Mincom, a leading global provider of software and services to asset-intensive industries, has announced a global licensing agreement with Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company. Under the three year agreement, Mincom will provide Peabody with a hosted and fully managed implementation of Mincom LinkOne, a unique content delivery solution that provides maintenance staff with graphically supported electronic catalogs and maintenance manuals – helping companies to reduce equipment downtime and improve the efficiency of maintenance processes.

Supported by Mincom’s managed services offering, Peabody Energy will implement Mincom LinkOne to streamline procurement processes and optimise the maintenance of key equipment across its global operations. Peabody Energy will use SAP’s standard Open Catalog Integration (OCI) to integrate data between SAP Enterprise Buyer Professional and external catalogs provided by the company’s heavy equipment OEM vendors, such as Caterpillar and P&H.

Mincom LinkOne is a graphical content delivery solution that provides correct and timely parts information to maintenance staff, thereby reducing equipment downtime and improving maintenance efficiency. A world leader in graphical content management and distribution, Mincom LinkOne has the unmatched power to link graphics with parts lists and rich text to easily produce graphically supported electronic catalogs and maintenance manuals.

To quickly achieve return on investment, the company will use Mincom LinkOne to enhance the on demand delivery model and other support services provided by Mincom. Mincom’s managed services offering can help companies decrease total cost of ownership by speeding time to deployment and reducing IT overhead, and achieve faster time to results while minimising risk. Mincom offers customers a fully managed solution over their entire project lifecycle, implemented either on premise or fully hosted from Mincom’s data center to support the unique requirements of remote mining operations.

With 2009 sales of 244 Mt and $6 billion in revenues Peabody, a world leader in clean coal solutions, fuels 10% of US power and 2% of worldwide electricity – lighting cities on six continents.