Powerco is developing a GIS roadmap to improve its use of geographic information systems. The objectives are to generate return on investment, make GIS data available online and offline, drive asset management excellence, simplify data access, and allow end users to directly input data. Key issues to address are non-delivery of user demands, weak data quality controls, limited data visibility and collection, and an imbalance of reactive and proactive work. The roadmap will be implemented in four phases to upgrade web services, introduce workflow and decision tools, and improve mobility, collaboration and accessibility of GIS data. The final vision is for easy, device-agnostic access and contribution of Powerco asset data by users both online and offline.
Measuring Enterprise GIS Performance For the King County GIS CenterGreg Babinski
City councils, county auditors, and the public are more frequently expecting performance monitoring to ensure that public revenue is being spent well and that municipal services are cost-effective. GIS based analysis of various performance measures is a common application for many municipal, county, and regional government services.
But what if your agency expects performance measures of your GIS too? What if they expect performance measures and reporting within the context of your agencies budget process? Gasp! How can you turn performance monitoring into a tool that can help you manage your GIS better, build stakeholder support, and improve the budget process?
This presentation will outline the King County GIS (KCGIS) Center’s strategy and methods to embrace performance measurement and reporting.
Key aspects of the KCGIS Center’s portfolio of performance measures will be described. The process to identify valid measures and to establish linkages with key stakeholder agencies will be explained.
The importance of linking specific services that your GIS provides to key measures and ensuring that the factors that can affect the actual performance are clearly understood will be outlined. Finally, strategies to use performance measures as a tool to support your budget will be described.
The KCGIS Center approach may benefit other city, county, or regional enterprise GIS operations utilize performance measurement to manage and develop their programs.
Municipal GIS Capability Maturity Model QuestionnaireGreg Babinski
This is the questionnaire developed for the preliminary Municipal GIS Capability Model (GIS CMM). It was distributed to city and county GIS managers in Washington States and the results tabulated and analyzed in my paper presented at the 2009 URISA Annual Conference.
Measuring Enterprise GIS Performance For the King County GIS CenterGreg Babinski
City councils, county auditors, and the public are more frequently expecting performance monitoring to ensure that public revenue is being spent well and that municipal services are cost-effective. GIS based analysis of various performance measures is a common application for many municipal, county, and regional government services.
But what if your agency expects performance measures of your GIS too? What if they expect performance measures and reporting within the context of your agencies budget process? Gasp! How can you turn performance monitoring into a tool that can help you manage your GIS better, build stakeholder support, and improve the budget process?
This presentation will outline the King County GIS (KCGIS) Center’s strategy and methods to embrace performance measurement and reporting.
Key aspects of the KCGIS Center’s portfolio of performance measures will be described. The process to identify valid measures and to establish linkages with key stakeholder agencies will be explained.
The importance of linking specific services that your GIS provides to key measures and ensuring that the factors that can affect the actual performance are clearly understood will be outlined. Finally, strategies to use performance measures as a tool to support your budget will be described.
The KCGIS Center approach may benefit other city, county, or regional enterprise GIS operations utilize performance measurement to manage and develop their programs.
Municipal GIS Capability Maturity Model QuestionnaireGreg Babinski
This is the questionnaire developed for the preliminary Municipal GIS Capability Model (GIS CMM). It was distributed to city and county GIS managers in Washington States and the results tabulated and analyzed in my paper presented at the 2009 URISA Annual Conference.
Re-Implementation for Social Solutions Apricot 360 and Apricot CoreJeffrey Haguewood
In this presentation, we explore the re-implementation process for Apricot 360 and Apricot Core nonprofit database software.
Organizations experiencing significant workflow and reporting challenges within their Apricot software may benefit from a system re-implementation.
This video will cover:
- What to expect from your Apricot database
- 10 key indicators for re-implementation
- Phases of a re-implementation project
- Re-implementation approaches and considerations
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/oHXw4VPBu9c
About Sidekick Solutions
Sidekick Solutions is an independent software consulting firm, specializing in Social Solutions Apricot 360, Apricot Core, and Apricot Essentials software. We help new and existing Apricot users make the most of Apricot’s suite of features with a range of professional services for implementation, workflow optimization, reporting/analytics, consulting and training, integrations, and database audit/cleanup. We make Apricot easier to use and more capable for our clients, yielding higher return on investment in their Apricot software license.
Project Management Methodology for Site LaunchesMichael Eydman
This deck summarizes the approach to project lifecycle methodology used by typical consumer goods or brand site launch initiative. It also includes a recommended process for incremental feature release process. It can be used as a guide for managing projects within this context. I would encourage an operations team to adapt it to your organizational structure and stakeholder's teams.
This is my final year project for the Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology at St. Francis Institute of Technology. This aims to solve the problem of workflow for any type of requests raised with customized workflow-driven for different user roles. This is developed using Asp.net technology. This ppt summarises the process and methodologies adopted in the project.
iTransform Mobile App - Powered by Mobiquest Solutions Pte. Ltd Rakesh Sabharwal
iTransform is targeted to cater for various enterprise processes such as
- Plant Operations & Maintenance
- Safety Checks
- Inspection Routines
- Field Operations and Service
iTransform Mobile App enables your business to paperless operations.itransform enables the plant operations or maintenance team to be more efficient in executing schedules and adhoc tasks or jobs. Key innovation is to enable the user the ability to adjust, fine tune and even create new electronic forms, so that the operations team will continuously improve without the need to have IT support. iTransform allows dynamic design of checklists and forms to be used as part of the planning, scheduling and execution of tasks. Dynamic Forms Module allows user to create forms, checklists and templates such as survey, check lists, Inspection routine, Safety Checks, Service Reports etc. iTransform mobile client application enhances operations with in-building maps to be used by the operators to navigate in tunnels, enclosed places, Underground Facilities and production plants without public communications infrastructure.
To “Ask for quote” or “Request for Proposal” to get this Gold Award winning app, click here:
http://www.mobiquest.net/itransformproposal.html
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension - Leveraging FME to Automate Data ConversionsSafe Software
Arup is providing engineering design and technical advisory services supporting procurement, coordination, and construction of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE), a $4.7bn extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto.
The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension will take the Crosstown LRT another 9.2 km farther west, and includes seven stations (four underground, two elevated, one partially below-grade), a new bridge over the Humber River, and a 6.5-km tunnel. Supporting a complex multi-disciplinary design required the use of digital tools to facilitate project management and collaboration. Arup developed automated processes using FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) and FME Server to convert and publish CAD files to the project webviewer on a daily schedule as they were updated.
Using these processes, up-to-date design information is always available to view, analyze, and monitor the progress of the project in a single web mapping application for the project team, client, and stakeholders. The FME automation simplified an update process that required several software and manual intervention, ensuring fast, efficient, and reliable data downloads and conversions were handled autonomously.
Additionally, FME provided the ability to validate information and flag any CAD files that did not follow data standards outlined in the project, triggering an automatic email that stopped the conversion process and notified the developer. This helped uncover and resolve issues with design files before shared with the broader team.
Overall, FME has automated an otherwise manually exhausting ETL (extract, transform, load) process to accurately maintain and upkeep data, ultimately saving a significant amount of time and improving communication across multiple software platforms and within a multi-disciplinary design team
Re-Implementation for Social Solutions Apricot 360 and Apricot CoreJeffrey Haguewood
In this presentation, we explore the re-implementation process for Apricot 360 and Apricot Core nonprofit database software.
Organizations experiencing significant workflow and reporting challenges within their Apricot software may benefit from a system re-implementation.
This video will cover:
- What to expect from your Apricot database
- 10 key indicators for re-implementation
- Phases of a re-implementation project
- Re-implementation approaches and considerations
Watch the video:
https://youtu.be/oHXw4VPBu9c
About Sidekick Solutions
Sidekick Solutions is an independent software consulting firm, specializing in Social Solutions Apricot 360, Apricot Core, and Apricot Essentials software. We help new and existing Apricot users make the most of Apricot’s suite of features with a range of professional services for implementation, workflow optimization, reporting/analytics, consulting and training, integrations, and database audit/cleanup. We make Apricot easier to use and more capable for our clients, yielding higher return on investment in their Apricot software license.
Project Management Methodology for Site LaunchesMichael Eydman
This deck summarizes the approach to project lifecycle methodology used by typical consumer goods or brand site launch initiative. It also includes a recommended process for incremental feature release process. It can be used as a guide for managing projects within this context. I would encourage an operations team to adapt it to your organizational structure and stakeholder's teams.
This is my final year project for the Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology at St. Francis Institute of Technology. This aims to solve the problem of workflow for any type of requests raised with customized workflow-driven for different user roles. This is developed using Asp.net technology. This ppt summarises the process and methodologies adopted in the project.
iTransform Mobile App - Powered by Mobiquest Solutions Pte. Ltd Rakesh Sabharwal
iTransform is targeted to cater for various enterprise processes such as
- Plant Operations & Maintenance
- Safety Checks
- Inspection Routines
- Field Operations and Service
iTransform Mobile App enables your business to paperless operations.itransform enables the plant operations or maintenance team to be more efficient in executing schedules and adhoc tasks or jobs. Key innovation is to enable the user the ability to adjust, fine tune and even create new electronic forms, so that the operations team will continuously improve without the need to have IT support. iTransform allows dynamic design of checklists and forms to be used as part of the planning, scheduling and execution of tasks. Dynamic Forms Module allows user to create forms, checklists and templates such as survey, check lists, Inspection routine, Safety Checks, Service Reports etc. iTransform mobile client application enhances operations with in-building maps to be used by the operators to navigate in tunnels, enclosed places, Underground Facilities and production plants without public communications infrastructure.
To “Ask for quote” or “Request for Proposal” to get this Gold Award winning app, click here:
http://www.mobiquest.net/itransformproposal.html
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension - Leveraging FME to Automate Data ConversionsSafe Software
Arup is providing engineering design and technical advisory services supporting procurement, coordination, and construction of the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension (ECWE), a $4.7bn extension of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto.
The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension will take the Crosstown LRT another 9.2 km farther west, and includes seven stations (four underground, two elevated, one partially below-grade), a new bridge over the Humber River, and a 6.5-km tunnel. Supporting a complex multi-disciplinary design required the use of digital tools to facilitate project management and collaboration. Arup developed automated processes using FME (Feature Manipulation Engine) and FME Server to convert and publish CAD files to the project webviewer on a daily schedule as they were updated.
Using these processes, up-to-date design information is always available to view, analyze, and monitor the progress of the project in a single web mapping application for the project team, client, and stakeholders. The FME automation simplified an update process that required several software and manual intervention, ensuring fast, efficient, and reliable data downloads and conversions were handled autonomously.
Additionally, FME provided the ability to validate information and flag any CAD files that did not follow data standards outlined in the project, triggering an automatic email that stopped the conversion process and notified the developer. This helped uncover and resolve issues with design files before shared with the broader team.
Overall, FME has automated an otherwise manually exhausting ETL (extract, transform, load) process to accurately maintain and upkeep data, ultimately saving a significant amount of time and improving communication across multiple software platforms and within a multi-disciplinary design team
Eglinton Crosstown West Extension - Leveraging FME to Automate Data Conversions
Powero GIS Road Map Presentation1
1. Highway to Handsome GIS
Powerco’s GIS roadmap
Lokesh Addagada
Powerco / 28 March 2014
2. Key Objectives
Generate a return on the investment we have already made and to justify
future investment
Powerco GIS data to be made available to both on and offline users
To drive asset management excellence
Move from data input to data analysis - Ability for end users to submit data
directly into GIS without delay, meaning Powerco employees have a
greater QA focus rather than data inputting
Simplified access to data and associated applications
GIS data available in the way that people want to use it
3. List of Issues/Scenarios to be addressed
Non delivery of user demand for enhanced services and capabilities
◦ The current GIS services do not contain many features and tools that users have been
exposed to elsewhere and are requesting
◦ Poor integration to cloud based services and data
Weak controls and measures around data quality
◦ Data is being replicated multiple times
◦ Powerco staff are being used as data inputters rather than data auditors and quality
controllers
Data visibility and collection
◦ In most cases data is not entered into the GIS system for periods of months and in some
cases years. This leads to the following issues:
Unable to capitalise some assets
Unable to provide asset location to evacuation contractors
Unable to provide accurate, timely data to Outage Management Systems
◦ No ability to deploy electronic data to field staff for validating/updating, as a result data quality
and decision quality is limited
Incorrect balance between reactive and proactive workloads
◦ Powerco staff are increasingly being used to manage the existing aged system and develop
custom built features that are out of the box with later versions of ArcGIS
6. Improvement Areas
The objectives of the architecture vision are to provide the following improvement areas to the
GIS service
7. Mapping
Functionality Simplicity &
Flexibility
QA Focus Great
Analysis
Ability
Field Data
Processing
Greater
Visibility
Technology
Neutral
Greater
Integration
More Data Self Service Mobile Simple
Access
Improve
Productivity
Improvement
Powerco GIS data to
be made available to
both on and offline
users
● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Application sets to be
intuitive and to
provide greater tools
and features than at
present, in particular
end user analysis ● ● ● ●
Ability for end users
to submit data direct
into GIS without
delay, meaning
Powerco employees
have a greater QA
focus rather than data
inputting
● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Improved GIS data
quality techniques,
promoting GIS as a
primary source of
Powerco asset data
● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Simplified access to
data and associated
applications ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
10. Phase 10.1.2 - The vision of this phase is to upgrade and expand on the current
web services that serve the GIS data
Provide GIS data to users over a common web platform
Make the platform available to both internal and external users
11. Phase 10.1.3
The vision of this phase is to configure and introduce tools that help to achieve the following
goals:
Provide workflow management tools that give users visibility of asset data over lifecycle stages
Improve asset decision making
12. Phase 10.1.4
The vision of this phase is to improve GIS mobility, collaboration and accessibility to help achieve
the following goals:
Mobile/device agnostic access to GIS data from the field
User ability to self-serve and consume data in a personal and customised manner
13. Improvement area delivery phases
The below charts depict the required improvement areas and the phase(s) which will be
delivering the improvements.
14. End Vision Statement
The GIS programme of work, spread over four distinct phases, will transform the way in which
users consume and contribute to Powerco asset data. Key to the transformation and the success
of the programme will be the way in which the data is presented and consumed.
The two most critical phases to the programme are the first phase; 10.1.1, and the final phase
10.1.4. In the first phase the foundation for the entire programme vision will be laid. Upon this
foundation, numerous features and enhancements will be built, until eventually the final phase
10.1.4 will deliver the majority of the improvements.
As the majority of the improvements will be delivered in the final phase, it is crucial that all
phases are architected, engineered and implemented with this vision in mind. Any deviations
from the vision, standards and principles may have an impact on the success of the programme,
and thus should be managed carefully.
The vision is for data access to be web based, device agnostic, and give the user the ability to
consume and contribute to the data whilst both on and offline and how they see fit.
This progression towards self-sufficiency and creativity will enable Powerco data owners and
administrators to move into a more proactive role of data quality assessors rather than inputters.