East Sussex County Council

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OMG PLC

26 March 2013

 



26 March 2013

OMG plc

("OMG" or the "Group")

Yotta DCL Extends Partnership with East Sussex County Council

- Series of contracts to maximise value of highway network assets -

-East Sussex is a recent addition to Yotta's Horizon Software as a Service offering-

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, announces that its highways technology arm, Yotta DCL has secured a series of contracts with East Sussex County Council to help the Council manage its highway assets.

During 2013, Yotta DCL has successfully added East Sussex County Council to its asset management Software as a Service ("SaaS") Horizons product. The first stage of work involved a video survey of the 3500-km highway network with data extracted and delivered using Horizons. Following the video survey, the Council has now engaged Yotta DCL to provide strategic consultancy services and has also purchased additional Horizons software modules.

In addition, East Sussex has introduced Yotta DCL to its maintenance contractor in order to facilitate the development of a fully integrated asset management solution that will support the whole highways maintenance supply chain. This IT innovation will be a seamless interfacing of Horizons with Barium Live business-process management software, which like Horizons is a cloud delivered system.

Yotta DCL has provided highway surveying to East Sussex for many years. These additional awards won through competitive tendering highlight the value Yotta DCL can offer through its Horizons SaaS product and consultancy services, particularly in the area of strategic advice.  We are also pleased to be working with the Council's contractor to develop a cutting edge asset management and supply chain solution. By combining asset inventory video surveys with its Horizons product, Yotta DCL is able to deliver the asset data, provide analysis, develop maintenance schemes and select appropriate treatments and benefits that no other company currently provides.

Commenting on the Partnership, Chris Dyer, Highway Asset Manager, East Sussex County Council said:

"Yotta DCL is a trusted partner and our relationship provides many benefits to East Sussex that extends well beyond surveying and data extraction. Yotta DCL is assisting us strategically, helping us to look at our network holistically to develop asset management schemes that are cost effective and deliver real value in maintaining our highways. Yotta DCL's skills and knowledge as well as its application of cutting edge technology such as Horizons, complement our own capabilities perfectly and aid us in making the best decisions based on sound engineering principles."

Commenting on the new contracts, Nick Bolton, CEO of OMG, said:

"We welcome this opportunity to work more strategically with the Council to help maximise the value of its network and enable it to gain greater intelligence on the condition of its assets. East Sussex County Council is very forward looking in its approach to highways management and our Partnership demonstrates that Yotta DCL has much more to offer highways authorities than just surveying. This contract also vindicates the value of our Horizons SaaS offering which continues to gain traction."

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For further information please contact:

OMG plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, CEO
David Deacon, CFO
FTI Consulting	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton / Charles Palmer / Jessica Liebmann
N+1 Singer (NOMAD to OMG)	[phone]
Shaun Dobson / Jenny Wyllie

About OMG

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry),sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through four operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, Yotta, our highways surveying business and OMG Life our new consumer subsidiary.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, The Imaginarium, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In highways, clients include East Sussex, Lancashire, Highways Agency, Transport for London, Cheshire East and West as well as many others.

For more information about OMG, visit www.omgplc.com.

About Yotta DCL

Yotta DCL is a pioneering highway's technology and surveying company based in Leamington Spa, UK. The Company develops innovative services and technologies to help authorities manage highway assets, improving quality, efficiency and productivity.

Yotta DCL has a 15 year track record in providing highway's surveying services to authorities in the UK.  These services include visual inspections, SCANNER road surface condition surveys and asset inventory surveys. Yotta DCL also develops hardware and software and has recently announced Horizons, an innovative web based software platform that seamlessly combines GIS, Pavement Management and Asset Management.

Yotta DCL provides consultancy services, offering extensive expertise in the management of highways with a bespoke service tailored to provide exactly the help that highways authorities require.

Customers include the Welsh Assembly Government, Highways Agency, Tyne and Tees Consortium, Cheshire East and West, Chester Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Hampshire County Council, London Borough of Hounslow and East Sussex County Council to name a few.

Yotta DCL is part of OMG plc; founded in 1984, a successful global technology company listed on the London Stock Exchange. OMG is one of the world's leading suppliers of image understanding products and services; this innovative technology is applied by Yotta DCL to highways surveying.

For more information about Yotta DCL, visit www.yottadcl.com.

 

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