite, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft & Demantra), Fusion Middleware, ECM, BI and Database from sales, strategy and design, to implementation, project management, licensing, upgrades and managed services.

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ASX Company News: Stratatel Secures South African contract

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Leading Australian software and services company, Stratatel  Limited  (STE)  announces  a  joint  venture  with  Messrs  Allen  Hartley  and  Jeremy  Davidson  of  Webhouse  International.  The Joint  Venture  has  signed  an  exclusive  3 year  contract  with  a  South  African  Telco  for  the  provision  of Stratatel’s proprietary FleetManager® bill reporting software and support services to its mobile and  fixed line business and corporate customers in South Africa.

Commenting  on  the  deal,  Stratatel  CEO  Mr  Matt  Parry  said  “this  contract  once  again  validates the quality of Stratatel’s FleetManager system as well as the support services capability of our partners Webhouse.”The Australian joint venture entity, Webhouse Software Pty Ltd, will be owned 50% each by Stratatel and Webhouse Software Solutions.  The Joint Venture is a party to the contract for the provision of  FleetManager® bill reporting software and South African based hosting and support services to the Telco’s customers in South Africa.  The local South African support will be provided through the local South  African  Webhouse  infrastructure.    Under  the  terms  of  the  Contract,  there  is  an  agreed minimum number of “units” (mobiles and fixed lines) to be added to the FleetManager® system over the period.

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ASX Company News: Photon Group Sells Retail Insight

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Photon Group Limited (PGA) announced the sale of a business unit of Retail Insight Limited which provides point-of-sale data services to UK suppliers. The unit was sold to Retail Solutions Inc, for total consideration of US$11 million. Retail Insight’s UK-based business serving global retailers and providing global CPG strategic planning and consultancy solutions will remain part of the Photon Group.

Jeremy Philips, CEO of Photon Group said: “This sale is consistent with our strategy over the past year. Photon remains highly pragmatic and will continue to explore opportunities to create value and further reduce debt.”  The entire Retail Insight business represented 2.5% of Photon’s net revenue in FY2011. The unit being sold accounted for almost half of Retail Insight’s net revenues in FY2011. The business units Retail Insight are retaining generated net revenue growth of 87% in

FY2011, while the business unit sold was flat. The proceeds from the asset sale (net of transaction costs, taxes and US$1 million held in escrow for warranties) will be applied to debt repayment. Photon’s debt balance at the end of September 2011 is expected to be $120 million. A further $13 million of capped cash deferred consideration payments are expected to be paid over the next 12 months. The divestment is expected to crystalise a non-cash loss on sale of $8 million – $10 million which will be recognised in the first half of FY2012.

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