BE Magazine - Volume 5, Issue 1 - (Page 29) GEOSPATIAL Before renovating its SAP and GIS system, the State Property Service had difficulty maximizing the value of its real estate. First, there was no association or integration of the administrative real estate data and the GIS data, which meant that cadastral parcels could not be readily associated with the administrative data. For example, drawings and paper files were used to determine lot sizes, square feet, and other important contractual terms. As a result, the data had to be linked manually as paper files, leading to potentially costly errors. Second, in the absence of being able to view parcels in a geospatial environment, it was hard to assess what was available for lease, rent, and sale since there was no automatic means to check whether conflicting contracts were associated with a particular parcel of land. The lack of a visual geospatial context for individual parcels also meant that it was hard to guarantee that an optimal price could be negotiated for the use of the land. For instance, it was hard to evaluate whether a parcel was in a high- or low-value area. Organizational challenges included the innovative character of the project, lack of long-term experience in the organization with GIS applications, and support of nonengineering, nonCAD users of SAP. Technical challenges included the quantity of cadastral objects (2.5 million parcels in vector format), visualization of geospatial objects and markup modification requests in an operational SAP system. They also included storage and management of all geospatial data, and implementation of a totally integrated geospatial PROJECT OVERVIEW Geospatially Enabling the Dutch State Property Service Organization Dutch Ministry of Finance BE Award Category Geospatial Innovation Project Objective Integrate SAP real estate data with Bentley GIS information to improve decision making and lower costs object workflow between front-end, mid-end, and back-end processes while being integrated into the existing SAP system. Maximizing return In 2003, the Dutch Ministry of Finance implemented SAP Real Estate, a system for managing the administrative side of the v The Dutch Ministry of Finance geospatially enabled its SAP system to perform GIS analysis Volume 5, Issue 1 | BE MAGAZINE 29
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