Abstract

Moving from a Work Management to Asset Management Based System
Track: Public Works
Authors: Stacey Warren, Belinda Ramscar

The PARIS (Parks Asset Reporting and Information System) project was undertaken to accomplish these goals. Synergen was chosen as the Work Management component to go along with the ArcGIS component that was already in use at the City. The ArcGIS SDE became the record of source for all Parks Assets and related information and Synergen which later became Oracle WAM became the record of source for all Work related information.

Part of the project scope was to bring GIS to the field staff within Parks. An initial rollout of ArcGIS running on a Citrix server was employed, but it was quickly realized that a faster, easier to use software was required. Development of a web application called ParcMap was begun. Developed with Silverlight, and rolled out in December of 2011, ParcMap is an extremely robust, easy to use solution that all Parks users have embraced.