Miner & Miner to Embed Tadpole-Cartesia's ESRI-Based Synchronization Technology into its ArcFM™ and Designer™ Products
Miner & Miner and Tadpole-Cartesia combine in strategic business alliance, targeting improved workforce productivity and customer service in the worldwide utility market. Vendors team their best-of-breed technologies to deliver improved business-centric workflow solutions
Carlsbad (California) and Fort Collins (Colorado) –- Mobile GIS leader Tadpole-Cartesia, a software subsidiary of mobile computing and network infrastructure group Tadpole Technology plc (LSE:TAD), and Miner & Miner (M&M), a leading developer and implementer of ESRI technology for the world's utilities, today jointly announced a strategic business and technology alliance.
The alliance harnesses the best-of-breed technologies of each company with Tadpole’s ESRI-based mobile data and secure web collaboration technologies being integrated into M&M products in the form of modules that can be easily added into deployed solutions. The modules will seamlessly and securely extend a utility’s data and its data models and applications to the field, and also enhance the database access and synchronization between servers and remote or disconnected mobile users.
With the new solutions, utilities will be better armed to achieve further gains in field workforce productivity and deliver improved customer service within and beyond M&M's customer base of electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities. The bolt-on mobile solutions will also help M&M's customers to maximize their investments in GIS technology.
Under the terms of the alliance, M&M will embed Tadpole-Cartesia's ESRI-based mobile synchronization technology into its flagship products, ArcFM and Designer. ArcFM is a powerful collection of tools for managing, modeling, and editing facility and landbase data in an enterprise system. ArcFM comes with complete data architecture for defining feature behavior through one common, customizable methodology for the data model, data control, and interface. Designer provides an integrated environment for preparing construction work sketches, job cost estimates, and an automated means to update the baseline corporate GIS database. Designer supplies the design engineering functions and compatible unit data structures by interfacing with a work management/ERP system. It includes a variety of functions to optimize design including engineering calculations and automated layouts.
Also being embedded into M&M's next generation ArcFM and Designer products is Magi, the award-winning secure web collaboration technology from another of Tadpole's software companies, peer-to-peer leader Endeavors Technology, Inc. Magi overcomes utilities' concerns of unmanaged and insecure flow of critical information across their networks. Using Magi, mobile workforces can securely access, share and interact upon business-centic information from any location, using any device as a full “peer” on any communications network.
By embedding Tadpole’s data flow and Magi technologies into M&M's modules, utilities will be able to securely synchronize the bi-directional flow of information between multiple SDE servers and personal Geodatabases for the first time. The integration will be seamless and intuitive to the user, and will include an extensive set of tools to manage and administer data transactions. The key benefits of M&M's new add-on modules are twofold-network scalability, and security of bi-directional information flowing between corporate databases and devices throughout the utility.
“The integration of M&M's and Tadpole's market leading technologies made perfect business logic,” said Noam Arbel, Director of Software Architecture at Miner & Miner. “The strategic alliance further enhances our competitive edge and allows M&M to pass the benefits of enterprise mobile and distributed solutions to its global customer base.”
Mark Ketteman, Tadpole-Cartesia's general manager, adds: “Clearly, Tadpole-Cartesia is delighted to enter into this business alliance with such an established utility vendor as Miner & Miner and bring the full advantages of ESRI technology into the widespread field applications of its customers.”
About Miner & Miner
Miner & Miner (M&M) is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&M ArcFM Solution and extended services assist electric, gas, water, and wastewater utilities in increasing productivity, lowering costs, and improving services by allowing them to effectively manage spatial information. Founded in 1946 as a full-service electrical engineering firm, M&M has been a business partner of ESRI since 1987. This partnership has enabled M&M to become the world's leading developer of ArcGIS applications for the utility industry. M&M services include implementation and customization of software to fit the needs of individual utilities. For more information, please visit www.miner.com.
About ESRI
For more than 30 years, ESRI has been the leading developer of GIS software with more than 300,000 clients worldwide. ESRI also provides consulting, implementation, and technical support services. In addition to its headquarters in California, ESRI has regional offices throughout the United States, international distributors in more than 90 countries, and more than 1,400 business partners. ESRI's goal is to provide users with comprehensive tools to help them quickly and efficiently manage and use geographic information to make a real difference in the world around them. ESRI can be found on the Web at www.esri.com.
About Tadpole-Cartesia
Tadpole-Cartesia, a software business unit of Tadpole Technology plc (www.tadpole.com), is the leader in the deployment of enterprise-class mobile information systems in the world's utilities, telecommunications and public service industries, and is the premier field solutions provider for ESRI-based technology. In addition to ESRI-based solutions, the company offers a unique range of mobile business solutions known under the Conic brand that support both Windows and Java platforms and open new vistas for better management and productivity of field workers, improve customer service, reduce operational costs, and enable user industries to fully capitalize their investments in corporate GIS and CAD data. Further information on Tadpole's businesses on 760-929-0992, +44 (0)1223 428200 (UK), or by email sales@tadpole.com.
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