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STEP Energy Services' Go Live day with Spira's wireless field ticketing software in the field came and went with little or no fan-fare....just the way we like it.

After a successful and smooth implementation, STEP launched Spira Command and Spira Mobile in early December 2011, giving the company the ability to have its field ticketing system completely wireless.

STEP Energy Services is a is a privately-owned, technically-focused, oilfield service company providing specialized coiled tubing units and associated pumping and support equipment to service the deep horizontal well market in Western Canada.

"STEP has been using the Spira system since its very first job in the field, and it has been a great system to work with so far," says STEP Engineering Team Lead Lem Edillon.

"We chose Spira because not only myself, but also our president and COO, came from different service companies and we all had our struggles with the ticketing process and data capture. We wanted to use what we learned from that to make better decisions in the future.

"Acquiring and maintaining all activity, field ticketing, and payroll information in an efficient, easy-to-use, and customizable system was extremely important to the management team at STEP Energy Services," says Edillon. "Having the data in a central, web-accessible application that is searchable and that can create automated reports are the key features attractive to STEP in choosing Spira."

Features of Spira's field ticketing system currently being used by STEP include exporting payroll to ADP^®, exporting invoice data to Navision^® and equipment utilization tracking. The specialty coil tubing company is also using a custom entry form for fluid pumping data capture. Moving forward, STEP also plans to take advantage of such Spira features as revenue reporting and estimate vs actual billing tracking.

"The greatest value has been STEP's ability to customize Spira's software and tailor the functionality to suit our needs as a coiled tubing and pumping services company," says Edillon. "We are continuing to work with Spira to further improve processes both in the field and in our head office and look forward to some of the new features Spira has to offer in the future."

(CALGARY, AB) Spira Data Corp is pleased to announce that Recon Utility Search NA and Sonic Oilfield Service have begun beta testing of the new Spira field ticketing application for iPhone.

Recon and Sonic are field testing the iPhone application during July and August and are expected to be live in production in September of 2011.

The Spira field ticketing application for iPhone has been developed for field service businesses that typically do several field tickets during a normal workday but do not need to enter a significant amount of billing or payroll detail.

“We have targeted the iPhone towards field service companies that are operating hydrovac trucks and fluid hauling services where it makes no sense for them to be hauling around laptops and printers to create field tickets.” remarks Craig Latimer, VP Sales at Spira. “Instead they can carry around an iPhone or an iPad, enter their field ticket, have the consultant sign and approve the work right on the device and then email the consultant the ticket. It’s pretty slick.”

Craig continues, “The true test of our application is where we can give a hydrovac truck operator an iPhone with our application on it and he can enter a ticket with little or no instruction from us on how it works. Right now we are very close to achieving this and this is very exciting proposition because the adoption and training cycle for our customers and their drivers is substantially reduced.”

Spira for iPhone will provide field service companies with greater operational efficiency and accuracy by pushing pricing and business rules out to the field. Drivers in the field can complete an electronic ticket in less time than a traditional paper ticket with greater accuracy, spelling and pricing. Jobs can be scheduled and dispatched out to drivers while they are out in the field and drivers do not have to make a special trip back to the office just to turn in their daily paperwork.

Darcy Tuer, President of Spira Data Corp explains; “We expect that the two beta tests will wrap up by the end of summer and both Recon and Sonic will be fully live in September this year. The knowledge and insight we gain from working with these two companies will help us incorporate new functionality into our iPhone application and make it that much better for new customers coming on stream. We are fortunate to be working with both of these companies because they have taken an industry wide view to the development of the software and have been great to work with.”

The iPhone and iPad project have been spearheaded by Spira’s Chief Technology Officer, James St. Clair and Spira Developer Karl Schulze. James and Karl have been actively working to incorporate feedback from both Recon and Sonic into the product and are also engaged with Apple to make a demo version of the software available on the App Store in early August.

About Spira Data Corp.

Spira Data Corp is a Canadian software development and consulting services company based in Calgary, Alberta. Founded in 2004, Spira powers companies of all sizes to automate and streamline business processes and data from the field to the office with their flagship software solution, Spira Wireless Field Ticketing. This innovative solution facilitates a myriad of operational and financial oil field data capture, including expenses, equipment, materials, and billing, providing valuable time and cost savings for field-based businesses in Canada and the United States.

About Recon Utility Search NA

Recon Utility Search NA is a Hydrovac and Vacuum truck operation headquartered out of Hardisty, Alberta. Dean Ness, President of Recon states; “This will allow me to bill my customers 90% faster than when my drivers were writing out paper tickets. No more correcting, re-entering and waiting for tickets to come in so we can bill.”

About Sonic Oilfield Service Ltd.

Sonic Oilfield Service is a Fluid Hauling and Trucking company based out of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Mark Brown the CFO at Sonic is excited about the new iPhone application. He comments; “When you have 30 trucks filling out up to 5 paper tickets each day, the numbers add up for processing and administration costs.” Spira will “get our information into the office immediately and integrate into our accounting system.”

For more information on Spira for iPhone please contact Craig Latimer, VP Sales at 403-263-6475 or by email at craig.latimer@spiradata.com.

(Calgary, Alberta) Spira Data Corp a leading provider of mobile field ticketing to the oil and gas services sector is pleased to announce the release of Spira 4.8.16 R3.

The 4.8.16 R3 release incorporates the following new features and benefits.

• New client updater tool
• .Net 4 Compatible
• 33 – 50% improvement in ticket operating performance
• New well service tour sheet approval routing and other functions
• Enhanced PDF form functionality
• Auto-deprecate offline store feature

The Spira 4.8.16 R3 release is an interim release and is not mandatory. It is available to all Spira customers through Spira support. In addition to the above new features there are numerous other enhancements incorporated into this release. Full Release Notes can be found by clicking here. For more information on the 4.8.16 R3 release, please contact Spira support at 403-263-6475 or by email at support@spiradata.com.