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Ameren Joins the Roster of Energy-Related Organizations Reaping the Benefits of Citadon CW™
San Francisco - July 22, 2004 - Citadon, the leader in Web-based collaboration, document management and business process management solutions for project-oriented organizations, today announced a multi-year, enterprise-wide agreement with St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation. "We envision the Citadon CW™ platform as a bridge among and between all of our capital project participants. We also look forward to the addition of Citadon Velocity to help further integrate our existing project-related tools and applications," said Frederick Pope, General Manager of Generation & Technical Services at Ameren.
As part of an extensive value-based initiative, a team comprised of members of several Ameren Corporation divisions including AmerenUE, AmerenEnergy Generating and Electric Energy, Inc. was assembled to evaluate vendor-provided project management and process alternatives. The four-month selection process involved an in-depth comparison of package software vendors and Application Service Providers (ASP's) before identifying Citadon CW™ with the optional Velocity toolkit as offering the highest degree of fit to organizational needs.
"Citadon's ability to provide a true end-to-end solution was the primary decision driver in selecting the CW™ platform," said Richard Smith, Manager of Ameren AEG Generating. "Secondly, the customizable business process and workflow engine functionality of Citadon BPD far surpassed anything else in the market. And finally, the breadth of industry experience of the Citadon professional services team, coupled with the very broad Citadon installed base, gave us the confidence we needed to move forward with CW™."
About Ameren Corporation
With assets of $14.6 billion, St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) provides energy services to 2.2 million customers in Missouri and Illinois. Approximately 95 percent of the company's $3 billion revenues flow from electric sales, with the remainder from sales of natural gas. Formerly Union Electric Company and CIPSCO Incorporated, Ameren prides itself on a long, successful tradition of financial strength, cost containment, low rates and continuous customer service improvements, as well as nine decades of uninterrupted cash dividend payments to stockholders.
About Citadon
Citadon is an award-winning provider of Web-based collaboration and Business Process Management solutions for project-oriented organizations. Citadon provides an on demand solution that enables customers and their constituents to seamlessly share and manage a wide variety of document types, automate and propagate complex business processes, collaborate and communicate without barriers while providing a mechanism for capturing and leveraging knowledge. Since Citadon hosts these applications, users can immediately begin to take advantage of software that can reduce both financial and legal risk, improve profitability, enforce accountability and add predictability to global projects.
More than 60,000 subscribers in over 60 countries on projects with a market value in excess of $130 billion currently access Citadon hosted applications. Current Citadon customers include Shell Oil Products, the Bechtel Group, GE, The Chicago Transit Authority, GM, Alcoa, ICA Fluor, Transport for London, Parsons Iraq Joint Venture and Novo Nordisk Engineering. For more information, please visit: www.citadon.com.
Media Contacts:
Citadon, San Francisco
Dan Pepper - 415-216-2303
dpepper@citadon.com
Smith Public Relations, Los Angeles
Caroline Somphone - 310-788-0456
caroline@smith-pr.com
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