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Indus International Inc. (NASDAQ: IINT), a leading Service Delivery Management (SDM) solution provider, today convened its annual Nuclear Leadership Council (NLC) forum here in the company's global headquarters. Indus clients operate more than 118,000 MW of commercial nuclear power plants and many government research reactors, and the great majority of these operators will be represented in the session. Over the next two days, nearly two dozen of the nuclear industry's asset manager leaders will discuss nuclear industry business drivers and identify strategies that leverage Indus solutions to support their corporate growth and operational excellence goals. Sponsored by Indus, a company with more than 20 years experience supporting nuclear power providers, the NLC forum features industry leaders from both operational and technology organizations, from C-level executives to directors of IT. Gregory Smith, Senior VP of Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) and Chairman of the NLC, will join Terry Maxey, Indus VP of Utility Solutions, to lead a discussion of opportunities to improve key business processes such as Corrective Action Program, fleet management, equipment reliability and vintage management. In addition, Dennis Legere, Director of Outages and Work Control for Entergy Nuclear Operations, and John Smith, Director of Nuclear IT for Entergy Nuclear South, will provide an update on the recent upgrade of Entergy plants to the latest release of Indus Asset Suite. There will also be a session on leveraging Indus Asset Suite to support the construction of new nuclear plants and best practices for preparing combined license (COL) applications. Furthermore, Indus nuclear customers from Canada, Hungary, Romania, UK and the U.S. will discuss their strategic imperatives, offer product development input to Indus and trade best practices based on real-world experience. "The Indus Nuclear Leadership Council provides a unique forum where a group of nuclear executives can gather to collaborate on the key asset management issues facing our industry," said OPG's Smith. "Indus has consistently delivered powerful solutions to the industry by engaging directly with the community and being flexible to the demands of the industry. Indus has shown they are more than a software vendor - they are a true partner to the nuclear industry. Sponsoring this event and sharing their 20 years of expertise in the industry with the council demonstrates that Indus is dedicated to working with us to overcome obstacles and achieve ever greater levels of operational excellence." "Business drivers such as operations excellence, regulatory compliance, aging workforce and aging assets are forcing utilities to rethink work and asset management processes and systems," said Rick Nicholson, vice president of Research for Energy Insights, an IDC Company. "The ability to leverage business best practices among peers to drive the evolution of work and asset management solutions is critically important if utilities are to meet the challenges of these increasingly demanding business drivers." Continuing Record of Excellence One of the main purposes of the NLC forum is for members to share best practices implemented via Indus solutions and to strategize ways to multiply these successes in the future. Indus clients have experienced tremendous performance utilizing Indus solutions in the past year, including the following examples: -- Entergy Upgrades Work and Supply Chain Management. Entergy recently went into full production on the latest enterprise asset management (EAM) software from Indus, implementing a single Indus supply chain solution across their regulated utility business and standardizing and upgrading the work management systems in their Southern Nuclear stations. The next phase of the project is to replace the varied work management and supply chain systems in their unregulated Northeast Nuclear Stations to standardize the entire nuclear fleet on Indus solutions. -- Ontario Power Generation (OPG) Continues Performance Improvements in Generation. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, OPG increased its net income to $342 million compared to $25 million for the same period last year. The company credited the increase due to the favorable impact of an increase in gross margin from electricity sales primarily due to higher nuclear generation compared to the same period in 2005. -- Paks NPP Streamlines Business Process on Indus. PAKS Nuclear Power Plant (Paks NPP) rolled out an Indus asset management solution to increase efficiency, improve reliability, reduce operations and maintenance costs, minimize maintenance, optimize inventory levels, ensure general safety and regulatory compliance and extend the lifecycle of the plant. -- Progress Energy Wins Edison Award. Progress Energy was presented the Edison Award from the Edison Electric Institute for the outstanding operation of the company's nuclear and fossil generating plants, which are supported by Indus work and asset management solutions. Using an enterprisewide Indus asset management solution, Progress Energy standardized hundreds of nuclear operational procedures and business processes for its nuclear fleet, resulting in significantly reduced operating costs, increased net generation, improved safety and reduced outage durations. The work of the Indus NLC will help continue Indus' leadership in driving operational excellence in the nuclear industry. Indus offers the only comprehensive asset management solution that enables the deployment of best practices standardization across an entire nuclear fleet, enabling efficiencies far beyond those achievable by a single power plant. Furthermore, utilizing the services-oriented Indus Foundation Architecture, Indus solutions for nuclear generation offer the ability to accelerate business benefits and reduce the complexity of business processes via an easy-to-use, tailorable graphical user interface. As a result, best practices can be easily standardized across the entire fleet, and integrated with engineering design tools, financial systems, enterprise resource planning packages and other third-party applications. "The nuclear industry has established a continuing track record of outstanding performance, safety and reliability, as our Nuclear Leadership Council members have clearly demonstrated," said Indus' Maxey. "We at Indus are proud to have contributed to this history of excellence through our innovative solutions and deep knowledge of the industry, and we are committed to continuing to help our nuclear clients grow and thrive in the future." About Indus International Indus is a leading Service Delivery Management (SDM) solution provider, helping clients in a broad array of industries optimize the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts inventory, tools and documentation in order to maximize performance and customer satisfaction while achieving significant cost savings. Indus customer, asset and workforce management software products, professional services and hosted service offerings improve our clients' profitability by reducing costs, increasing capacity and competitiveness, improving service to their customers, facilitating billing for services and ensuring regulatory compliance. Indus solutions have been purchased by more than 400 companies in more than 40 countries, representing diverse industries -- including manufacturing, utilities, telecommunications, government, education, transportation, facilities and property management, high tech, consumer packaged goods and more. For more information, visit our Website at http://www.indus.com. Indus is a registered trademark of Indus International, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.