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SpatialNews Press Release
SPATIALinfo completes successful GIS pilot for Exelon
Infrastructure Services subsidiary
(Denver, Colorado, January 9, 2001) -
SPATIALinfo, a leading developer of geo-spatial information technology solutions, today
announced that it had successfully completed on time and on budget, all aspects of an
enterprise GIS pilot solution for OSP Consultants Inc. of Sterling, VA, a subsidiary of
Exelon Infrastructure Services. The project involved implementing SPATIALinfo‘s
SPATIALnet™, SDM™ and SPATIALweb™ products, integrated with AutoCAD 2000®
and Autodesk MapGuide® as client solutions, and Microsoft SQL Server® as the
relational database.
“OSP Consultants was looking for a very flexible and open system which we could use
on various types of customer work,” says Mr. Jamie Wile, OSP Consultants’ Manager of
CAD/GIS Operations. “We performed a great deal of research into available GIS
technology before deciding that the SPATIALinfo solution was the type of system we
wished to test and develop, since it offered the most features and the most flexible
platform we had seen. We worked closely with SPATIALinfo through product
familiarization, project design, product configuration, implementation, and training, and
SPATIALinfo continued to assist throughout the pilot period.”
“The pilot solution met all our requirements and specifications, and I have found no
other company as dedicated to providing a product that is functional and fits the needs
of their clients. On every occasion SPATIALinfo was equal to the task. Because of the
way SPATIALinfo has structured its software we can very easily deliver data to a
customer without having to worry about bits of proprietary information that might get left
in some other system. Everything we put into the system comes directly out of the
database no matter which format we want to deliver in, or which application we want to
interact with. Exelon Infrastructure Services has been positioned to be more
competitive in the markets we are pursuing, and the project has been a huge success,”
says Mr Wile.
According to Wes Clain, US Vice President of Business Development for SPATIALinfo,
“OSP’s needs and directions are very typical of today’s industry - everyone wants a
system where you can change as the business dictates, not as a software vendor
dictates. SPATIALinfo’s approach to AM/FM/GIS is to enable the best component
software on the market to do a job of work, without having to re-learn new software, or
drastically change business processes. OSP wanted to keep using its AutoCAD and
Microsoft SQL Server investment, and to leverage that investment through the web, and
we can do the same for customers wanting to use Microstation® or Oracle, or
combinations of these. OSP’s choice of SPATIALinfo’s technology underscores the
data access and application integration power of the SPATIALnet, SDM and
SPATIALweb platforms.
The need to seamlessly support an enterprise repository such as SQL Server or Oracle,
as well as other legacy formats, represents reality for most organizations today. We are
pleased that our technology can serve their needs now and into the future and that OSP
will flexibly achieve their business goals with our solution.”
SPATIALnet is a comprehensive AM/FM/GIS application for capturing, editing and
displaying Telecommunications and Utility inside and outside plant networks, modeled
and stored in a relational database. SPATIALnet can integrate with a wide range of
other systems, for superior enterprise access to spatial data from all reaches of the
organization. SPATIALnet presently uses the AutoCAD 2000® client from Autodesk for
graphics manipulation and display, and can be readily integrated with other client
applications, such as Bentley’s Microstation. Database support currently includes
Oracle, and Microsoft® SQL Server.
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