FORT COLLINS, CO, Aug. 30, 2005 -- Tillamook People's Utility District (PUD), an electric utility serving Tillamook County, Oregon, has announced its selection of Designer, Miner & Miner's integrated design solution, for increasing performance in designing and tracking distribution projects and maintaining GIS data. By enhancing operational efficiency, Tillamook PUD will better serve its 19,000 residential, commercial, and industrial customers.
Tillamook PUD chose Designer because its out-of-the-box functionality met company requirements without expensive customization. Designer also provides Tillamook PUD with a reliable open architecture that allows administrators the ability to extend, configure, and customize the system as the PUD service area grows and conditions change. Using Designer and the Workflow Manager framework, Tillamook PUD will maintain a streamlined workflow to integrate GIS with its Work Order Management System.
Tillamook PUD began data migration in August 2005, and forecasts full operation of Designer in early 2006. Miner & Miner will provide project management support, data modeling, data conversion specification, and configuration training as part of the technology transfer for Tillamook PUD.
Duane Pfeiffer, Tillamook PUD's software engineer states, "We found M&M's products utilize ESRI's proven GIS technologies well. Designer provides us with a robust design package that is highly configurable. The ArcGIS Electric Distribution Data Model is well thought-out and models our business accurately."
Miner & Miner (www.miner.com), a Telvent company, is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&M's ArcFM Solution and extended services assist electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities in increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving services by allowing them to effectively manage spatial information. Founded in 1946 as a full-service electrical engineering firm, M&M has been a business partner of ESRI since 1987. This partnership has enabled M&M to become the world's leading developer of ArcGIS applications for the utility industry. M&M services include implementation, integration, and customization of software to fit the needs of individual utilities.
Based in Madrid, Spain, and with North American headquarters in Calgary, Canada, and U.S. offices in Houston and Baltimore, Telvent (www.telvent.com), a global real-time information technology company, specializes in high technological added value in four specific industrial sectors (energy, traffic, transportation and environment) in Europe, America and China.
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