Yotta's Horizons - New SaaS Software Offering

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OMG PLC

11 April 2011

 



11 April 2011

OMG plc

Product Launch

Yotta DCL Releases Horizons - New SaaS Software Offering

SaaS web-based tool enables informed, simpler decision-making for highways clients

OMG plc, (LSE: OMG) ("OMG" or the "Group"), the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, is pleased to announce that its Yotta division, the leading highways surveyor, has today unveiled the launch of its new SaaS product platform: Horizons.  This new platform will enable a Local Authority to visualise, manage and optimise the highway survey data it collects and subsequently check on the status of every road under its management through one interface.

Yotta's services enable Local Authorities to be more cost effective in their long term highway maintenance plans, thereby reducing the authority's overall operational costs whilst at the same time enhancing the quality, speed and accuracy with which repairs can be executed. The new Horizons platform will now allow those users to manage multiple sets of data, make cost predictions, plan and model various road maintenance scenarios, build schemes and ultimately make better, more informed decisions.   

Utilising Google Maps for its user interface, Horizons offers users an immediately familiar and simple to use functionality.  It enables easy navigation and pulls data and reports together quickly and easily. Currently, network data might be held in many disparate locations and forms but, when using Horizons, data can be imported from any source so that decisions based upon all relevant and available information can be made.

Commenting on the launch of Horizons, Nick Bolton, OMG Chief Executive Officer said:

"We are delighted to launch this new offering.  We believe it provides a new, improved way for Local Authorities to manage their roads at a time when cost-efficiency is a major concern, but road repairs and reviews still need to take place.  Potholes and road quality in general are 'hot' news topics right now and Horizons will help councils to plan maintenance schemes that can fix these issues faster, more effectively and in those areas where action needs to be taken first."

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For further information please contact:

OMG plc	[phone]
Nick Bolton, Group CEO David Deacon, Group CFO Hayley Roberts, Press Contact
Financial Dynamics	[phone]
Matt Dixon / Emma Appleton / Charles Palmer
Evolution Securities (NOMAD to OMG)	[phone]
Jeremy Ellis / Chris Clarke

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 assessing the value of properties; 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 three operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, and Yotta, our highways and property surveying business.

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, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In surveying clients include:Miami-Dade county, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.co.uk or www.yottamvs.com.

About Yotta DCL

Yotta DCL is at the forefront of highway technology and services. The company's surveyors cover hundreds of miles of roads collecting all types of data every day to help transform highway surveys into solutions with real benefits. Its broad experience working with local authorities enables Yotta DCL to provide a range of survey solutions for councils to efficiently manage and maintain their highway assets.

Surveys from Yotta DCL include Coarse Visual Inspections (CVI), Detailed Visual Inspections (DVI), machine scanning using its high tech Scanner vehicles and asset inventory surveys. It also develops and supports a wide range of software such as MARCHpms the industry renowned and respected pavement management system, Nano the user friendly asset management software and NotiVia, its new data capture tool.

Yotta DCL's consultancy services team offers bespoke and scheduled training seminars, UKpms expertise and data analysis to customers of all pavement management systems. Customers include the Welsh Assembly Government, Southampton City Council, Nottingham City Council, Hampshire County council and Northumberland City Council.

Yotta DCL is part of the OMG plc group of companies. Founded in 1984, OMG is a successful British technology company and is listed on the London Stock Exchange. OMG is one of the world's leading suppliers of image understanding systems, with customers all over the world.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omg3d.com, www.vicon.com, www.vicon.com/boujou, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.com, or www.yottamvs.com. 

 

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