Siemens Enterprise Communications and Tiburon, Inc. Partner to Provide Integrated Public Safety Systems

Announcing plans to partner in their solution offerings to provide customers with best of breed solutions in the area of public safety 


BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 28  /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Enterprise Communications and Tiburon, Inc. announced today they have entered into a strategic partnership where together they can better serve their customers with a more holistic, end-to-end solution for emergency response and public safety.  The combination of Siemens Command and Control solution with Tiburon's Computer Aided Dispatch system delivers improved communications and more efficient dispatch, helping to reduce response times and improve resource utilization.

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Siemens provides public safety organizations their Command and Control Open Communications solution with features including radio caller ID and emergency alerts, as well as better control of vital information and improved situational awareness. All information is channeled to a single central point, where it can be recorded, evaluated and processed with increased speed and efficiency - all in real time. It also leverages the power of fixed mobile convergence - bringing IT, wired and wireless voice and data together over an IP network - facilitating enhanced continuity of operations, improved information gathering and processing, and optimized real-time decision-making.

Serving some of the largest most complex agencies in the world, Tiburon is one of the country's leading providers of integrated public safety and justice solutions. Tiburon's suite of products includes computer aided dispatch, records management, court and probation software systems for law enforcement, fire and rescue, corrections and justice agencies. With a reliable, distributed peer-to-peer architecture, Tiburon's Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system supports dispatching and incident control for law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services.

By combining Siemens Command and Control Communications solution with Tiburon's CAD system, customers are better able to get the right information to the right people, and the right people to the incident - wherever they are - more quickly and reliably for more effective incident management.

"With Siemens' focus on emergency communications and Tiburon's focus on rapid dispatch of relevant resources, combining efforts gives public safety and first response organizations the best of both worlds," said Dana Rasmussen, President of Siemens Enterprise Communications in North America.

About Siemens Enterprise Communications

Siemens Enterprise Communications is a joint venture between the private equity firm The Gores Group, a leading private equity firm, and Siemens AG. The joint venture incorporates Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG, its worldwide affiliates and the businesses of Enterasys Networks and SER Solutions, creating a new leader in enterprise communications - strong in unified communications, contact centers and secure networks. More than 14,000 employees worldwide follow an Open Communications approach, providing enterprise communications and data networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes. This enables business processes to be more productive, faster and more secure within any network or information technology infrastructure. In fiscal 2007 Siemens Enterprise Communications generated revenues of approximately 3.2 billion Euros. For more information about Siemens Enterprise Communications, please visit http://www.siemens.com/open.

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Tiburon, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of CompuDyne Corporation, a leader in sophisticated security products, integration, and technology for the public security markets.

About CompuDyne Corp. and Tiburon, Inc.

CompuDyne, headquartered in Annapolis, MD, is an industry leader in sophisticated security products, integration, and technology for the public security markets.  The company operates a number of divisions and has more than 700 employees in 11 states and the United Kingdom. CompuDyne's Tiburon, Inc. division, based in Pleasanton, CA, provides fully integrated command and control, information management, and analysis solutions to public safety and justice organizations. Established in 1980, Tiburon is the industry-leading provider of automated solutions to meet the demanding and complex needs of law enforcement, fire and rescue, corrections, and justice agencies. For more information, go to http://www.compudyne.com/ and http://www.tiburoninc.com/.

This release contains forward-looking statements based on beliefs of Siemens management. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "forecast," "expect," "intend," "plan," "should," and "project" are used to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the company's current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause the actual results to be materially different, including, among others, changes in general economic and business conditions, changes in currency exchange rates and interest rates, introduction of competing products, lack of acceptance of new products or services and changes in business strategy. Actual results may vary materially from those projected here. Siemens does not intend or assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements. 

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