Alliance Extends ViryaNet's Reach into Spain, Portugal, and Latin America
Southborough, Mass. - November 13, 2001 -ViryaNet (NASDAQ: VRYA), a leading provider of solutions for wireless field service automation, today announced that Telvent Interactiva has become a value added reseller (VAR) of ViryaNet solutions. Telvent Interactiva will offer ViryaNet's solutions to the utilities marketplace in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Telvent Interactiva is a wholly owned subsidiary of Abengoa, and part of its Information Technology group,
Telvent (
www.telvent.com).
"The agreement with ViryaNet enables Telvent Interactiva to provide service organizations in the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America with powerful tools that include workforce management, supply chain, contracts, and logistics," said Adolfo Borrero, CEO, Telvent Interactiva. "ViryaNet's offerings are a logical complement to the technology and services that Telvent Interactiva supplies."
"ViryaNet is dedicated to providing its customers around the world with quality solutions and the highest standards for integration, installation, and support," said Win Burke, president and CEO, ViryaNet. "Through alliances with leading companies like Telvent Interactiva, we can extend our reach to customers in new geographic locations, and enhance our infrastructure and ability to support those customers."
About Telvent Interactiva
Telvent Interactiva, a subsidiary of Abengoa, focuses on IP architectures, middleware, and serves as an Application Service Provider (ASP). The company commenced operations in 2000 with the creation of three competency centers in different technological areas:
-The Java Business Center for Java technology transfer in cooperation with Sun Microsystems
-The Wireless Center for the development of systems based on WAPS, GPRS, and UMTS technologies in cooperation with Ericsson
-A group for the development of ASP solutions and Internet coordination in cooperation with Energyworkspace, a company in which Telvent Factory Holding AG holds an ownership interest.
Telvent client list includes Pemex (Mexico), Endesa, Union Fenosa, Repsol-YPF, Gas Natural, Iberdrola and Light (Brazil).
About ViryaNet
ViryaNet is a provider of solutions for wireless field service automation.
The award-winning ViryaNet Service Hub combines the power of the Internet, the freedom of wireless technologies, and the resources of ViryaNet's deep service expertise to help companies improve workforce scheduling, dispatching, and activity reporting; customer contract and entitlement automation; and logistics and repairs management.
Customers in the telecommunications, manufacturing, utilities, third-party maintenance, and other industries use ViryaNet Service Hub to transition complex service business processes into a manageable, scalable Internet operation, with the goal of increasing service revenues, decreasing service costs, and maximizing customer satisfaction.
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