WellPoint Systems

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WellPoint Systems Inc.
Company type Private
Industry Energy
Founded1997
Headquarters Calgary, AB Canada and Denver, CO USA
Key people
Richard D. Slack, President & CEO

Hervé Séguin, CFO
Michael J. Weiss, Chief Technology Officer
Christopher Dinkler, Vice President, Global Sales

Alan Hopp, Vice President, Global Services

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Number of employees
193 (2008)
Website www.wellpointsystems.com

WellPoint Systems Inc., a Calgary-based private company, develops and supports software packages for the energy industry. [1] The company's software is used in various applications including oil marketing, asset management and operations management. [2] WellPoint's energy software suite utilizes Dynamics AX and .NET architectures. The company also provides software and services under the BOLO, [3] IDEAS International and iSoft brands.

WellPoint currently employs nearly 200 people [4] in seven offices worldwide. The company was publicly traded on the TSX Venture Exchange, a public venture capital marketplace for emerging companies, [5] before it was delisted by the exchange for failling to maintain the exchange's requirements in 2013. [6]

History

Founded in 1997, Calgary-based WellPoint Systems also has operations in Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas; Livingston, New Jersey; Tampa, Florida; Tunis, Tunisia and Pretoria, South Africa. In 2006, WellPoint acquired IDEAS International, Inc. and then Bolo Systems, Inc. [7] and iSoft Technologies (pty) Ltd. in 2007. Wellpoint's software products include AX EAM, BOLO, Energy Broker, Energy Financial Management and IDEAS. The company entered into receivership on January 31, 2011. [8]

April 2011, Energy Solutions announced its plan to purchase Wellpoint Systems. [9] Details of the acquisition were announced in their FAQ. [9] P2 announced the completion of the WellPoint Systems acquisition on May 2, 2011. [9]

Notable events

WellPoint was recently ranked 249th on the 2008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, [10] a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunication and life sciences companies in North America; 28th on the Canadian Technology Fast 50, [11] a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology firms in Canada; 6th in the Over $20 Million Group for Alberta Venture's 2009 Fast Growth 50 list, a ranking of Alberta's 50 fastest growing companies working in information technology, real estate development, and manufacturing, as well as business, financial and oilfield services; and 96th in the 2009 Branham300 Top 250 Canadian ICT Companies, [12] a ranking of top Canadian and multinational Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) companies operating in Canada.

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