FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Korterra Announces Participation in 2002 Damage Prevention Convention
Minneapolis, MN – October 16th, 2002 – The KorTerra team announced today they will be participating in this year’s Damage Prevention Convention in San Diego, CA.
In addition to exhibiting in the vendor exposition, KorTerra will be showcasing one of their customers in a presentation titled “Mobile Mapping and Real-time Ticket Receiving Software: A Case Study”, on December 5th. The presentation will provide an overview of ticket receiving, workforce management and mapping technologies and detail an implementation of an integrated KorTerra mapping solution for a large southern electric company.
The case study presentation will show how integrating two cutting edge technologies (i.e. wireless workforce management and mapping), will help locators more accurately and effectively perform their front-line duties by providing them with accurate and current information and streamlining their work through the reduction of paper.
"Through real world examples and success stories, we will demonstrate how technology, available through KorTerra, helps line locating operations realize efficiencies and simplify their work processes,” said Chris Stendal, President, KorTerra division, “We are thrilled to be able to share with the attendees of the Damage Prevention Convention, examples of how we have helped our customers implement cutting edge technology to help them meet their business goals.”
The Damage Prevention Convention is the industry leading trade show for all companies who work in the Damage Prevention Industry. This year’s convention will include over 80 conference sessions and over 200 exhibits by manufacturers, engineering firms, software companies, and other entities involved in the placement, protection and maintenance of subsurface infrastructure.
About Damage Prevention
Conference
The annual Damage Prevention(tm) Conference and Exposition provides an
interactive forum to learn about and discuss current and emerging issues
that impact the design, installation, maintenance and protection of
buried cables and pipelines. The 5th annual DPC will be held December
4-6, 2002 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. For
information on attending or exhibiting, please call 800-827-8009 or
visit www.damageprevention.com.
The Damage Prevention(tm) Conference and Exposition is produced by
Cygnus Expositions, a division of Cygnus Business Media, a Commerce
Connect Media Company. It is sponsored by Underground Focus magazine and
hosted by Dig Alert of Southern California and Underground Services
Alert North of Northern California, Nevada and Hawaii.
About KorTerra, Inc.
Since 1990, KorTerra, Inc. has developed mobile computing and workforce
management solutions for the utility industry. They have worked with
major utilities, contract locators and municipalities to develop a
variety of Utility Workforce Management systems. The software
effectively manages on-time response, management reporting, positive
response, and keeps track of locating team performance in a real-time,
mobile and paperless environment. KorTerra also provides ASP services;
capabilities that allow KorTerra to host the software on their servers
with customer access to the application via the Internet. KorTerra
software interfaces with every One Call Center and is used by Utilities,
Municipalities and Contract Locators across North America. Today, over
20,000,000 tickets are managed by the KorTerra application annually. To
learn more about KorTerra and see what their customers are saying about
the KorTerra product suite, go to
www.korterra.com, or contact via telephone at 952.368.1911.
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For additional information contact:
Press Contact(s):
Chris Stendal, President
KorTerra, Inc.
18882 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Tel: 952.368.1911
Fax: 952.697.3141
Email: sales@korterra.com
