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THE CITY OF CAPE CORAL ENABLES LEANER GOVERNMENT WITH AMX AND JD EDWARDS.

, — March 06, 2009

AMX International is excited to announce that the City of Cape Coral, Florida, has selected Oracle’s JD Edwards (JDE) to replace its legacy ERP, CIS, and EAM applications.

Cape Coral is one of the nation’s first master-planned communities. It is the third largest city (by land area) in Florida, encompassing 120 square miles, and the most populated city in Southwest Florida. Principally, the City is a residential, recreational, and vacation community, but due to its strategic location midway between Tampa and Miami, Cape Coral serves a major distribution role between the two cities. It has emerged as a secondary market for manufacturers who need to distribute goods throughout other parts of Florida, the southeastern United States and the world.

In January of 2008, Cape Coral solicited bids from vendors to replace the city’s Financial ERP, CIS and EAM applications, as their aging legacy systems were no longer able to keep up with the needs of the city. This came on the heels of investing in an intensive evaluation of the city’s operations and infrastructure by an outside team of management consultants. Based on the outcome of this process, the decision was made to only consider systems with modern capabilities that could fulfill the city’s needs in a “vanilla out of the box” format. “It is important to implement best business practices around the system as opposed to designing the system around existing practices. This is the only way efficiencies can be obtained,” commented Mark Mason, Financial Services Director for the City. After an intensive, eight month evaluation process, the City of Cape Coral selected Oracle JD Edwards from AMX to meet the expanded requirements of the city.

One major benefit to the city’s selection of JD Edwards was AMX’s utility billing and CIS module, which is now completely embedded in the JD Edwards solution. This means that utilities have one source of truth for all financial, work and asset information. AMX’s utility billing module for JDE creates records directly in JDE Accounts Receivable. Assets, such as meters, are managed in JDE Fixed Assets. Customer Service Orders are managed in JDE Work Orders. This greatly improves reconciliation and dramatically reduces period close processes. This is a key differentiator between AMX and the competition, who still rely on multiple applications and costly integrations to keep systems communicating and in sync. The flexibility of the AMX billing solution also allows convergence billing for other receivables within the city. The city’s customer billing services division currently serves and bills 53,000 customers.

Since the process to implement the solution footprint began in January, AMX and Cape Coral are excited to move together through this process. “It has been a great experience working with the City through the selection process; we gained a much deeper understanding of what the City is striving to accomplish in their lean processing initiatives. Cape Coral is visionary in their mandate to implement a vanilla, completely integrated solution, focusing their energy on providing more services to their constituents with less. We look forward to a successful and long-lasting partnership with the City,” said Scott Sears, Vice President of Sales at AMX International.

About AMX International:
Founded in 1989, AMX International is a leader in providing complete enterprise solutions that fit over 800 Oracle JD Edwards’ customers worldwide. Customers turn to AMX for the company's complete solutions that integrate the industry's best vendor applications with highly cost effective implementation consulting services, project management, complementary software products and custom development. AMX is an Oracle Certified Advantage Partner and is known for their expertise in Oracle technologies and applications with core practice areas in JD Edwards, Siebel, and Enterprise Utility Management (EUM).

AMX’s Utility practice provides the only complete Enterprise Utility Management (EUM) Solution for today’s intelligent utility consisting of ERP, CIS, EAM, GIS, Mobile Workforce, Outage Management, Cashiering, Customer Self-Service E-Billing, Business Intelligence, Contact Center/IVR, and much more.

For additional information about AMX International, call 208.523.3671, visit the company's web site at www.amxinc.com or e-mail at amxinfo@amxinc.com.