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Axiom Corporation Announces Contract Award to Provide Pennichuck Water Works, Inc. with the Mobility Scheduling Solution ATLANTA, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Axiom Corporation, a leading systems integration and solutions firm, announced a contract award to provide Pennichuck Water Works Inc., a wholly owned operating subsidiary of Pennichuck Corporation , with Axiom's Mobility scheduling solution. The scheduling solution will provide Pennichuck, the largest investor-owned water company in New Hampshire, with a best-of-breed schedule optimization and routing system. Axiom's Mobility scheduling component, a powerful scheduling algorithm powered by ClickSoftware (NASDAQ:CKSW), will provide Pennichuck Water with a platform for dynamic scheduling, real-time crew optimization by dispatchers, street-level routing of service personnel and second-to-none emergency response capability for customers. Axiom will integrate the Mobility scheduling solution with Pennichuck Water's customer information system for real-time appointment availability and schedule visibility for Pennichuck Water's customer service representatives. "The Mobility scheduling component will provide Pennichuck Water with a comprehensive solution that will meet our requirements today, while providing a flexible solution to meet our future needs," states Steve Greenwood, Project Manager for Pennichuck. "Pennichuck Water selected the Axiom solution based on its ease of use, configurability, standards based integration, and feature rich reporting capabilities. The Axiom offering will be the foundation for Pennichuck to offer second-to-none customer service to our customers, while improving our efficiency and productivity in the field." "Axiom Corporation's utility experience and knowledge coupled with ClickSoftware's service optimization software provides Pennichuck with a world-class utility focused solution. Customers that have implemented the solution have all seen significant productivity gains, reduction in operating costs, and improved customer service," states Leo Hagood, Axiom Corporation Vice President of Business Development. "We are confident Pennichuck Water will experience the same results." ABOUT AXIOM CORPORATION: Axiom is a leading systems integration and solutions firm that partners with clients and best of breed software providers to achieve superior performances through the use of information technology. Axiom provides a full range of consulting, implementation, integration and development services for the Utility industry, Transportation industry, State and Local Government and the Federal Government. In addition to integration services, Axiom provides a customer information solution that delivers integrated resource and financial planning, mapping and reporting through Synchro; and satellite and wireless Computer Aided Dispatch, Scheduling and AVL computing solutions for the utility industry through Mobility, the mobile workforce solution. Axiom has office locations in Atlanta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; and Washington, DC. For more information visit http://www.axiom-corp.com/ / http://www.mobility-inc.com/ . ABOUT PENNICHUCK WATER WORKS INC.: Pennichuck Water Works Inc. ( http://www.pennichuck.com/ ) is one of five wholly owned operating subsidiaries of Pennichuck Corporation, a publicly traded holding company listed on NASDAQ (Symbol: PNNW). Pennichuck Water Works is the leading private supplier of water for domestic, commercial and industrial use and fire protection to 120,000 residents in 22 communities in southern New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Pennichuck Water Works has been in existence for over 150 years and has three facilities. CONTACT: Heather Nester of Axiom Corporation, 404-995-8880, or DATASOURCE: Axiom Corporation CONTACT: Heather Nester of Axiom Corporation, +1-404-995-8880, or Web site: http://www.axiom-corp.com/ http://www.mobility-inc.com/ http://www.pennichuck.com/

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