Oniqua Celebrates 20 Years of Success in Optimizing the Performance of Fortune 500 Companies and

Online, January 5, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Brisbane, Australia - January 5, 2010 - Oniqua Enterprise Analytics (www.oniqua.com), a leading provider of Asset Performance Management (APM) and analytics solutions, this year celebrates 20 years of proven success in optimizing the business performance of asset-intensive organizations. The company has laid a strong foundation for its milestone year by increasing its global footprint, launching new strategic product initiatives,signing new customers and expanding deployments across existing clients..

Over the course of the year ending December 31st, 2009, Oniqua signed new and expanded agreements with some of the world's leading organizations across the mining, oil & gas, utilities and transportation industries, including:

- ConocoPhillips
- Ergon Utilities
- Energex Utilities
- ActewAGL Utilities
- Vale
- Alcoa of Australia
- Lihir Gold
- Xstrata Copper
- Orange County Transportation Authority

These new and expanded clients enhance Oniqua's ever-growing client base, which includes seven of the world's top 10 mining companies, two of the top five oil and gas companies, utilities customers spread across two continents and other global industry leaders such as Anglo Coal, Anaconda Nickel, BHP Billiton, BP, Freeport McMoRan, Newmont Mining Corporation, Integral Energy, Ok Tedi Mining, Rio Tinto and SANTOS.

"We are very pleased and humbled by the commitment our customers have demonstrated to Oniqua over the years," stated Andy Hill, CEO, Oniqua, "and we're extremely honored by both the quality and quantity of the world-class organizations that continue to rely on our solutions for their business needs. They clearly recognize the benefits that the Oniqua Analytics Suite and our services can bring to their bottom line, and their loyalty is a strong testament to the reliability and performance of our solutions offering."

With advanced analytics capabilities, cross-functional integration and outsourced optimization and data cleansing services, Oniqua solutions are currently used by asset-intensive organizations to optimize over $5 billion of critical inventory, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in annual savings for clients.

In addition to many new client engagements, other key milestones achieved and strategic initiatives launched by Oniqua in the past twelve months included:

-Enhanced product offering, including:
: Oniqua Analytics Online, a new software-as-a-service OAS offering;
: Major upgrade to its flagship Oniqua Analytics Suite;
: Web-based standards dictionary;
: New sustainability initiative
- Increased global footprint:
: Oniqua expands North American office;
: Oniqua moves headquarters to larger building to accommodate for continued growth;
- Company expansion:
: Oniqua hires new core team to provide enhanced focus on Utilities industry;
: Oniqua fortifies consulting and services teams;
- Industry accolades:
: Oniqua awarded two prestigious awards from the Premier of Queensland in Australia;
- Increased customer engagement:
: Oniqua launches new User Advisory Council;
: Oniqua conducts Oniqua User Forums in both the U.S. and Australia.

"Oniqua's asset performance management and analytics solutions were first developed back in 1990, following original and ground-breaking research that led to the creation of unique statistical algorithms specifically applicable to the demand profiles experienced by asset-intensive companies," stated Lindsay Clarke, president of Oniqua, Inc. "Our internal development team's efforts continue to produce feature-rich analytic capabilities, while our services, support and delivery teams continue to help our clients perform more efficiently and effectively in their respective industries. We look forward to continuing and extending our leadership position for many years to come as we work closely with our blue chip customer community."

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