IBM integrates ATLAS RFID Asset Tracking
System with Track™ software
Houston, Texas — February 2007

Management Controls, Inc., creator of market-leading Track™ business process automation software and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) have announced the integration of IBM’s ATLAS RFID Asset Tracking System with Track software.

IBM’s Asset Tracking Locating and Awareness System (ATLAS) uses active RFID tags embedded in customized identification badges. The same technology is used on vehicles to pinpoint their whereabouts at all times. A network of receivers throughout the site picks up the unique signal transmitted by each tag, and the solution calculates the exact location of the tag at that moment. In this way, a company’s safety team can identify the exact location of each person wearing a specially tagged badge. If a disaster takes place, safety personnel can quickly see who is in the affected area, who evacuated, who may still be there and what their last known location was.

IBM’s Radio Frequency Identification Asset and Personnel Tracking system has been integrated with Track to provide a compelling business case for both safety and cost control. Track uses ATLAS data to calculate contractor labor and equipment time in a variety of locations, thereby providing real-time, accurate cost tracking.

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About Management Controls, Inc. – Track™ software, created by Management Controls, Inc., automates the business processes of service-based contracts – from project time-keeping through invoicing – and delivers actionable information that clients and contractors require to complete projects on-time and on-budget. This market-leading software accurately validates, calculates and compiles the hours and costs of contracted work, delivering project status on a shift basis. Using this real-time information, owners and contractors work collaboratively to manage projects more effectively – for their mutual and individual benefit. For more information, go to www.tracksoftware.net.

About IBM – IBM is the world's largest information technology company. IBM and Management Controls together provide Contractor Management Solutions that are designed to quickly deliver business value, while sustaining results. Management Controls and IBM jointly provide consulting, services and solution delivery. Track is integrated to IBM's ATLAS solution thereby combining real-time asset and personnel tracking and time capture.

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