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Utility Partners Announces Planned Release of Work Resource
Planning (WRP) Version 6

TAMPA, FL – (Feb. 2, 2001) - Utility Partners, Inc. today announced a planned second quarter release of Version 6 of its Work Resource Planning (WRP) applications for the distribution enterprise. The latest version of the WRP Product Suite provides additional functionality never before available for the initiation and management of complex work. The new product suite's capabilities seamlessly integrate work, outage, and resource management, work order scheduling, mobile data automation and management, and data mining. The WRP Product Suite Version 6 includes the popular MobileUP, as well as WorkUP, TroubleUP, PlanUP, FlexUP, and AnalyzeUP.  Utility Partners is announcing the Version 6 release in advance of the February 4 – 7 DistribuTECH conference in San Diego, during which key features of the new product suite will be presented.  

WRP Version 6's new features enable clients to customize templates specific to their work types and facilities and perform complex work tasks involving multiple days, one or more dependent units of work, and specific components of individual facilities.  Tim Reed, Utility Partners' CEO, explains that WRP Version 6 "is the first truly integrated work, outage, resource, and mobile management suite available that recognizes no organizational boundaries.  We're proud to be the only company offering a technology solution that finally breaks down the resource and work barriers between departments." 

Bob Letzeisen, Utility Partners' Vice President of Sales, points out that the new product suite, which is modifiable by design, allows utilities to quickly respond to new regulatory requirements, executive directives, changes in union contracts, and customer expectations for services.  WorkUP, for example, "is not a technology looking for a problem," Letzeisen explains.  "It's an enabling data structure that provides a fluid transformation of one of the most critical cost centers inside of the utility."  For customers grappling with ever-changing compliance requirements, WorkUP's facilities database module lets users modify characteristics of the assets and automatically generate work based on a facility's frequency requirements.

Las Vegas-based Southwest Gas has beta-tested the new enhancements to the WRP suite.  Dudley Sondeno, Southwest Gas' Senior Vice President, Chief Knowledge and Technology Officer, reports that his company has "enjoyed great success using MobileUP for our customer work.  We're excited about deploying the new WRP solution, which will also handle our code compliance, scheduling and tracking."

Product information

Utility Partners' Work Resource Planning Product Suite provides the distribution enterprise with browser and client/server-based applications to initiate, manage, and complete work on the distribution network.  The suite's product line includes WorkUP, TroubleUP, PlanUp, FlexUP, AnalyzeUP, and MobileUP.

WorkUP
The modular, browser-based WorkUP system provides the ability to initiate, manage, and complete both simple and complex work.

TroubleUP
The client/server TroubleUP Intuitive and Automated Outage Management solutions work to provide complete integration to Dispatch and Work Management to improve system reliability and quality of supply.

PlanUP
PlanUP helps clients schedule work that can then be processed in MobileUP, printed, or sent to other work processing applications. Optional modules are also available for client appointment setting and recording training achievements.

MobileUP
This modular, client/server and browser-based mobile data system leads the industry in functionality and integration capability.  MobileUP accepts work from WorkUP, TroubleUP, PlanUP, or any other work generation system through its standard application interface.

FlexUP
FlexUP allows the user to create customizable templates for the work types and facilities throughout the WRP product line.

AnalyzeUP
AnalyzeUP is a sophisticated analysis tool that turns distribution-related data into manageable information that allows forecasting, standard and ad hoc reporting, and comparison analysis.  AnalyzeUP can help distribution enterprise users make intelligent business decisions by providing a non-static tool to create reports and analyze data quickly and easily.

ABOUT UTILITY PARTNERS, INC.

Utility Partners, Inc., headquartered in Tampa, Florida, provides software solutions exclusively for the gas, electric, and water utility industries, including mobile computing, work management, and gas management.  The company's customer list includes utilities throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada.  Currently, the MobileUP mobile computing solution is used by over 25 utility companies.  For more information, contact Michelle Bauer at (813) 282-8828, email , or visit the company's web site at www.utilitypartners.com.

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