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conducted objective external research on each vendor considered, including a consideration of its history, its technology roadmap, its research and development commitment, its market share, and its stability as a continuing company. It was important to the team and Jackson Energy to ensure we were choosing the vendor that would meet current and future needs. We needed a vendor committed to research and development of software for the utility industry. After all our evaluation, the ArcFM™ Solution from Telvent Miner & Miner – which adds out-of-the-box functionality to ESRI ArcGIS® – garnered 100 percent buy-in from our team. Scott Dahlstrom, JEA’s senior manager of business analysis and one of the user champions on our GIS project team, summed up our conclusion: “Our thorough investigation was driven by the desire to have a system that met our functionality requirements and be as close to out-of-the-box as possible. We also confirmed the established business partner relationship between ESRI and TM&M.” JEA now is working with Telvent Miner & Miner to implement ArcFM in phases. Phase I, targeted for completion in the first quarter of 2009, involves TM&M writing the migration and conversion for gas, water and wastewater, with some mobile viewing capability rolled out for these businesses. Our IT technical lead is spending approximately 80 percent of his time creating the five data models. Phase II, scheduled to start before the end of March 2009, will include the ArcFM Solution for electric, including the Responder application to replace our current outage management system, and ArcFM Fiber Manager fiber optic solution for telecommunications services. Phase III will be a final rollout of the ArcFM Mobile Viewer with Redliner extension for field redlining and sketching functionality. By the end of 2009, we anticipate six editors and about 100 viewers, including mobile field users, customer service representatives, the casual query user, and executive staff. Making the decision to integrate the data models of five utilities into one enterprise www.APPAnet.org GIS at Jackson Energy Authority required many months of commitment from every member of our project team. While it might not be typical for a utility to include field and construction representatives in a GIS migration project, we are convinced their participation brought a deeper insight to system needs and helped establish a team approach for a group as diversified as ours. As we progress in implementation, it becomes clearer that we selected the GIS solution that supports JEA’s mission of “creating value for our customers and community” – because it will help us control our costs while continuing to provide an exceptional level of service to our customers. ❚ Teresa Irvine is project manager and lead and Jon Taylor is project technical lead in the Information Technology Department, at Jackson Energy Authority. Delivered Do 50 major utilities know something you don’t know? Like you, they had their pick of consultants. But siting and other development rm that could deliver the whole generation package. HDR Owner’s Engineers have helped public and private utilities throughout the US and Canada create total generation solutions through the multidisciplinary expertise of rm. From water and environmental to transportation and power delivery solutions, we deliver a bigger picture. Contact us, and see what owners of coal, gas, nuclear and renewable energy have been able to achieve. energy@hdrinc.com www.hdrinc.com NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2008 25 http://www.hdrinc.com http://www.APPAnet.org

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Public Power - November 2008 Contents Perspective 10 Questions Capturing Knowledge Before It Retires Jackson’s GIS Search Keeping a Job Journal Japan Tackles the Kyoto Protocol Getting to 20 by 10 Damless Hydro Power Earthquake: The Hidden Disaster For Engineers Safety For Governing Boards DEED Hometown Connections Parting Shot

Public Power - November 2008

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