OREANDA-NEWS. June 15, 2015. ServicePower Technologies Plc (AIM: SVR), a market leader in field service management technology, today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with Qton Solutions, the metering industry's leading field service management software provider in the United Kingdom.

Qton's platform, hosted and managed in the cloud by Qton, provides drag-and-drop scheduling of jobs, mobile dispatch with real-time status updates, and fully customisable industry compliant workflows which facilitate on-site data capture.

By including the ServiceScheduling solution into the Qton platform - incorporating the latest optimisation algorithms from ServicePower - Qton's work order management and mobile dispatch technology will now offer the benefits of intelligent, intra-day, schedule optimisation. Work orders will be created in Qton, optimised, and continuously re-optimised in ServiceScheduling, and dispatched to the metering field technicians.

Adam Bowen, Head of Operations, Qton Solutions, stated "The Qton field service management platform provides robust mobile workforce management functionality for metering services within the utilities industry. Integration of the ServicePower ServiceScheduling optimisation technologies enables us to offer true route optimisation in addition to the drag-and-drop scheduling our platform was designed to support. ServiceScheduling integrated to our platform, enables Qton to bring higher levels of efficiency and productivity to the industry, while maintaining the same level of customisable mobile workflow so necessary within the utilities sector."

Marne Martin, CEO, ServicePower, stated "This is yet another partnership for ServicePower which broadens its reach into new verticals. ServiceScheduling will provide the advanced optimisation technology which Qton's utility customers require to ensure the lowest cost maintenance schedules and highest levels of customer service, through offering real time, accurate appointments to the industry. The partnership gives customers a choice and also offers the product as a service which broadens our larger cloud-based offering. By working with Qton, ServicePower is able to grow its utilities customer base in the UK. This partnership further demonstrates our commitment to ServicePower's partner ecosystem.  We will achieve growth through integrating our technology with innovative partners whom extend our functional, geographical and execution reach, in addition to generating our own organic sales."