SUNNYVALE, CA, Oct. 9, 2008 -- Trimble announced today that the Baton Rouge Water Company in Louisiana has selected Trimble® Fieldport® software to enhance its utility field operations. The Fieldport software is an automated Geographic Information System (GIS)-based field work and asset management solution.
"The Baton Rouge Water Company is committed to better serving the needs of our community and we believe that Trimble Fieldport will help pave the way for increased efficiencies in our asset management and field service activities," said Patrick J. Kerr, president of the Baton Rouge Water Company.
With the implementation of Trimble Fieldport software, Baton Rouge is optimizing its processes for asset management, maintenance, repair operations, and maintenance work planning and scheduling. In addition, an enhanced management reporting functionality is expected to help the utility department improve its asset performance, reliability and ensure that the right resources are available to the field worker at the right time. With Fieldport software, Baton Rouge will work toward restructuring other critical work processes such as customer field service, GIS mapping and tracking, field inspection, inventory planning and field data collection.
Trimble's Fieldport software is currently used by electric, gas, water and wastewater utilities throughout the U.S. to serve millions of residential and commercial customers nationwide.
Trimble's Utilities Field Solutions group specializes in implementing enterprise mobile workforce, computerized maintenance management (CMM), asset management, field data collection, staking and inspection solutions for electric, gas, water, wastewater and solid waste utilities. Trimble's UtilityCenter and Fieldport enterprise solutions automate utility operations leading to increased field worker productivity, enhanced customer service and faster emergency response times.
The Baton Rouge Water Company serves over 155,000 commercial, industrial and residential customers by providing reliable water services, engineering, construction and maintenance.
Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more productive. Solutions are focused on applications requiring position or location-including surveying, construction, agriculture, fleet and asset management, public safety and mapping.
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