SYKORA Data Center, part of the SYKORA Group in Czech Republic, has been a leading producer of Spatial Network Inventories for telecommunication companies and utilities since 1995. SYKORA acts as an integrator of applications supporting technical processes related to large networks for nationwide operators in central Europe and German speaking countries. Among these are national telecommunication operators and multi-national telecommunication networks, including RWE, one of Europe’s largest utility corporations.
SYKORA’s customers operate their networks in several countries with different legislations, surveying traditions, and map standards. Accurate and actual background maps to locate their networks as well as up-to date postal addresses for their customers are critical for these customers. Such data is often provided by 3rd parties as web services. With the Web Maps Connector SYKORA can reliably combine such data with their customer’s spatial data. This results in efficiently solving spatial operations such as location searching.
SYKORA joins we-do-IT, Globema, Diakinotiki, and breakoutimage as an authorized reseller of WMC.
Interested in learning more about the Web Maps Connector? Contact us at sales@ifactorconsulting.com or call us at (800) 631-9839.
Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative (PCEC) in Missouri is the most recent utility to add the power of Storm Center to its website. iFactor’s Storm Center product provides PCEC with a dynamic outage map, showing both individual outages and outage summaries by zip code. The map also provides important details for each outage, including the number of customers affected, estimated restoration time and crew status. With Storm Center, customers, the media, emergency responders, and public officials have quick and easy access to vital outage information 24 hours a day.
PCEC’s Storm Center is provided as a completely managed service, which makes the benefits of a fully supported outage map available without the major internal IT and infrastructure requirements typical of an on-premise installation. As a managed service, PCEC has access to product updates on a regular basis with minimal involvement. The service also provides 24/7 availability and guaranteed scalability, making sure outage information is available to members in all circumstances, including blue sky days and high-traffic storm scenarios.
NIPSCO, the largest natural gas distribution company and the second largest electric distribution company in Indiana, recently implemented StreetLightOutages.com on their website. SLO streamlines the streetlight outage reporting process for NIPSCO customers and makes it quick and easy for NIPSCO to communicate repair updates to their customers. Read more on the SLO blog!
Digital Map Products (DMP), a leading provider of software-as-a-service spatial technology solutions, recently partnered with iFactor Consulting to offer the utility industry seamless access to nationwide parcel data through its Web Maps Connector product. As an authorized reseller of DMP’s ParcelStream™ web service, iFactor makes it easy for GE Smallworld users to leverage parcel boundaries for improved efficiency and decisions in areas such as right of way management and transmission corridor planning.
The utility industry increasingly uses GIS technology and parcel boundary data to improve customer service, reduce costs and meet regulatory requirements. iFactor’s Web Maps Connector product makes it easy to integrate geospatial data and aerial imagery into existing Smallworld-based applications by employing leading web services such as ParcelStream™. With Web Maps Connector and ParcelStream™ utility users can easily add a parcel boundary layer, retrieve detailed parcel information and access related data sets.
“The integration of ParcelStream with Web Maps Connector allows Smallworld users to increase the value of their data, reduce maintenance costs, and even leverage the investment in Smallworld with additional users in the enterprise,” said Brad Sileo, Vice President of business development at iFactor Consulting. “This new offering with Digital Map Products helps us continue to expand our solution as we work to help utilities get out of the landbase data maintenance business.”
Digital Map Products has one of the largest parcel boundary data collections in the US, with over 110 million parcels covering virtually all cities population 100,000 or greater. ParcelStream™ bundles access to this nationwide parcel boundary data with mapping display technologies so software developers and integrators can easily incorporate parcels into their applications. Through Digital Map Products’ partner program companies can harness DMP’s leading spatial technology and data to enhance their offerings and generate new revenue opportunities.
“The utility industry, like many other sectors, relies heavily on GIS technology and geospatial data to increase operational efficiency and strengthen organizational decision making,” Digital Map Products CEO Jim Skurzynski said. “Parcel boundary data is a key component in this equation and we’re excited to partner with iFactor to make this valuable data set more accessible to GE Smallworld users and the utility industry as a whole.”
For more information about ParcelStream™ for the utility industry or Digital Map Products’ partnering opportunities, visit: www.digmap.com/Info/ParcelStreamPartner.html
Digital Map Products is a leading provider of web-enabled spatial solutions that bring the power of spatial technology to mainstream business, government and consumer applications. SpatialStream™, the company’s SaaS spatial development platform, enables the rapid development of spatial applications. Its ParcelStream™ web service is powering national real estate websites with millions of hits per hour. LandVision™ and CityGIS™ are embedded GIS solutions for real estate and local government. To learn more, visit http://www.digmap.com.
Colorado Springs Utilities recently purchased iFactor’s industry leading Storm Center product to fulfill its internal outage communications needs. The Storm Center implementation will provide a platform for delivering outage information to internal consumers using interactive web applications built on Microsoft Bing Maps. The product will be delivered using a hosted deployment, providing Springs Utilities with a completely managed solution including servers, network connectivity, and software deployment and support. Storm Center will use standard web services to interface with Springs Utilities’ OMS data, and will display the information graphically using both a polygon thematic layer and a location point layer. Using Storm Center to provide widespread visibility into the real-time OMS data will improve operational awareness throughout the utility, improving decision making and communications from dispatch out through customer service, field operations, and executive management.
Colorado Springs Utilities (www.csu.org) employs more than 1,800 people and provides electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services to the growing Pikes Peak region of Colorado. Springs Utilities’ service area spans 500 square miles and encompasses residential, industrial, commercial and military/government customers.
