Clean water supplierVeolia Waterhas deployed a new
geographic information system (GIS) from ESRI to improve business
efficiencies in its operations.
Veolia Water UK comprises Three Valleys Water, Folkestone &
Dover Water Services and Tendring Hundred Water Services.
The new ESRI ArcGIS system will provide Veolia Water UK with a
centralised hub of geographic intelligence for more efficient
planning and analysis of operations.
The software supports asset management and customer services
operations. The system covers a range of activities, including
emergency planning and water supply planning for new housing
development schemes.
It also supports the analysis and identification of candidates
for mains replacement and prioritisation.
The new
web-based corporate GIS will replace an existing corporate GIS
and help increase efficiency by closely integrating with Veolia
Water UK's business processes.
The decision to implement new GIS software is part of the
company's overall drive to improve systems integration and the
visibility of business processes.
Ted Volpe, Veolia Water UK's IT operational asset systems
manager, said, "The new corporate GIS system will help us to use a
powerful browser solution for most users, better fit our field and
design staff into the data maintenance process, meet critical
business needs we could not before, and build an open centralised
database that we can readily integrate with our other corporate
systems."
The new GIS software is planned to go live next summer. It will
encompass ESRI's ArcGIS Server web services/SOA platform plus
Telvent Miner & Miner's facilities-management system,
ArcFM.