Leveraging Your GIS, Part 1: Achieving a Low-cost Enterprise Asset Management System

摘要

In a television advertisement for Dr. Scholl's foot massaging gel inserts, smiling customers with happy feet ask "Are you gellin'?" The question for utility managers is "Are you G-I-S-in'?" Properly investing in a complete geographic information system (GIS) with full functionality produces an overall reduction in operating and maintenance costs and will become the foundation of a lower-cost enterprise asset management system.