Frost & Sullivan: ASKOM's SCADA System Offers One of the Best Performance-to-Price Ratios

LONDON, September 13, 2010 - Based on its recent analysis of the European SCADA market, Frost &
Sullivan has presented ASKOM Sp. z o.o. (ASKOM) with the "2010 Polish SCADA
Price Performance Value Leadership Award." In a market continuing to battle
the repercussions of the economic downturn, ASKOM's Asix has proved a hit, as
a low-cost solution boasting functionalities competitive with those of more
expensive products.

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The constant influx of vendors offering innovative products has
substantially fragmented the Polish supervisory control and data acquisition
(SCADA) market. To sustain a leading position in such a competitive market,
SCADA manufacturers must continually introduce new technologies and add
functionalities to their existing systems.

Asix is a software bundle for design and realization of industrial IT
systems for enterprises, processes, technological lines, machines and
devices. Even at one-third of the price of competing products, it possesses
significant levels of functionality, enabling it to fulfil the expectations
accorded to human-machine interface (HMI/SCADA/manufacturing execution
systems (MES).

A basic part of Asix is the visualization system, a SCADA-class software
designed to facilitate operator supervision over technological objects and
assure both analogue and digital data acquisition.

ASKOM recently launched its enhanced Asix 6 version, offering the AsTrend
module for graphical process data analysis, AsAlarm for alarm analysis,
AsRaport for report creating, AsPortal for Internet access to all data types,
AsBase for batch processing and event-driven data archiving, and AsAudit for
system validation according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 21 CRF
11/GAMP4 requirements. This new version, developed in close collaboration
with practitioners, has become a highly advanced tool that meets the
requirements of this software segment.

"Asix architect guides users through the entire application-design
process, providing them with the tools necessary for layout adoption, and
offering a set of ready-made products, such as the Process Information Web
Portal, to allow for automatic data presentation on the Web," says Frost &
Sullivan Research Analyst Katarzyna Owczarczyk. "The benefit of an
easy-to-operate system, which simultaneously offers remarkable
price-to-performance value, is incalculable, making Asix hugely appealing to
the Polish SCADA market."

As with any technological solution, vendors are expected to offer
superior after-sales service support. Accordingly, ASKOM employs skilled and
experienced visualization and automation system designers and developers to
manage the technical after-sales support. ASKOM also supports a group of
authorized system integrators, comprised of a chain of over 30 companies.
This group provides a team of experts, that asix users can find locally to
run the design, start-up, and service of systems based on Asix's software.

The Asix system design is exceptionally simple and intuitive. It
eliminates the need to purchase a separate design license, as an application
designer is made available in each product. Asix serves objects effectively
by archiving data directly in the operator station, even for extensive number
of variables, and thereby reducing the project cost considerably.

A notable aspect of Asix's software is its high functionality. This has
been confirmed in many situations, including those requiring high reliability
or in connection with system validation for critical applications in the
pharmaceuticals and food processing industries.

"The use of over 4,000 licenses by an impressive clientele confirms the
success of Asix and its wide acceptance," notes Owczarczyk. "These include
heating plants, sewage treatment plants, the food industry, intelligent
buildings, the chemical and machine industry, and telemetric systems, among
others."

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to a company that has
developed a product to suit the market and client needs. The award lauds
price competitiveness, product features and ease of use, and service
efficacy, as it benefits the recipient company.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety
of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and
superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation,
customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts
compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth
interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify
best practices in the industry.

About ASKOM

ASKOM is the integrator of automation systems, manufacturing execution
systems (MES) and SCADA systems. ASKOM's SCADA product is a software bundle
for design and realization of industrial IT systems, providing significant
levels of functionality as expected from HMI/SCADA/MES software. Beyond
standard visualization and controlling, it realizes the effective archiving
of data, reporting and trending, alarm management, recipes, visualization in
Internet, multilingualism, production tracing and tracking.

    Contact:
    Tomasz Janiczek
    Marketing Manager
    P: +48-32-301-8142
    E: tomasz.janiczek@askom.com.pl

    Or

    Agnieszka Marzec
    Office of Manager Board
    P: +48-32-301-8147
    E: agnieszka.marzec@askom.com.pl

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    Contact:
    Chiara Carella
    Corporate Communications - Europe
    P: +44-(0)-20-7343-8314
    E: chiara.carella@frost.com

Tomasz Janiczek, Marketing Manager, +48-32-301-8142, tomasz.janiczek at askom.com.pl, or Agnieszka Marzec, Office of Manager Board, +48-32-301-8147, agnieszka.marzec at askom.com.pl, both of ASKOM; or Chiara Carella, Corporate Communications - Europe of Frost & Sullivan, +44-(0)-20-7343-8314, chiara.carella at frost.com