Unitil Selects Miner & Miner's ArcFM™ as its AM/FM/GIS
Utility implements solid GIS foundation to support enterprise endeavors
Fort Collins, CO -- Miner & Miner (M&M) is pleased to announce the addition of Unitil Corporation to its user community. Unitil Corporation is a public utility holding company providing electric and gas services to 110,000 accounts over 578 square miles, serving 37 communities in the Merrimack River Valley and Seacoast regions of New Hampshire and the North Central region of Massachusetts.
Utilizing a CAD-based mapping system for over ten years, Unitil decided to upgrade the current CAD system to a scalable platform capable of supporting their Enterprise GIS vision. Unitil's long-term strategic endeavor is to have an Enterprise GIS that will unify work processes and provide a spatial context for data from various systems, enabling end-users to make better, more efficient decisions in their daily work.
Unitil's internal GIS Initiative Team has lead the process of vendor assessment and selection of a core GIS platform to suit the changing needs of the utility. Its goals were to assist and direct in the process of selecting a third party software vendor to support the new GIS vision. A significant requirement was to accommodate the needs of gas and electric operations and perform various upgrades including the database model and the RDBMS to MS-SQL Server. Miner & Miner's ArcFM Solution technology was selected as the best choice for Unitil's short-term and long-term Enterprise GIS.
Implementing ArcFM will provide Unitil with the platform to make future operational improvements. The system will provide support for a multi-editing environment through versioning. Also, by feeding Unitil's electrical analysis package (Milsoft) directly from the GIS, the solution will provide current and historical views of system planning parameters. In the future, the design process will become more efficient by providing design analysis and work management tools in a common environment.
About Miner & Miner
Miner & Miner (M&M) is a world leader in the development and implementation of GIS software for utilities. M&M's 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 Unitil
Unitil is a public utility holding company with subsidiaries providing electric service in New Hampshire, electric and gas service in Massachusetts and energy services throughout the Northeast. Its subsidiaries include, Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company, Unitil Energy Systems, Inc., Unitil Power Corp., Unitil Realty Corp., Unitil Service Corp. and its unregulated business unit Unitil Resources, Inc. Usource L.L.C. is a subsidiary of Unitil Resources, Inc. The Usource product line of Internet-based energy brokering and related products and services is available at www.usourceonline.com.
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