ACTEW Selects ESRI Software for Enterprise GIS; Miner and Miner to Supply Consulting and Data Conversion Services.Business Editors REDLANDS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2000 ACTEW ACTEW ACT Electricity & Water Authority (Australia) ACTEW A Commitment to Training and Employment for Women (Toronto, Canada) , a leading electric utility based in Australia, has selected ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Redlands, CA, www.esri.com) The world's leading developer of geographic information systems (GIS) software, including programs that plot ZIP codes and addresses, demographic information and detailed, color-coded data. software for a modern, enterprise geographic information system geographic information system (GIS) Computerized system that relates and displays data collected from a geographic entity in the form of a map. The ability of GIS to overlay existing data with new information and display it in colour on a computer screen is used primarily to (GIS) that will redefine how the company uses technology to better operate and serve customers. The implementation includes ESRI's advanced ArcInfo 8, ArcFM Energy, ArcView GIS, ArcPad and ArcIMS software. Miner and Miner (Fort Collins, Colo.) will supply consulting and data conversion services. "Utilities are turning to technology to keep ahead of the competition, and open, flexible GIS is part of that overall equation," said Lee Hopson, manager, ESRI-Australia (Canberra). "At ESRI, we strive to provide powerful, standards-based solutions that help unlock information, bringing geography to every desktop in the enterprise. ACTEW's enterprise implementation, which includes powerful Web GIS capabilities, will empower the company to automate more of how it uses information, and it will open up access to that information to more users." "We are working to deploy a single, integrated corporatewide system that will replace previously independent digital data stores," said Vince Hazell of ACTEW. "The digital world is changing our lives, and it is helping us at ACTEW find dramatically new ways to operate with greater efficiency and productivity. Our implementation will not only help us in the immediate future, but the technology is connected to the future: it will evolve as newer computing technologies evolve, guaranteeing a return on investment now and into the future." ACTEW Corp. is an electricity, water and sewerage sewerage, system for the removal and disposal of chiefly liquid wastes and of rainwater, which are collectively called sewage. The average person in the industrialized world produces between 60 and 140 gallons of sewage per day. utility located in the Australian Capital Territory Australian Capital Territory (1991 pop. 276,468), 939 sq mi (2,432 sq km), SE Australia, an enclave within New South Wales, containing Canberra, capital of Australia. It was called the Federal Capital Territory until 1938. . ACTEW began operations on July 1, 1995, as a result of the incorporation of the ACT Electricity and Water Authority. ACTEW supplies energy, water, sewerage and environmental services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, throughout its service area. The company serves approximately 131,000 electric customers, 120,000 water customers and 116,000 sewer customers. The robust GIS will supplant sup·plant tr.v. sup·plant·ed, sup·plant·ing, sup·plants 1. To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics. 2. legacy data management systems and manual and computer-aided design computer-aided design (CAD) or computer-aided design and drafting (CADD), form of automation that helps designers prepare drawings, specifications, parts lists, and other design-related elements using special graphics- and calculations-intensive mapmaking techniques with modern spatial data Data that is represented as 2D or 3D images. A geographic information system (GIS) is one of the primary applications of spatial data (land maps). See spatial analysis, spatial resolution and GIS glossary. management software from the desktop to the back office. The GIS will also help the utility track its extensive assets infrastructure, giving the company for the first time a single, common platform for managing all of its asset information. In departments such as engineering and operations, planners, field operators, managers, customer service personnel, engineers and others will use spatial data and applications in their day-to-day operations. GIS applications and data will be used for a number of key business applications at ACTEW including facilities maintenance management, work order management, customer account information, network modeling, environmental data management, logistics and more. Data will include customer locations; facility assets such as transformers, poles, meters, water and sewer mains and pumps; and environmental data. With implementation to begin in June 2000, full implementation at ACTEW is scheduled for completion in Q4 2000. |
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