AbstractMaximizing GIS Investments Through Optimal Enterprise Asset Management Integration Track: Electric and Gas Author(s): Peter Manos, Chris Steely, Blake Wiggins Many utilities share a vision of using GIS as a central function. Experience has shown that optimal integration to enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions, along with electronic document management systems (EDMS), helps maximize utility return on GIS investments. EAM/GIS integration enables engineering, field, and customer-facing personnel to utilize links that optimize their effectiveness, from design engineering and project planning, to linkage of field work and customer service activities. Along with EDMS, an EAM/GIS solution maximizes the value of information to all utility personnel by preventing "silo-ing" of information and maintaining data integrity from work request to closeout. Peter Manos Indus International Sales 3301 Windy Ridge Parkway Atlanta , GA 30339 USA Phone: 770 989 4088 Fax: 770 989 4461 E-mail: peter.manos@indus.com Chris Steely Indus International 3301 Windy Ridge Parkway Atlanta , GA 30339 Phone: 415.601.5415 Fax: 702.896.5294 E-mail: chris.steely@indus.com Blake Wiggins Indus International Product Strategy 60 Spear Street San Francisco , CA 94105 USA Phone: 415 904 4018 Fax: 415 904 3849 E-mail: blake.wiggins@iint.com |