City of Fort Wayne, Indiana Selects Hansen 8 To Help Manage Enterprise Municipal Assets

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Shelie White
P: (916) 921-0883, ext. 3145
E: shellie.white@hansen.com



City of Fort Wayne, Indiana
Graham Richard, Mayor


State of Indiana County Map

Population
Area in Square Miles
Number of City Employees
Miles of Sewer and Storm
Miles of Water
Miles of Streets
Number of Street Signs
Water Treatment Plant (MGD)
Wastewater Treatment Plant (MGD)

220,486
77
1,858
1,448
915
839
27,966
72
60


Financials Highlights (Millions)

 

Total Revenues
Capital Assets, net of depreciation

$270.5
$977.5


Source: City of Fort Wayne, Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, December 31, 2004

RANCHO CORDOVA, California - October 11, 2005 - Hansen Information Technologies (Hansen®) today announced that it was selected to provide a comprehensive enterprise asset management solution for the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana. As part of its scope of work, Hansen will provide its Hansen 8 suite of citizen-centric asset management solutions, including Hansen's Work Order, Inventory, Customer Relationship Management, Water, Sewer, Storm, and Street modules, including integration to the City's Intergraph Geographic Information System (GIS).

"The City has used asset management for years, but the existing hardware platform has become obsolete," said James Haley, Fort Wayne's Associate Director of Utilities. "Hansen 8 will allow the City to take advantage of advances in asset management technology, and facilitate business process improvement. It can position our agency to maintain service levels while our population grows, and allow us to publish key performance indicators in real time."

"Back in the 1980s, Fort Wayne had developed a custom mainframe-application working with a firm in Boston named Peer Systems," said Chuck Hansen, Chairman and CEO. "We were just introducing our first version of Hansen, written for MS-DOS using COBOL, and we had missed hearing about the opportunity. To say that I've been waiting for a chance to work with the City of Fort Wayne is an understatement. With nearly a billion dollars in capital assets, Fort Wayne represents a tremendous win for us."

About the City of Fort Wayne
The City of Fort Wayne is the second largest city in the state of Indiana and the largest city in Allen County. Fort Wayne is unique in having economic ties to multiple states with a number of major metropolitan areas located within 2-3 hours of the city, including Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Growing through annexation of its surrounding communities, and with the Aboite area to be annexed in 2006 as well as other adjacent communities, Fort Wayne expects its population to exceed 250,000 in 2006. For more information, visit www.cityoffortwayne.org/.

About Hansen
Hansen is the world's leading provider of intelligent, adaptive, and pervasive solutions that help manage the operations of government. Hansen's integrated family of browser-based solutions include Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Building Permit, Business Licensing, Business Intelligence, Citizen Relationship Management (CRM), Code Enforcement, Financials, GIS, HR & Payroll, Property Tax, Timesheet Reporting, Transportation, Utility Billing, and Web Portal applications. Major customers include 15 of the 25 largest city and county governments in the United States. Headquartered in Rancho Cordova, California, the company is a privately-held corporation employing over 250 people with offices in Auckland, London, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney, and Toronto. For more information, visit www.hansen.com