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UK Launch of @Road GeoManager Marks an Important Milestone in @Road’s Efforts
to Expand Internationally
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (September 12, 2006) -- @Road, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDI), a leading
provider of next-generation solutions for Mobile Resource Management (MRM), today
announced the general availability in the UK of its flagship @Road® GeoManagerSM
MRM solution for field force management. @Road made the announcement at the largest
wireless data event in the industry, CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2006,
being held September 12-14 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. @Road is showcasing
GeoManager and other innovative MRM solutions during CTIA at booth #818. “This
is a proud moment for us,” said Leo Jolicoeur, @Road chief marketing officer.
“The launch of GeoManager in the UK ushers in a new era of on-demand location-intelligent
functionality for UK businesses wanting to achieve field service delivery excellence,
drive-down fuel and other operating costs, and increase productivity. This announcement
also marks an extension of our UK presence and crucial milestone in our efforts
to expand internationally.”
@Road GeoManager, already a leading on-demand field force management solution
in the U.S. and Asia Pacific with more than 150,000 subscribers, is designed to
help businesses streamline field service delivery operations while increasing
mobile workforce productivity and driving-up customer service. GeoManager provides
GPS-based location-relevant visibility into the daily activities of mobile workers
and their work - from actual vehicle routes, starts and stops, to customizable
maps showing mobile worker location relative to important landmarks like customer
locations or work yards. @Road GeoManager also allows businesses to upload customer
and/or trip information into a routing engine to generate on-demand, actionable
reports such as optimized routes and drive-time, fuel economy, city ordinance
compliance and much more.
“With GeoManager, UK businesses can now have access to a MRM solution that can
help them address such important issues as employee compliance, high fuel and
other operating costs, and the requirements their customers have for improved
service delivery,” Jolicoeur said. “And since GeoManager is offered on-demand,
UK businesses can deploy the MRM solution on tight deadlines with reduced implementation
cost. GeoManager is also designed to be suitable for small- and medium-sized businesses
and scalable large enterprises with complex MRM requirements.”
In addition to GeoManager now being offered in the UK, @Road also offers TaskforceTM,
a licensed MRM solution for field service management. With a successful track
record of helping such leading UK businesses as British Telecom, British Gas,
and ntl:Telewest, Taskforce is designed to automate field service delivery processes
from appointing, scheduling and dispatching to capacity planning. Taskforce goes
beyond human decision-making capabilities, coping with the complexity and changeability
of today's field service delivery environment to enable businesses to achieve
a more predictable, reliable and repeatable customer experience from commitment
to service fulfillment.
The underlying technology in Taskforce makes use of artificial-intelligence algorithms
designed to coordinate people, skills, resources and inventory, as it continually
seeks to optimize the field service delivery solution at a given time. Because
Taskforce is automated and intelligent, it can assist a single operations manager
to handle a number of complex service delivery needs and requirements in an unpredictable
field service environment.
Rounding out @Road’s family of comprehensive MRM solutions are solutions for
field asset management incorporating vehicle diagnostic/prognostic and sensor
technologies for driver safety, inventory management and optimized vehicle performance
and maintenance.
About @Road
@Road, Inc. is a leading global provider of solutions designed to automate the
management of mobile resources and to optimize the service delivery process for
customers across a variety of industries. @Road delivers Mobile Resource Management
solutions in three key areas: Field Force Management, Field Service Management
and Field Asset Management. By providing real-time Mobile Resource Management
infrastructure integrating wireless communications, location-based technologies, transaction processing and the
Internet, @Road solutions are designed to provide a secure, scalable, upgradeable,
enterprise-class platform, and are offered in on-demand software delivery, on-premise
or hybrid environments that can seamlessly connect mobile workers in the field
to real-time corporate data. @Road is headquartered in Fremont, Calif., and has
a global presence with offices in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information
on @Road solutions, visit www.road.com. For @Road UK sales information, contact
@Road, Ltd. (EMEA) at +44 (0) 1473-696-300. For @Road U.S. sales information,
contact @Road, Inc. at 1-877-7AtRoad (1-877-728-7623).
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Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed
in this news release are forward-looking statements involving risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking
statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited
to the ability of @Road to successfully sell its solutions to businesses in the
UK; the ability of any such businesses to successfully deploy @Road’s solutions;
the ability of @Road’s solutions to help UK customers improve the quality of their
field services, decrease fuel and other operating costs and increase employee
productivity; the ability of @Road to deploy its solutions to customers in the
UK on short deadlines or at reduced implementation costs; and general economic
and political conditions. Further information regarding risk factors is included
in the @Road Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2006,
the @Road Annual Report on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2005 and
in @Road’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road does
not undertake any obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained
in this press release.
@Road and the @Road logo, GeoManager and Taskforce are trademarks or registered
trademarks or service marks of @Road, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks
or service marks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
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