Montana-Dakota Utilities

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Montana-Dakota Utilities GIS
From linen to Linux

Kevin Alishouse, GIS Manager
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MDUs Story

• Before
• Centralized editing
• 13,000 linen and Mylar maps
• Data change
• Multiple map changes
• Changes to multiple maps
• After
• Editing at operations facilities 1X
• One continuous map of five state region
• Multiple views of same data

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How Did MDU Move to GIS?

• Application Selection
• Assistance
• Data Capture
• Landbase
• Facilities
• Training
• Deployment
• Backlog
• Upgrades Hardware, Database, Software

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GIS Deployment Schemes
50 Editors 250 Frequent Viewers 950 Potential
Viewers
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Citrix Demonstration
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Where is MDU Going with GIS?

• System Analysis/Optimization
• Regulatory Compliance
• Business Application Integration
• Outage Management
• Field Redlining

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Questions?
Kevin Alishouse, GIS Manager