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MidAmerican Energy Company Adopts Intergraph's G/Solutions.


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Unprecedented openness of Intergraph's G/Solutions to make

natural gas and electric geofacilities information directly

available to corporate systems and users in tightly integrated

Geospatial Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics.  Resource Management environment

Intergraph Utilities (Nasdaq:INGR) today signed a contract with MidAmerican Energy Company MidAmerican Energy Company is an energy company in the U.S. state of Iowa.

MidAmerican Energy Company is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company. See also
  • Intrepid Wind Farm
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 to upgrade Intergraph's successful FRAMME-based AM/FM/GIS to the company's next-generation technology for natural gas and electric geofacilities management. MidAmerican serves 1.3 million customers in a 10,000 square-mile area from Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls (IPA: [su fɑlz]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the county seat of Minnehaha County.GR6 The 2007 city population is 148,000. , to the Quad-Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. The new technology, G/Solutions, with its open architecture, will give MidAmerican more flexibility and opportunity to integrate geospatial data with other business-critical systems, such as Logica's Work Management Information System (WMIS WMIS Waste Management Information System
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 Terry Smith, operations manager See datacenter manager.  for MidAmerican's Delivery Services WM/GIS/CAD Project, "Our current FRAMME-based system served us well for approximately ten years during which time we have improved our ability to serve customers and cut operational costs. G/Solutions will extend our integration capabilities and enterprise data access even more, making it the logical next strategic component of our overall future corporate information infrastructure."

The system upgrade to G/Solutions will include migration of the company's extensive intelligent landbase, the addition of Logica's work management interface, and the incorporation of electric design tools into the design/construction workflow. Additionally, MidAmerican's 500 field personnel using the current FRAMME-based field application will be upgraded to the new G/MobileViewer technology, while the Web applications will migrate to the new G/NetViewer technology, achieving the company's goal of storing data once and capturing the data as close to the source as possible.

Kevin Hitt, vice president of Intergraph Utilities, said, "We are pleased to continue our long and successful partnership with MidAmerican by providing our next generation information technology platform. Thanks to the knowledge and experience we gained from serving leading-edge utilities, such as MidAmerican, we have been able to develop a technology platform that supports our strategy to be the independent solution of choice because of our platform's openness and adherence to industry standards."

Intergraph Utilities Background Information

Intergraph Utilities provides the world's leading Windows NT-based Geospatial Resource Management solutions for utilities. Intergraph Utilities' solutions integrate a full range of asset information management and decision support tools into a truly blended, enterprise IT environment. The company's products for Geospatial Resource Management include G/Solutions for electric, gas, water, and pipeline companies, FRAMME, and FRAMME Web View and Field View. Dedicated to streamlining the entire workflow, Intergraph also offers the InService suite of products, addressing outage out·age  
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2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power.
 management, workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. , crew dispatch, and mobile data needs.

Intergraph Corporation is a worldwide provider of end-to-end technical solutions and systems integration. Intergraph's vertically focused business units develop, market, and support software and services for local and national governments, and for global industries, including process and power, utilities, communications, mapping/GIS, photogrammetry photogrammetry: see aerial and satellite photography. , and public safety. Headquartered in Huntsville, Ala., with offices worldwide, Intergraph common stock trades on The NASDAQ Stock Market Nasdaq stock market

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 under the symbol: INGR. Intergraph is located on the Web at www.intergraph.com.

Intergraph and the Intergraph Logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. FRAMME and InService are trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

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