Today's electric utilities are already well versed in geographic information systems (GIS) architecture and implementation. As they are challenged with aging work forces and shrinking budgets, utility companies are now looking toward the future by investing in GIS 2.0 initiatives. The convergence of what GIS used to be - platform, schema, scalability, metadata - with what GIS now needs to be - agile, portable, easy-to-use, accurate - is "GIS 2.0." Gone are the days of protracted vendor selections, discussions on data models and build-outs of applications as vendor neutrality, data model consistency and a bevy of GIS freeware have tempered those needs considerably.
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