July 25, 2007—Ventyx, provider of Service Delivery Management (SDM) solutions, has announced the newest version of its enterprise asset management (EAM) solution for asset-intensive industries. Release 6.0 of Asset Suite delivers key enhancements to its feature set for managing work and assets, safety and compliance, and the maintenance supply chain for clients in utility, communications, and other commercial field service organizations.
Asset Suite 6.0 features enhancements in the following key areas:
- Work Management
Enhances users’ ability to take credit for overlapping preventive maintenance routines, recalculate resources for model work orders based on actual results, and automate the completion of work orders; - Supply Chain Management
Improved security, extended lead times for parts staging, and additional tax considerations in invoice matching; - Library of Tailored Pages
A searchable, indexed library of more than 300 preconfigured XML pages provides a jumpstart for implementation and development of role-based views and business processes, adaptable to specific user, department, or organizational needs; - Web Service Catalog
The Foundation Architecture now includes a catalog of more than 100 Web services that allow clients to easily develop workflows, integrate to third-party solutions, and create system-to-system interfaces independent of underlying code; - Usability
Innovative features enhancing usability, including a highly intuitive interface with advanced navigation features such as tabs and grids, a rebranded context-sensitive online help and e-learning, and a toolkit available to facilitate tuning the online help and e-learning features to specific customer requirements; and - Internationalization
A new toolkit facilitates and automates localization.
In addition, a new release of the company’s services-oriented Foundation Architecture provides enhanced flexibility for easily tailoring of its features, and navigation to the unique needs of specific organizations and a more diverse set of users, notes Ventyx.
Asset Suite 6.0 is delivered with more than a dozen predefined workflows to guide users through focused processes such as creating work orders and material requests. Design techniques for the Asset Suite user interface incorporate human factors and industry best practices for an intuitive, visually compelling environment, says Ventyx.
Asset Suite 6.0 is available immediately from Ventyx and its certified reseller partners. For more information, contact your local sales representative or visit the Ventyx Web site.
