|
Graphic Job Design & Estimating
What makes standard geographical systems such as ESRI, GE Smallworld or Intergraph easier to use and provides greater return on your investment by increasing productivity and overcoming inherent limitations of GIS systems? Answer: a graphical job design and estimating tool!
A proven graphical job design and estimating tool, operating within a geographic information system (GIS) environment and integrated with a work management system (WMS), is a software application that significantly helps engineers, designers and drafters with the entire engineering design process. Besides GIS and WMS integration, a graphic design system can also be integrated with various other third-party systems.
Driven by engineering standards, a graphic design tool, can be used to initiate, design and close work requests (WRs) that are designed with the tool. Based on the philosophy that engineering standards should drive the design of the company's facilities, the following benefits can be achieved:
- Automatically generated, placed and connected facility objects that can become
part of a viable and functional facility network.
- Standardized facility design.
- Easy integration of systems.
There are multiple basic stages in the graphic job design and estimating workflow that are supported by graphic design and GIS systems: Job Initiation, Job Design, Job Approval, Job Construction, As-Built evaluation, and Batch Merge and Post. Furthermore, a good graphic job design tool should support an automated As-Built process.
Enspiria has in-depth experience with various third party graphic job design tools and can help you with selection, planning, design and implementation of such applications.
We also have extensive experience in integrating graphic job design tools with the following types of systems to provide an end-to-end engineering design solution: GIS, WMS, financial management system (FMS), material management system (MMS), and plant accounting system (PAS).
Working with our clients, we ensure the end-to-end solution is designed to be configurable in order to support various departmental organization structures, various workflow processes (stand-alone within the department or in conjunction with work management system processes), and various tasks within an engineering department.
Location Analysis
In today's highly competitive cable market, being able to locate prospective customers is crucial to the success of a cable service provider. The location of potential customers affects many decisions, including infrastructure investments, marketing efforts and determining whether service can be provided to a service opportunity.
Integration means not only integrating disparate IT systems, it also means combining together useful information to facilitate location analysis - information including demographic data, market analyses, service territories, regulatory boundaries and other key components with cable infrastructure locations to determine the best opportunities for growth and expansion of the customer base and for targeting marketing expenditures.
Enspiria provides the expertise to help cable service providers tailor a location analysis program for targeted customer growth. Key phases include:
- Identifying potential data resouces to suppport the program.
- Determining data availability, including address aand plant data.
- Clarifying data gaps requiring acquisiton and managing the data.
- Constructing a realistic location analysis model based on sound business principles.
|
|
