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Subject: gpcm summary 1999 | |
this has been a great year for rbac and gpcm . | |
during the year we have doubled to 10 the number of gpcm licensees . | |
this means we ' ve also doubled the number of wonderful people we ' ve trained | |
and are supporting . | |
and , i sincerely mean it when i say it has been a real pleasure working | |
with you all . | |
one of the things we stress when we are selling gpcm is that it takes a | |
strong commitment on the part of the licensee , a commitment to find skilled | |
and dedicated people to make optimal use of this sophisticated tool . and , | |
i ' m happy to report that we have that quality in the gpcm teams we work | |
with . | |
next year we have some big challenges . we will be converting the system | |
from office 97 to office 2000 and will also need to make sure it will run | |
in the windows 2000 environment . | |
we will be adding new flexibility in defining our transportation zone price | |
curves to enable users , especially pipeline users , to test variations of | |
pricing strategies for their impacts on basis and utilization . | |
we will be adding a capability for modeling future ft contracting . | |
we will upgrade our existing database comparison program to allow you to | |
select those items you want to have automatically updated in your own | |
databases . | |
we will continue to work with rdi to improve pipeline and storage | |
infrastructure representations , to provide interfaces between gasdat and | |
gpcm , and to give you regular optional updates for your own databases . | |
we are beginning to plan out a new website dedicated to gpcm licensees ( and | |
possibly prospects ) . we have acquired gpcm . rbac . com and gpcm . net for this | |
purpose . | |
in making these various changes , we look also to you , our existing | |
licensees , for enhancement and improvement ideas . we are planning to | |
conduct interviews of our licensees during the next 30 - 60 days to find | |
out what you like , but also what you would like to see improved , as well as | |
some new ideas for gpcm . | |
i would like to thank the following people for their contributions to gpcm | |
during 1999 . | |
o liam leahy for his excellent marketing , sales , and planning support | |
o charles carr for his quality work on our website and support with subtle | |
visual basic programming issues | |
o richard berman for thorough research on design tools and skilled windows | |
programming | |
o richard mcbride for continuing support and development of his emnet | |
optimization program | |
o aaron and james brooks for design and production of the powerpoint | |
pipeline maps now available in gpcm | |
o mike farina and rdi for their continuing improvement of the gpcm data and | |
gasdat database | |
o gpcm users who have found data bugs and reported them to use so that we | |
could get them corrected | |
o gpcm users who have suggested new features which would make gpcm a better | |
product | |
o gpcm users who have given us sales leads during the year | |
o gpcm users who have used gpcm to help their companies make better plans | |
and decisions , which is , after all , the purpose for which it was designed | |
we hope all of you have a wonderful holiday season and look forward to an | |
even better year 2000 . | |
bob brooks |