| Title: | Mobilize Your Enterprise |
| Authors: | Terry Bartlett, Marshall and Associates, Inc. |
| Date/Time: | Monday, October 5 ~ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm |
| Abstract: | A growing number of both public and private organizations charged with managing assets are looking for ways to leverage their back office asset information systems (including GIS and EAM/CMMS) to support field operations. Almost all organizations have staff that perform some or all of their job functions in the field. This is particularly true of utilities.
Delivering information from these systems to the field to be used, collected and updated is a growing need and challenge. Both GIS and Operations Managers are enabling their field operations crews to manage assets in the field using automated mobile systems. Although not a painless process, many have gone “green” with respect to paperless work flows for work orders, service requests (linked to EAM/CMMS), as well as paperless updates of their GIS geodatabases. These organizations have the folks in the trenches providing timely updates to the GIS as well as timely reporting of field business activities and information collected to support those activities. In essence, these organizations have empowered staff that had no knowledge of GIS or the processes to be the foot soldiers and maintain data they are already ultimately responsible to maintain! Automating field business activities by providing current GIS maps integrated with business data to the field is essential to reduce your operations and maintenance costs. This presentation will explore the fundamentals of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) including the mobile enterprise as well as case study examples (Martin Co, FL; Winston-Salem, NC; Norfolk, VA; Longmont, CO; Las Vegas, NV; Tempe, AZ; and others) and will provide a road map for your enterprise integration and mobile implementation. |
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