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WellPoint Systems is pleased to announce the recent launch of its Enterprise Asset Management solution.  Powered by Microsoft Dynamics AX, DAXEAM is an enterprise asset maintenance solution that manages the complete asset life cycle. DAXEAM is fully integrated with Dynamics AX, providing equipment and asset maintenance to AX customers in asset intensive industries.

DAXEAM is designed and built from the ground up as a true ‘enterprise’ maintenance solution for Dynamics AX. DAXEAM takes advantage of the power of Dynamics AX providing a single, seamless environment for users and eliminating costly and inefficient integrations. DAXEAM works with Dynamics AX – not against it – thereby maximizing a company’s ability to affect true enterprise-wide efficiencies. As a native Dynamics AX module, there is nothing extra to build, customize or maintain. From the first day, users will be working in a single, familiar Dynamics AX environment.

“DAXEAM is the best example of how an integrated, AX based, Enterprise Asset Management solution can deliver value to our end customers in asset intensive industries, said Martin Wildsmith, Business Development Director at Eclipse – a Dynamics AX Partner of the Year Finalist.   

DAXEAM provides the user with a single point of data entry, single source of records for vendors, inventory, assets and more.  A unified environment between maintenance operations and the back office for security, logistics, workflow and reporting enables true ‘enterprise’ asset management.

As a native Dynamics AX module, DAXEAM uses familiar, standard AX navigation, therefore users are instantly comfortable in navigating and using DAXEAM. IT staff can support and maintain DAXEAM with little added overhead as DAXEAM is a native Dynamics AX module; even security profiles are common between DAXEAM and AX.

Most ‘standalone’ equipment maintenance solutions require costly and inherently complex integrations. Duplicate databases are required for important corporate data such as vendor files, purchase orders, inventory, receiving and matching. DAXEAM eliminates these costly, inherently risky integration points. DAXEAM shares vendors, purchasing, inventory and receiving with Dynamics AX. There are no multiple data entry points, no need to ‘synchronize’ files and no need to create costly data reconciliations between two systems. DAXEAM is a true ‘Enterprise’ asset maintenance solution.

DAXEAM exists to serve the following industries: Aerospace, Forestry, Public Sector, Forestry, Pulp, Paper, Food and Beverage, Plant Maintenance, Metals and Mining, Oil and Gas, Facilities Management, and Fleet Maintenance. 

Beginning this Saturday, April 24^th-27^th, DAXEAM will make its premiere appearance at the Microsoft 2010 Convergence Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the leading Microsoft Dynamics event, where anyone can experience the industry in action! DAXEAM will be showcased at Booth 1311, so come by to be introduced to the “AX Solution for Maintenance.”

Good news for the U.S. drilling industry. This week, the number of oil and gas drilling rigs has increased, according to data from oil-field services company Baker Hughes Inc. Even as gas prices have lowered recently, the number of gas rigs rose by 15 rigs since last week. Gas rigs in use peaked in September of 2008 at 1,606, but fell last year as the weak demand of the economy forced gas prices to lower by 29 percent. Despite this fact, drilling has been exponentially more active recently. Producers must continue to drill by a certain date, within two of three years of acquiring their lease.

“Natural gas for May delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange was recently up 9 cents, or 2.26%, at $4.075 a million British thermal units,” reports Dow Jones.

Social media is playing a larger role in the growth of all types of businesses, the expansion of their markets, and the depth of relationships with constituents. In 2008, the Gillbane Group created a report on how social media has established itself to be the link from “today’s experiences to tomorrow’s opportunities.”

Now that we have arrived in 2010, you can imagine how social media has taken off since 2008 and wonder why all businesses and individuals are not jumping on board. According to the Gillbane Group report, this expansion of social media outlets has enabled a new generation of information-sharing, new technologies such as blogs and networks, and relationship building. There is an ease of “use and simplicity” that has lead to fast adoption from all markets. Businesses and organizations are further utilizing these tactics in effort to connect to their partners internally and externally.

WellPoint has benefitted from the use of these media tactics, and continues to find ways to keep its constituents up to date on happenings within the industry and the company itself through weekly blogs, frequent Tweets, updating Facebook, and keeping LinkedIn discussions flowing.

As a company that strongly believes in the benefits of social media, WellPoint Systems encourages everyone to get connected with its networks:

· Blog: http://wellpointsystems.com/blog/

· LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1818854&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

· Twitter: http://twitter.com/wellpointsystem

· Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/WellPoint-Systems-IT-Department/275323446413?ref=nf

Get connected!

To read the Gillbane Group report, see http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/e0bec654-7d83-2b10-19a9-adcaeb9fb04d