Bringing Order to Infrastructure Development

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Bringing Order to Infrastructure Development
Chris Palfreyman, Regional Director Africa
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Agenda

• Introduction to Bentley Systems
• Who are we?
• What are our Goals?
• Bringing order through The Four Pillars of GIS
• Reference Examples
• Summary and Questions

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Mission

• Put simply - Bentleys mission is to help improve
  the worlds infrastructure

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Serving Distributed Enterprises
Conceptual Design
Mechanical Design
Construction
Financing
Procurement
Project Management
SiteDesign
StructuralDesign
Fabrication
The business of infrastructure entails
distributed enterprises
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A Strong Global Company

• 23 years of growth and stability
• Over 2000 employees, 80 offices, 40 countries

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Goal

• ...provide your organization with a
  competitive edge whenever there is a decision to
  be made by managing all your content allowing
  you to create, manage, and publish the content to
  achieve your business goals and, most
  importantly, to bring control and consistency to
  business processes by individuals, across project
  teams and departments

...provide your organization with a
competitive edge whenever there is a decision to
be made by managing all your content
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Is your organization structured?

• HOW much time does searching for the right
  information take??

• 80 percent of business is conducted on
  unstructured information (Gartner Group).
• 85 percent of all data stored is held in an
  unstructured format (Butler Group).
• Unstructured data doubles every three months
  (Gartner Group).

Source DCI Portals, Collaboration and Content
Management conference in Miami, Zach Wahl from
the Project Performance Corporation
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Four pillars of GIS

• Federated Data Management
• Geospatial Managed Environment
• Interoperability
• Scalable architecture

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Federated Data Management

• Geospatial information is diverse and
  heterogeneous in nature
• Spans AEC, GIS, database, MicroSoft, and other
  forms
• The need to urgently locate both current and
  historical information is prevalent

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Federated Data Management

• Infrastructure assets are particularly difficult
  to manage
• Because of long lifecycles (50 - 75 years). The
  assets are constantly being worked and re-worked
  with increasingly smaller budgets and shorter
  lead times.
• Disaster Management and Terrorism Prevention have
  put increased requirements on infrastructure
  asset management.
• The most detailed information on the asset lives
  in the Design, i.e. the Documentation that was
  used to build it.
• Design Documentation is still overwhelmingly
  document based - Maps, Models, Drawings,
  Specifications, Schedules - and often dispersed.
• Spans AEC, GIS, database, Microsoft, and other
  forms

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Federated Data Management

• A paradigm shift
• A tool that spawned a change in the way people
  work everywhere
• Why spend time and money transforming
  information when you can index it and use it its
  native form?

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Federated Data Management

• One holistic lifecycle for Integrated Data
  Management
• Management and spatial indexing of (geo) file
  formats
• Storage of data in (enterprise) data stores
• Control over work processes

Detailed Asset Models / Documents
Database
Database
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Federated Data Management

• Continuous thread through entire work process

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Federated Data Management

• Supporting the entire Lifecycle
• Editing Data
• Technically advanced, high precision
  engineering solution for all departments in 2D
  and 3D (create, modify, analyse, plot, mobile
  management)
• Management of Data Applications
• Application data management to support the
  cooperation between departments (manage, archive,
  exchange, integrate, datastores, workflow
  management)
• Publishing/Use of Data
• Share (internal) and distribute (extern) of
  information by map plotserver and webtechnology

Detailed Asset Models / Documents
Database
Database
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Four pillars of GIS

• Federated Data Management
• Geospatial Managed Environment
• Interoperability
• Scalable architecture

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Geospatial Managed Environment

• An extension that adds spatial context to a
  managed environment
• Spatial indexing
• Projection management
• Query and locate
• Spatial display

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Geospatial Managed Environment

• Spatial Navigation

• Spatially Indexed Documents

• Background Map

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Spatially Indexed Documents
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Four pillars of GIS

• Federated Data Management
• Geospatial Managed Environment
• Interoperability
• Scalable architecture

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A Commitment to Interoperability
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Four pillars of GIS

• Federated Data Management
• Geospatial Managed Environment
• Interoperability
• Scalable architecture

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Scalable architecture

• Solutions from small to large
• Windows client (desktop)
• Technically advanced, high precision design and
  GIS solutions (2D and 3D) for use at desktop and
  tablet Pc's
• Client/server (file based)
• Geospatial data and workflow management at the
  server
• Database centric (two tier)
• Direct integration with data stores
• Multi-tier
• Integration with enterprise systems, data stores,
  plotservices, and web publishing applications

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Desktop Applications
DGN XFM Datastore
Water
Watewater
WaterGEMS
SewerGEMS
StormCAD
Land Management
Fiber
Coax
Gas
Electric
Inside Plant
MicroStation Map
local database
Geospatial Extension MicroStation
PowerMap
PowerMap Field
local Data store
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Client / server
Geospatial Server
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Client / server

• The Geospatial Server
• Digital Security
• Workflow
• Change Management
• Spatial Query
• Spatial Locate
• Database Integration
• Web Publishing
• All components, attributes and
• documents synchronised and
• Geospatially Managed!

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Client tier
DGN XFM Datastore
Cadastre
Map
local database
Geospatial Extension MicroStation
PowerMap
PowerMap Field
local Data store
Geospatial Server
Connectors
Middle tier
ESRI ArcSDE
EDMS
SAP
Enterprise data store
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Client tier
Vertical applications
Intranet
Internet
Water
Watewater
WaterGEMS
SewerGEMS
StormCAD
DGN XFM Datastore
Cadastre
Fiber
Coax
Copper
Electric
Inside Plant
Map
local database
Geospatial Extension MicroStation
PowerMap
PowerMap Field
Browser
local Data store
Web Publishing
Connectors
Middle tier
ESRI ArcSDE
SAP
raster
IDPR
DMS
Oracle spatial
Enterprise data store
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Client tier
Vertical applications
Intranet
Internet
Water
Watewater
WaterGEMS
SewerGEMS
StormCAD
DGN XFM Datastore
Cadastre
Fiber
Coax
Copper
Electric
Inside Plant
Map
local database
Geospatial Extension MicroStation
PowerMap
PowerMap Field
Browser
local Data store
Internet
Web Publishing
Connectors
Middle tier
ESRI ArcSDE
SAP
raster
IDPR
EDMS
Oracle spatial
Enterprise data store
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Client tier
Vertical applications
Intranet
Internet
Imaging
Hydro
Storm
Sewer
Water
WasteWater
Land Man.
Browser
Internet
Web Publishing
Connectors
Middle tier
ESRI ArcSDE
SAP
raster
IDPR
DMS
Oracle spatial
Enterprise data store
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Four pillars of GIS

• Federated Data Management
• Geospatial Managed Environment
• Interoperability
• Scalable architecture

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References

• U S Army Corps of Engineers
• AEM Torino

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US Army Corps of Engineers

• Objective
• Assemble a comprehensive set of data and
  information about the conditions before and after
  Hurricane Katrina, as well as a complete history
  of the construction and maintenance of the
  projects
• Fast facts
• The data repository has three main components
• unstructured data in SQL Server
• GIS data in an Oracle SDO database registered
  through ArcSDE
• large data sets such as Lidar and elevation
  models stored on a terabyte server with metadata
  and geospatial extents stored in Oracle SDO
• The Geospatial Server provided the overall data
  management functionality by integrating the data
  stored in the three components such that users
  may access all datasets from one central
  application without having to know which data is
  stored in which component.

We were able to effectively and efficiently store
and manage thousands of documents/datasets in
multiple formats and the metadata associated with
that data. The managed environment provided by
Bentleys ProjectWise was instrumental in meeting
the time constraints and volume of engineering
and scientific data required by the IPET.
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IPET Data Repository
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AEM Torino and Capitalizing on Workflow

• Project
• S.I.T. Project (Systema Informativo Territoriale)
• AEM Torino
• Objectives
• Use a central data store to help meet customer
  needs more effectively
• Improve production processes to offer new and
  improved services to customers
• Allow company personnel to retrieve customer
  information linked to the graphical
  representation of the network
• Publish data across the Internet and intranets,
  reducing paper documentation
• Fast facts
• One of Italys largest multi-utilities, serving
  the 900K residents of Turin
• Market forces required them to reduce costs,
  achieve operational excellence, and provide
  superior service at fair prices

• Created single-model solution for each of their
  networks electricity, district heating, gas
  services and optical fiber resulting in
• 20-30 savings in network design time
• an efficiency increase of 200 for external data
  delivery
• virtually eliminating printing and distribution
  of paper maps

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Market Deregulation
DISTRIBUTION
RETAIL
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The company - Business areas

• Power generation
• Distribution and sales to captive customers
• Trading and sales to eligible customers

• Heat generation and sale
• Gas distribution
• District heating

• OM district lighting traffic lights
• Electrical and thermal equipment
• in public buildings
• Global service

• Optical fibers
• Broad band networks
• Internet services

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Deregulation
CRM
CRM
The Connected World
The Disconnected World
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Workflow
CRM
Gather Customer Information, Maps, and Records
into Paper Work Package
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Customer Service and Operations

• Field Crews have real-time access to
• asset and work order information (ERP)
• customer information (CIS)
• location of network infrastructure (GITS)

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Results
This greatly reduces the amount of time it takes
for any user to access information and gives all
our users access to much more information than
they could access previously.

• Savings -
• Network design 20-30
• Information verification 70
• Information distribution 70
• Outage notification 50
• Requests for information 70

• With the new system theres no more need to
  insert and validate in the design environment all
  the information which already resides in SAP and
  CRM.

Ultimately, this means we can serve our
customers more effectively and increase the
volume of business we can handle.
Dr. Andrea Zampollo, S.I.T. Project Manager
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Goal

• ...provide your organization with a
  competitive edge whenever there is a decision to
  be made by managing all your content allowing
  you to create, manage, and publish the content to
  achieve your business goals and, most
  importantly, to bring control and consistency to
  business processes by individuals, across project
  teams and departments

...provide your organization with a
competitive edge whenever there is a decision to
be made by managing all your content
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Questions?