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19 February 2004 - US power producer Southern Company, has chosen McLaren Enterprise Engineer software to consolidate the management of its engineering drawings, documents and transmittals within its Transmission Substation and Lines Engineering Groups.
Southern Company, one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States with 39 000 MW of generating capacity, will use McLaren Enterprise Engineer and Drawing Manager software to achieve its goal of consolidating its document management systems onto a single platform and user-interface with centralized storage. The new system will facilitate the on-going management of almost two million documents and drawings for 1600 end-users, as well as controlling and automating the business processes that use this content.
Commenting on the contract, Joe Harvey, IT project manager at Southern Company, said, "We are currently maintaining multiple document management systems and processes across the Transmission Business Unit and have the need to consolidate those systems onto one platform. With research it became clear that McLaren offered the best solution, as it was able to address over 90 per cent of our engineering document management requirements out-of-the-box. In addition, it will also allow us to support business process changes through user configuration, which makes initial deployment faster and ongoing change easier."
"We are very pleased to add Southern Company as a client, as it signifies another major success for us in the US utility market. This deal reflects a growing trend in the marketplace, with organizations looking to applications to achieve efficiencies in the management of engineering content across the enterprise, but at a business process level. "added Paul Muir, CEO, McLaren.
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