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Comprehensive Utility Network Design
- Organizes and checks facility data according to industry construction standards, widely accepted engineering analysis methodologies, and company-defined business practices
- Interfaces with work management systems to streamline the process of managing projects from inception to completion
- Fully integrated with Bentley Water, a utility GIS based on MicroStation
- Retrieves and submits work requests in batch mode or as scheduled events
- Allows definition of default attributes at both a global and feature level, increasing productivity
- Controls graphic layout offsets, conductor annotations, and other placement settings through global defaults
- Automatically assigns compatible units to features
- Builds special compatible and macro units
- Easily compares the costs of multiple designs
- Allows users to modify the work details of a design to allow for extra labor and materials
- Provides for adding comments and leader lines to the graphic design to assist construction crews
- Generates bills of materials, cost estimates, and other reports
- Creates construction drawings using built-in or custom plotting templates
- Saves designs as templates for reuse with similar jobs
- Allows users to relocate and replace existing features while automatically preserving connectivity
- Automatically updates spatial and WMS databases throughout the design process
- Creates designs in a point and span mode whether you have a connection to a GIS or not
- Creates designs in the field or in the office with the same user interface, features, and ease of use
Open Architecture
- Operates on multiple geospatial platforms, including field data-capture systems, without any sacrifice in functionality
- Deploys easily with legacy systems as well as third party business solutions across the enterprise
- Adheres to Open GIS Interoperability Specification (OGC) standards
Intuitive Interface
- Adheres fully to Windows™ application standards
- Lets users customize the way information is displayed as well as the toolbars, shortcuts, and other navigational tools
- Design Assistant makes designing easy—users drag and drop objects into a design and get automatic compatible unit assignment as well as continuously updated cost information
Workload Management
- Workplace Today, a powerful and configurable data organizer, provides intuitive lists for the user’s pending, past-due, and in progress work, and can also be tailored to the user’s preferences
- Tracks the timelines of each project and shows which ones need attention
- Calculates the duration of each project and stores notes about project details
Multiple Design Formats
- Lets users produce designs that are separate from work requests
- Lets users create designs in three different formats: GIS, Offline, and Template
Drag and Drop Placement
- Provides handy catalogs of features and units (macro, compatible and material)
- Lets users select a feature from the catalog and drag it to the desired work location, including the path level
- Automatically adds the feature if the resulting configuration complies with the current business rules
Dynamic Cost Estimates
- Provides real-time cost estimates for a design as you create it
- Continuously calculates and displays the estimated cost of all labor, materials, and equipment at each work location and for the entire design
- Provides instant detailed cost breakdowns via integrated report generation using Seagate Crystal Reports™
Built-In Data Model
- Provides a built-in framework for organizing and manipulating data structures that utility companies use most often in modeling their networks
- Can be easily modified to fit a company’s business processes
Integrated Work Management
- Manages work requests and designs in either a standalone mode or in combination with your Work Management System
- Provides seamless integration with an external Work Management System (WMS)
- Supports the most widely used WMS products on the market today
- Keeps track of the life-cycle status and scheduled due date of every job as it progresses from initiation through completion
- Treats work requests and designs as discrete data sets and stores them in separate folders
- Lets users quickly link several designs to a work request to evaluate different construction scenarios before selecting the final design for Implementation
- Provides access to a design (and its facility, unit, and cost data) from the work request
- Lets users find information faster and organize it in different ways for viewing—by due date, project type, work request name, customer name, and more
- Automatically replaces old designs with the finalized design and work request
- Updates the main geospatial environment in a single operation to incorporate as-built data
Geospatial Format
- Work in your choice of GIS environments for designs containing spatial data from the spatial database, such as coordinates of work locations and other geometry
Offline Format
- Provides design capabilities while working in the field without a network connection
- Transfers offline facilities into the geospatial system when you point to their locations
- Lets users switch back and forth between offline and geospatial formats as often as needed
Template Format
- Supports all basic design tasks, such as creating work locations, assigning features and compatible units, and generating cost estimates and bills of materials
- Contains information about work locations and work details
- Gathers coordinates from the geospatial system and applies them to the template’s work locations
Automated Layout
- Offers a comprehensive set of configurable tools for laying out features quickly, efficiently, and consistently
- Employs powerful placement logic based on mapping and construction standards as well as user-defined business rules
- Places valid combinations of multiple features and annotations in a single operation and lets the user temporarily suspend these placement rules
Construction Unit Defaults
- Supports unit data in the form of macro units, compatible units, and material units and offers a number of options for assigning units to the work locations of a design
- Enables users to accept the default unit that the company has set up for the selected feature, or lets them replace it with another standard unit
- Enables users to create customized compatible units to reflect a job’s extra costs; compatible unit data can be loaded and updated from an external system
Powerful Editing Tools
- Lets users make changes simultaneously to an entire group of features, even if the facilities are of different types.
Enables easy feature replacement with one click
- Provides tools for adding facilities and annotations at a single location
Standard and Custom Reporting
- Generates a wide variety of standard reports: cost estimates, cost comparisons, as-built comparisons, plant account reports, bills of materials (both major and minor), and design orders
- Compiles reports using Seagate Crystal Reports; templates can be easily customized, and information can be accessed with any Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) reporting tool
Data Validation
- Eliminates the need to enter data multiple times, reducing the chances for error
- Prevents many data error problems such as invalid facility connectivity and invalid data dependencies
- Supports configuration to automatically derive new feature data from existing features so that dependent data will always be inserted correctly the first time
Context-Sensitive Help
- Makes it easy to get quick answers to your questions about a wide array of features
- Includes “smart” topic headings, synchronized navigation and content panes, and an interactive table of contents and index
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