Brisbane, Australia – June 15, 2010 – Oniqua Enterprise Analytics (www.oniqua.com), the leading provider of MRO analytics solutions for asset-intensive organizations, today announced a new benchmark in MRO optimization software with the release of Oniqua Analytics Solution (OAS) version 6.3. The latest version of OAS provides significant enhancements to the solution’s usability, scalability and overall effectiveness for MRO-specific operations.

Ralph Rio, Research Director, ARC Advisory Group, stated, “Asset-intensive companies in the process industries have significant MRO spend. Poor MRO management ripples through the business, creating maintenance and customer service problems. Also, their P&L statements and balance sheets suffer. Companies improve their operating and financial performance by optimizing MRO maintenance, inventory and procurement with the Oniqua Analytics Solution. Version 6.3 furthers this capability.”

Based largely on customer input from Oniqua collaboration initiatives with clients, including customer advisory forums and user group sessions, the newly-released version of OAS  delivers major enhancements across four major areas, including an enhanced user experience, expanded MRO-specific capabilities, greater scalability and improved enterprise-readiness:

• Enhanced User Experience
• Greater Progress Monitoring – work queues helps users monitor progress towards optimization objectives; measure percentage completion of prioritized work objectives each month against specified data sets
• Seamless User Experience – embedded browser improves user experience across Oniqua Workbench
• Faster, Simpler Reporting – “Moment of Need Reporting” within Oniqua Workbench, “Single-Click Reporting“ functionality and Web-based OAS components deliver faster, simpler reporting
• Single-Sign-On – provides for automatic authentication, based on network users
• MRO-specific Capabilities
• Automatic Reaction to Changes in Equipment Risk – on-going changes in equipment criticality directly (or conditionally) change item business impacts codes, which in turn change re-order policies every month
• Optimized Regional Safety Stock Capability – safety stock shared across close geographic regions in a more optimal manner, eliminating unnecessary duplicated safety stock and potentially reducing inventories by millions of dollars for clients
• Enhanced Demand Profiling – models and maintains step-changes in inventory demand; can easily be applied to items or groups of items, and updated as required;
• Automated Report Generation and Distribution – now provided as part of the Periodic Update process, automatically generates all periodic reports and distributes them in a variety of ways, such as by email
• Best Practice MRO Procurement prioritized work objectives with pre-configured Procurement Work Queues
• Maintenance Capability Enhancements – includes several additions to maintenance best practice configuration
• Greater Scalability
• Standard OAS Connectors for SAP and Ellipse® – made more scalable, supporting quick extract of many millions of transactions records
• Periodic Update – runs as a separate service and on a separate database; even on a separate server
• OAS Analytics Online Connectivity – redeveloped for improved, easier support of large number of users
• Improved Enterprise-Readiness
• Improved Deploy-ability and Maintainability – easier to apply patches and service packs via Administrator Toolbox utilities Database Upgrade Utility and Database Integrity Checker; Database Merge Utility reliably extends OAS instances to include data from new sites; allows users to “turn on” additional modules in a repeatable way
• Extended Platform Support – includes extended support for Microsoft SQL® 2008, Microsoft Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008, Internet Explorer® 8, SAP Business Objects Enterprise® 3.1
• Comprehensive, Configurable Audit Log Facility – covers system usage, key functions and data changes.

“A key value proposition for OAS has always been to significantly reduce costs and risk for clients while optimizing operational efficiencies, and to deliver it all in a very short period of time,” stated Chris Wright, Executive Vice President of Solutions, Oniqua. “Addressing nearly 200 product requests from customers, this latest version includes major enhancements in usability as well as many important capabilities that make benefits realization for customers faster and easier than ever before.”

OAS 6.3 is available immediately. For more information, contact Oniqua at +61 7 3369 5506 (APAC) or +1 303 256 8006 (Americas.), or visit www.oniqua.com.