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| News - Terrington Sign New Marketing Agreement with Belgravium |
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 TERRINGTON Data Management, specialists in providing Data Acquisition and Mobile Computing applications, today announced that it had recently signed a partnership agreement with Belgravium, a manufacturer of rugged mobile computing devices. Terrington will offer Belgravium products as a platform for its mobile computing software. As Mobile Computing becomes an efficient and effective enabler for business processes this partnership will yield tangible cost/operation benefits to customers with mobile workforce requirements.
Originally founded to develop equipment calibration software for the oil and gas industry, Terrington's data capture expertise soon enabled them to utilise the best of proven technology to provide remote data collection, whatever the environment. |
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| "Mobile Computing solutions are only as effective as the technology on which they are founded, both software and hardware," says Mark Williams, managing director of Terrington Data Management. "Getting the right information in the right place at the right time in a mobile environment requires tight integration at all levels of the information chain. We view our partnership with Belgravium as a key component within that integration. |
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| Mike Turner, marketing manager for Belgravium, adds, "Belgravium have a long-established track record of partnering with best-of-breed software vendors and we see Terrington as a company who know what it takes to deliver quality solutions.". |
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| Williams concludes "Our approach gives our clients the edge in today's highly competitive market. It ensures that they maximise their business opportunities within their resource constraints. Modern technologies such as wireless networks, satellite phones and the Internet give us global access to information instantly and we can harness that technology to provide the optimum solution for client's data collection requirements. At Terrington we leverage our existing software toolset to meet their exact needs in a very cost effective manner. Belgravium are a natural partner where the operating environment requires a mobile device that can perform reliably in harsh conditions." |
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| The newly-formed partnership has already yielded a significant new customer. UPM is one of the world's leading forest products companies. The company's businesses focus on magazine papers, newsprint, fine and speciality papers, converting materials and wood products. The company has production in 16 countries and an extensive sales network comprising over 170 sales and distribution companies. UPM's turnover in 2004 was close to EUR 10 billion and the group employs approximately 33,400 people. |
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| The Terrington-Belgravium solution will be employed in UPM's Shotton Paper Mill facility. UPM Shotton, in the district of Deeside, Flintshire in north-eastern Wales, employs 460 personnel focused on the production of 'Standard News' paper type. The facility has the capacity to produce 500,000 tonnes of paper annually. UPM are utilising Terrington's TransForm software combined with Belgravium's Atlanta 8000 series mobile computer for the routine inspection of plant and equipment. |
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