Spescom Partners With MRO Software to Address the Energy and Utility Markets in the US and Europe New Alliance Provides 'Best-in-Class' Solution to Plant Owners / Operators SAN DIEGO, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spescom Software Inc (OTC:SPCO) (BULLETIN BOARD: SPCO) , a leading provider of enterprise content and configuration management solutions today announced that it has entered into a marketing alliance with MRO Software, the world's leading provider of Strategic Asset Management solutions. In terms of this alliance, Spescom Software and MRO Software will undertake joint marketing activities as well as recommend a joint solution that combines both companies' products and services into a complete solution for its customers and prospects. MRO Software is a global company based in Bedford, Mass., with approximately 900 employees, 10,000 customers and more than 260,000 end-users. It's flagship asset management solution, MAXIMO(R), optimizes performance, improves productivity and service levels and enables asset-related sourcing and procurement across the entire spectrum of strategic assets. MAXIMO allows customers to manage the complete lifecycle of their strategic assets including: planning, procurement, deployment, tracking, maintenance and retirement. "The combined eB/MAXIMO solution extends the asset management capabilities of MAXIMO by enabling the management of asset configuration and all associated documents and drawings throughout the life cycle of the assets," said Johan Arts, vice president of industry marketing, MRO Software. "It also provides a 'best-in-class' change and configuration management process that enables the impact of any proposed change to be assessed as well as ensuring that all approved document changes are fully implemented. This ensures conformance between the design basis of a plant, the physical configuration of the plant and all documents and drawings that relate to the plant." In terms of the agreement, the initial focus will be on customers in the energy and utility markets with a major emphasis on the nuclear sector. The nuclear sector in particular has embraced the need for effective configuration and change management as evidenced by new standards such as the ANSI/NIRMA CM1.0-2000 "Guidelines for the Configuration Management of Nuclear Facilities," the Standard Nuclear Performance Model (SNPM) standard AP-929 and the new DOE-STD-1073-2003 "DOE Standard Configuration Management." "We are very excited about the alliance with MRO Software," said Carl Mostert, Spescom Software's CEO. "We target the same markets and have many common customers. Many plant owners and operators have suffered in the past from the lack of accurate information about their plant, and we plan to deliver an approach that provides a strong return on investment. By working together with MRO, we can offer them an integrated solution that fully addresses their asset and information management needs. Driving down operational costs while ensuring regulatory compliance is one of the key objectives of the alliance." About Spescom Software Spescom Software (OTC:SPCO) (BULLETIN BOARD: SPCO) delivers information management solutions that capture, manage and control all enterprise content in context to the assets, products and processes that it relates to, resulting in improved customer satisfaction, productivity and safety. It achieves this through a tightly integrated suite of document, configuration and records management technologies, combined with a powerful workflow capability, that enables the identification of all critical enterprise information, the effective management of change and other business processes and the maintaining of records to ensure regulatory compliance. Key customers include Constellation Energy, Continental Express, AmerenUE, Cities of Las Vegas and Dayton, Lloyds Register, United Space Alliance, Entergy, Northeast Utilities, London Underground, Network Rail, and many others. About Spescom eB eB(R) is a registered trademark of Spescom Software Inc. eB comprises an extensive set of software components that together form the foundation for an extremely flexible and powerful information management platform. eB's components include: content/document management; requirements management; records management; item management; change management; configuration management and workflow. These components are tightly integrated with leading CAD, GIS, office and email applications to capture, store and view information. The full functionality of eB is available via a set of API's that enable the rapid definition and deployment of customer specific solutions and integration with other line-of-business applications including ERP, EAM, SCM and project management products. Except for historical information contained herein, the matters set forth in this release include forward-looking statements that are dependent on certain risks and uncertainties, including such factors, among others, as market acceptance, market demand, pricing, changing regulatory environment, the effect of the company's accounting policies, potential seasonality and other risk factors detailed in the company's SEC filings. For further information please contact: Carl Mostert, CEO, or John Low, CFO, both of Spescom Software Inc, +1-858-625-3000 DATASOURCE: Spescom Software Inc CONTACT: Carl Mostert, CEO, or John Low, CFO, both of Spescom Software Inc, +1-858-625-3000 Web site: http://www.spescomsoftware.com/

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