Intergraph Corp. announces that South American Utility successfully completes First-Of-A-Kind pilot project.MEDELLIN, Colombia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1994--Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM EPM equine protozoal myeloencephalitis. ) has completed one of the most comprehensive AM/FM/GIS projects in the world using mapping and facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. hardware and software from Intergraph Corp. (Huntsville, Ala.). EPM is a semi-autonomous utility offering telephone, electric, sewer, water and gas services. The project, called SIGMA, is a 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 for Medellin and surrounding areas using Intergraph's FRAMME and MGE/MGA software. The hardware and software used in the pilot project are valued at $700,000 (U.S.). Full system implementation is expected to represent an investment many times that amount. SIGMA is a first in that the pilot involves four utility facility models, a city cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. model and a common geographic database shared by EPM and the City of Medellin. Intergraph systems and software were selected after exhaustive research by EPM and its consultants. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Juan Guillermo Palacio, EPM's project director, ``The Intergraph solution let us build the models easier than other packages because it was designed specifically for utilities.'' Completed in October 1994, the pilot involved converting a small area of land base and four utility networks to help in the gathering of user requirements, specification of the models, and definition of the conversion approach for full deployment later on. EPM and the City of Medellin will use SIGMA to upgrade and re-engineer their operations, engineering and business processes to serve their customers and constituencies more efficiently and effectively. According to Palacio, ``The SIGMA project will be the most effective tool for EPM to use in the new environment of competition, privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation developing in Latin America and Colombia.'' EMP's Chief Information Officer Mauricio Arias said, ``Our strategic information system plan considers the SIGMA project the main new technological and management initiative Intergraph bases its products on Windows, Windows NT and UNIX operating systems. As one of the company's four business units, Intergraph Software Solutions (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) develops and markets integrated software for the Technical Desktop -- the combination of compatible technical applications and personal productivity tools in a single desktop computer. Technical applications include 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 , engineering, analysis, manufacturing, publishing and earth sciences. ISS also provides core system software, high-end applications, and training, consulting and implementation services. Note to Editors: If you wish to include telephone numbers for reader inquiries, please use 800/345-4856 or 1-205/730-5499. Or direct your readers to the Internet address http:back slash, back slash www.intergraph.com. Use of these numbers and the Internet address will allow Intergraph to better serve your readers. Intergraph is a registered trademark of Intergraph Corp. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Intergraph Corp., Huntsville Allyson Kirkpatrick, 205/730-8491 |
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