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Invensys Wins 2008 Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Award for Market Leadership in SCADA

SINGAPORE, May 15, 2008 - Invensys Process Systems (IPS), a global leader in automation, controls and process solutions, has been conferred the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Award for Market Leadership in SCADA* (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) for the year 2007.

Invensys Process Systems has gained the leading market share in the Indonesian SCADA market in 2006 through its product quality, excellent service structure and competitive pricing which are all important competitive advantages in the Indonesian market. Invensys is the market leader by a wide margin for SCADA in the Indonesian market with a market share of 40.0% leading by 20.0% over the next competitor in 2006. As a result, Frost & Sullivan presents Invensys Process Systems with the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in the SCADA Market in Indonesia.

"This is the 5th consecutive year Wonderware has received the Frost & Sullivan 'Product of the Year' Award in the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) category. Being selected for the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Award for Market Leadership in SCADA reinforces our dedication to developing software that's easy to use and upgrade. We remain committed to helping our customers achieve greater efficiency and operational excellence through enhanced features and functions of our suite of easy-to-use software products," said Goh Choong Keng, Wonderware Vice President for Asia Pacific.

"It is a significant achievement to be selected by Frost and Sullivan for this award," said Reuben Chuah, Managing Director for ASEAN, IPS. "Invensys emphasizes on enabling our customers to increase productivity, boost profitability and demonstrate measurable improvement in performance and we will continue to invest in more resources and manpower to better support our customers in Indonesia."

Strong local presence in Indonesia
IPS markets its full portfolio of process automation and optimization solutions in Indonesia under the name of PT. Invensys Indonesia, and through a network of certified system integrators with varied expertise in vertical and automation categories. With IPS committing more resources and manpower to serve its Indonesian customers, the company intends to expand its presence throughout Indonesia significantly.

Award Description
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership is given to a company that has exhibited market share leadership through the implementation of market strategy. The recipient has displayed excellence in all areas of the market leadership process, including the identification of market challenges, drivers and restraints, as well as strategy development and methods of addressing these market dynamics.

Furthermore, the Award recipient has continually demonstrated solutions for monitoring market changes and for implementing superior market strategies. By utilizing these strategies for success, the company has established itself as the market share leader in its respective industry.

Measurement Criteria
To be considered, the recipient must also excel substantially through an increase of one or more of these areas, including: market share, revenue growth rates, profitability, market and technology innovation.

Research Methodology
To choose the recipient of this Award, the Frost & Sullivan analysts track competitor revenue and market share within the industry. This is achieved through interviews with market participants and extensive secondary research of proprietary data sources. Frost & Sullivan then presents the Award to the company that achieved the highest market share.

"The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Indonesian Award for Market Leadership in SCADA was presented to Invensys for its excellence in establishing itself in the SCADA market in Indonesia. As an acknowledged SCADA market leader in the Indonesian market, with a 40% market share in 2006, Invensys has scaled the market through its technology strength, product quality, good support, service structure, and competitive pricing," said Satish Lele, Director for Industrial Practice, Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific.

Product Quality
Invensys' SCADA solution Wonderware is noted for its product quality, in terms of the product's technology strength and its user friendly nature. Wonderware uses Invensys' ArchestrA technology, which enables easy integration of Wonderware products with all existing components in the automation system making operations efficient and cost effective. Wonderware also offers a wide range of capabilities such as performance and production management solution for better decision-making. One differentiating factor from its competitors is that Invensys concentrates heavily on the software aspect of SCADA. These products have been recognized by user groups (Readers' Choice Award, Control magazine, Zenith Engineering Excellence Award - Process and Control Engineering) and have a reputation for being highly user friendly. With recognition of its product quality, Invensys is able to market its SCADA products successfully based on this factor.


About Invensys
Invensys Process Systems (www.ips.invensys.com) is the world leader in industrial asset performance management, a strategy designed to help today's industrial enterprises to effectively balance the availability and utilization of their production assets to match changing business requirements. Invensys Process Systems encompasses industry-leading brands such as InFusion, Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, and Avantis and provides advanced products, services, and solutions to industrial facilities around the world. These include many of the world's largest upstream operations, refineries, chemical plants, gas plants, LNG plants, power plants, mineral processing plants, and pulp and paper mills. The Invensys Group (www.invensys.com) is headquartered in London and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, with approximately 30,000 employees working in 60 countries.

Invensys, InFusion, Foxboro, Wonderware, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Avantis, I/A Series, and InTouch, are trademarks of Invensys plc, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.




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