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Gaz Metro Successfully Goes Live With Location
Based Services
May 29, 2007
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts, May 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ClickSoftware
Technologies Ltd. (NasdaqCM: CKSW), a leading provider of workforce and service optimization solutions, today announced that
Gaz Metro, one of Canada's largest natural gas distributors, has successfully gone live with their ClickLocate solution.
Gaz Metro chose ClickLocate predominantly for its capacity to optimize emergency response times.
Gaz Metro covers
the entire Quebec province; they oversee a very large territory that includes 9 different regional offices. With approximately
300 field technicians who work in different areas, (including new installations, preventive maintenance and meter management),
Gaz Metro also has an important part of its work in emergency coverage, which includes approximately 12,000 emergency calls
a year. As a regulated business, Gaz Metro has to respond to every single emergency call in less than 35 minutes. As such,
the Company chose ClickSoftware's location-based services solution to improve productivity and reduce operational costs.
The rollout of ClickLocate commenced on November 30, 2006 and was completed in late December 2006. To date, all 9
regional offices as well as the corporate office have gone live with the solution. Gaz Metro dispatchers are now using ClickLocate
to locate engineers in real-time close to emergencies (within the 35 minute regulated response time frame). The response from
dispatchers has been very positive throughout the roll-out phase, and they have been particularly appreciative of the excellent
response time and the reliability of the data displayed in the ClickLocate Wizard.
"We are delighted that
Gaz Metro has successfully deployed our location based services solution," said Hannan Carmeli, Chief Operating Officer,
ClickSoftware. "Adding ClickLocate to our ServiceOptimization Suite provides one more step in our development of the
real-time service enterprise. Our uniqueness relative to the competition is in enabling proactive, automatic, and optimized
decisions. It is not just about visualizing locations on a map, it is about acting on it in real time and this is exactly
what ClickLocate enables."
About ClickSoftware
ClickSoftware is the leading provider of mobile
workforce management and service optimization solutions that create business value for service operations through higher levels
of productivity, customer satisfaction and cost effectiveness. Combining educational, implementation and support services
with best practices and its industry-leading solutions, ClickSoftware drives service decision making across all levels of
the organization. From proactive customer demand forecasting and capacity planning to real-time decision making, incorporating
scheduling, mobility and location-based services, ClickSoftware helps service organizations get the most out of their resources.
With over 100 customers across a variety of industries and geographies, and strong partnerships with leading platform and
system integration partners - ClickSoftware is uniquely positioned to deliver superb business performance to any organization.
The company is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts and Israel, with offices in Europe, and Asia Pacific.
For
more information about ClickSoftware, please call +1-781-272-5903 or +1-888-438-3308, or visit http://www.clicksoftware.com/
. Gaz Metro Overview
With more than $2.9 billion of assets and more than 1,500 employees in Quebec, Gaz Metro is
a leading Quebec energy company and one of Canada's largest natural gas distributors. Gaz Metro serves about 167,000 customers
in Quebec through an underground pipeline network of almost 10,000 km.
Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, NNEEC,
Gaz Metro has been active in New England's energy industry since 1986 and has nearly 300 employees there. NNEEC includes
Vermont Gas Systems, the sole gas distributor in Vermont, and Green Mountain Power Corporation, the second largest electricity
distributor in that State.
Through subsidiaries, affiliates, companies subject to significant influence and partnerships,
Gaz Metro is active in natural gas transportation and storage as well as energy services and water and waste water systems
and fibre optic networks. Gaz Metro also participates in various development projects in the energy sector.
This
press release contains express or implied forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act
of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to,
those regarding growth in ClickSoftware's revenues and sales and partner networks. Such "forward-looking statements"
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause actual results or performance to be materially
different from those projected. ClickSoftware's achievement of these results may be affected by many factors, including
among others, the following risks: that ClickSoftware may fail to expand its activities in the market; and other risks associated
with ClickSoftware's business. For additional information regarding risks relating to ClickSoftware's business, see
ClickSoftware's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including ClickSoftware's annual report on Form
20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006, and subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ClickSoftware
does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements.
Source: EARTHtimes.org
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