The Digital Energy business is pleased to announce the release of the MapFrame™ FieldSmart Mobile Framework version 4.3.1.
The release includes the new MapFrame™ FieldSmart Configuration Environment (FCE) product, which provides the ability for partners and/or customers to construct, configure and deploy a FieldSmart solution. The FCE provides configuration access to nearly all FieldSmart features and greatly reduces the time required to deploy changes or an entire mobile solution to the field.
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PowerOn4.2 was released April 30, 2011 and adds to an already advanced set of outage management tools that not only add capabilities in the support of electric utilities in reducing the impact of electric service disruptions, but also provides interoperability and integration tools to leverage Smart Grid AMI investments and overall interoperability between PowerOn OMS and other GE asset and control software products..
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Smallworld™ GeoSpatial Analysis is an exciting and easy to use business intelligence product, which was first released in 2010. An integral part of the Smallworld product suite, GeoSpatial Analysis offers efficient access to data from distinct distributed spatial and non-spatial systems.
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The GE Energy Smallworld Services team offers a solution to proactively manage and improve system performance, using an admin console and a suite of monitoring tools.
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GE Energy announced April 28 the Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment solution—GE’s next step to strengthening the value of Smallworld solutions for customers operating in the new telecommunications industry landscape. An integral part of GE’s Smallworld Network Inventory portfolio, the Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment solution takes a customer service request and assigns the required physical resources needed to support that request. This enables network operators to increase ‘first-time turn up’ of service, reduce cost of installation failures and improve quality of service.
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GE Energy announced in February the release of the Smallworld™ Enterprise Gateway solution. This new software product enables users of GE’s geospatial solutions to directly use Smallworld data for applications operating on Oracle® Spatial technology.
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Recent reports from two of the leading, independent market analysts once again forecast that GE Energy is the market leader for geospatial solutions for the utility and telecommunications sector.
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John Turner, GE Energy Product Line Leader for Smallworld telecommunications solutions, recently co-hosted a webinar on “Finding the ROI in Your GIS” sponsored by Directions Magazine.
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It is estimated that the cost of building a FTTH network is ~$1,000 per home passed, of which 5% of this cost is for network planning and documentation. With ~70% savings being realized by users of FTTH geospatial planning tools, this equates to savings of ~$35 per home passed -- a saving of ~$3.5M for 100,000 homes passed network.
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"While GIS can still be useful as a toolkit, there is more reason to deliver a business solution, configure it, and start attaining ROI”, says Andy Gay, GE Energy Product Line Leader for Smallworld utilities solutions. This paper discusses how one can combine technologies, greatly streamline implementation, support end-to-end business processes – and jet-fuel a return on investment for the buyer
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GE plans to help drive the development of international standards for geospatial technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and mobile workforce applications. The Consortium’s Principal Members can exercise authority over the development, release and adoption of OGC standards through their voting rights in the OGC Planning Committee. They are also an integral player in the forward thinking strategy of the consortium and provide valuable industry expertise to support this role.
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GE Energy Cambridge office was awarded the RoSPA Gold Medal (5 consecutive Golds) Award for Occupational Health and Safety.
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Thank you to all who attended the MapFrame Users Conference in Dallas April 4-8. We hosted 97 attendees at the Westin Galleria for a week of sessions including a training class, a general session, a showcase exhibition, and a customer advisory board meeting.
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More than 850 people, representing 51 countries, descended upon the Austrian city of Salzburg between 10th and 12th May for the 2011 Digital Energy EMEAI Conference.
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GE Energy announced today the deployment of an integrated Smallworld and MapFrame solution at EPCOR Utilities, Inc. The GE software solution provides EPCOR with a single source of data and a consolidated record system that enables more timely and accurate updating of EPCOR’s mapping and drawing records for all areas within the Transmission & Distribution business – increasing overall productivity at the utility.
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Utility communications provide the backbone for intelligent energy grids of tomorrow. A comprehensive end-to-end network manager has long been desired by utilities to better capitalize on the installed equipment, help improve operational efficiency and lower the overall cost of ownership.
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One of the must see products of the Americas Smallworld Conference in Baltimore was Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis™(GSA). The product has been generating a lot of interest from customers and partners, and this was a great opportunity to showcase the application’s capabilities.
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GE Energy has announced the release 4.2 of the Smallworld™ Internet Application Server. This release focused on keeping current with technology and provides the following key features: Smallworld GeoSpatial Server as SIAS Middle tier, Additional Browser Support, Microsoft Silverlight® for Vector Graphics.
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SSE Telecoms is using Smallworld Network Inventory to manage their physical and logical network records covering their UK-wide fibre optic network, improving the efficiency, accuracy and delivery of services.
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GE Energy has won a Smallworld Electric Office license order from PowerTech IST for NamPower in Namibia.
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GE Energy has made significant changes in its commercial team structure that are improving customer satisfaction in many ways...
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GE Energy’s Martin Ansell welcomed members of the trade press to the Innovation Centre at Cambridge, UK, on January 26. Journalists learned how Smallworld GIS software is being used to plan the integration of renewable generation, improve workforce productivity, and manage network assets.
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GE Energy's new Smallworld™ platform products release 4.2 for GeoSpatial solutions are available now. This latest release further improves end user productivity and helps to optimize key business processes with a rich suite of additional functional components and feature enhancements.
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One of the must see products of the Americas Smallworld Conference in Baltimore was Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis™ (GSA). The product has been generating a lot of interest from customers and partners, and this was a great opportunity to showcase the application’s capabilities.
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GE Energy has announced the release of Smallworld Gas Distribution Office™ and Smallworld Global Transmission Office™ – versions 4.2. The applications are part of a suite of solutions with a comprehensive global data model for the management of assets in the gas distribution and pipeline transmission network. GE’s Smallworld Gas Distribution Office and Smallworld Global Transmission Office software includes core GIS technology, giving customers a one-stop solution for their needs.
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Smallworld GeoSpatial Server™ adds a SOA-enabling platform for system integration and Business Process Integration to the proven Smallworld™ technology and application portfolio.
SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) allows our customers to create new applications on top of existing enterprise solutions, increasing the value of their current systems and automating new processes.
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SSE Telecoms, the telecoms business of Scottish and Southern Energy, has selected GE’s Smallworld Network Inventory solution as their asset management system.
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Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM - September 15, 2010. GE (NYSE: GE) and Swisscom have completed a complex, four-year project to upgrade Swisscom’s physical network records, management and planning capabilities with the planning tool for the access network project (PTA). The solution increased the reliability, accuracy and flexibility behind one of Swisscom’s most important communications assets: the nationwide access network for legacy and IP-based services such as voice, internet and digital television to consumers across Switzerland.
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Xcel Energy is a fully regulated provider of electricity and natural gas in 8 Western and Midwestern states, with revenue of more than $9 billion annually. It provides energy-related products and services to 3.4 million electricity customers and 1.9 million natural gas customers.
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At Southern California Edison (SCE) ITS Informationstechnik Service GmbH (ITS) was subcontracted by General Electric
(GE) to implement the integration of SAP PM with the Smallworld GIS. The main part of the backend integration is the
synchronization of asset data updates from SAP to the GIS. The connectivity of substations on the circuit level is synchronized
in the opposite direction from GIS to SAP. Some of this information is also sent to a third system via SAP PI.
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In May of this year, GE Energy wrapped up its first round of Voice-of-Customer (VOC) sessions aimed specifically at Smart Grid. The purpose of the sessions were to engage our customers in discussions around Smart Grid and the technology, applications, and solutions that they perceive they will need to meet the unique demands Smart Grid is placing upon the utility.
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The GE Energy Mobile Solutions team in Dallas, Texas has successfully completed their move to a new office facility just 3 miles north in the Addison area. The new office is 50% larger and has space for growth. It boasts a dedicated room with interactive whiteboard for Factory Acceptance Testing and customer training and two dedicated product development innovation rooms, also called scrum rooms.
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Bharti Airtel Limited is a leading emerging market telecom services provider with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa. Bharti Airtel’s implementation of their ‘Unified GIS’ (UGIS) system has been recognized by PCQuest with an award for ‘Overall Best IT project’ as one of their ‘Best IT implementations of the Year 2010’.
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GE hosted approximately 350 attendees at the Hilton Baltimore for a full week of sessions including 9 user exchanges, customer advisory council meetings, 5 technical training courses, and 16 workshops. Keynote presentations from Nick Sinai with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Michael Butts with Baltimore Gas & Electric were very informative and thought provoking.
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The 2010 Smallworld™ User Group conferences were held successfully in August in Brisbane, Australia, and Wellington, New Zealand. Delegate numbers of 83 attended the Brisbane event and 50 in Wellington, with this year’s events having a new ‘Interest Group’ agenda segment on day 2 of the conference.
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Tuesday October 5th saw the arrival of 60+ customers, partners and prospects to the Smallworld™ Headquarters in Cambridge for the 3rd Smallworld UK and Ireland Open Day. Paul Stevenson, Smallworld Global Quality Leader, moderated this annual local event which provided a forum for all to receive updates on GE Energy business strategy, new product introductions, and customer successes in an informal setting.
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Over the years Smallworld™ has been very successful in BeNeLux. Across the region, 80% of the utilities and 90% of the Water distribution companies are using Smallworld for more than 14 years. To keep the Smallworld customers up to date, every year the Dutch GE Energy subsidiary organizes a Smallworld User Conference.
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A one-day meeting of the Smallworld™ user group was supported by GE Energy’s regional partner Multisoft and attracted more than 70 participants, including existing customers such as HEP, HT, and the Zagreb municipal cadastre office as well as potential users from different organizations.
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The 5th annual Scandinavian Smallworld™ User Conference was held in Oslo, Norway, on September 23-24, 2010. More than 50 attendees from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden joined the conference. Amongst the customers attending were utility and telecoms operators from these countries including Trønderenergi(NO), Lier Everk(NO), København Energi(DK), Canal Digital(NO), Get(NO), Syd Energi(DK), Skagerak Fibernett(NO), and Ventelo(NO).
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The Western Regional Gas Conference (WRGC) is organized by the Arizona Utility Group. Their mission is to educate, train, and provide a forum for the exchange of information for and between natural gas companies and their associated industry memberships, consultants, manufacturers, and vendors.
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The FTTH Council held its annual North American Conference at the opulent Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in shiny Las Vegas on September 12th to 16th, 2010. It’s not often that one’s hotel room has 3 HD flat screens, steps leading down to the lounge/office area, and a view of a pirate ship attack complete with advanced pyrotechnics directly across the street!
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GE Energy held our 14th Smallworld European Users Conference in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, on March 3-5. The event was our most successful yet with more than 400 attendees from 43 countries. Attendees shared best practices and enjoyed great customer stories from regional and global customers.
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The Smallworld GeoSpatial Server* version 4.1.2 released in April 2010 adds an SOA-enabling platform for system integration and Business Process Integration to the proven Smallworld* technology and application portfolio.
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GE has recently implemented MapFrame* Mobile Solutions at SaskPower as part of their Service Delivery Renewal Program. MapFrame solutions will serve as the foundation for automating the Canadian utility’s entire field workforce.
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Small utilities are exposed, more or less, to the same challenges as larger utilities: increasing return on investment (ROI), reducing total cost of ownership (TCO), and improving overall operation efficiency while meeting regulatory requirements.
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The Smallworld GeoSpatial Analysis product was experienced first hand at workshops for customers and partners at the SmallWorld German User Group. Demonstrations showcased some of it's applications, including spatial analysis, network capacity management, and asset investment planning.
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The Smallworld Design Manager™ engineering management product automates the plan, design, build and provision of service for electric, gas, water and telecommunications networks. Reflecting customer needs, GE has released a new licensing scheme of our Smallworld Design Manager product.
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At the Smallworld European User Conference in March, GE Energy announced the development of a new product in the Smallworld Network Inventory™ portfolio called Smallworld Physical Resource Assignment™ (PRA). The product is focused on accelerating the prequalification and assignment of the physical network to support delivery of services.
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In November 2009, GE Energy announced the release of its new Smallworld FTTH module, based on the Smallworld Physical Network Inventory™ product. The focus of this module is to accelerate the rollout of FTTH networks by automating the network design process.
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Visit the new, fully integrated Digital Energy website - a dedicated web portable to access Smallworld and MapFrame information, as well as the latest Digital Energy news and Smart Grid technology innovations.
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ARC Advisory Group, a leading global research and advisory firm, has extended its’ coverage of industries and infrastructure to incorporate the GeoSpatial information systems market.
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The University of Waterloo launched North America's first school focusing an environmentally responsible business and development with more than $23 million in donations.
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GE Energy has recently become a member of the Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Councils in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North America. The FTTH Councils are non-profit organizations established to help its members with planning, marketing, implementing, and managing FTTH solutions.
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GE Energy exhibited at the FTTH Conference in Lisbon on February 24-25, which was attended by more than 2,500 delegates from around the world. The conference focused on fiber as an enabler for new services and applications reflecting the theme ‘taking your life to new horizons’.
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