Autodesk

Autodesk helps utilities integrate, access and share infrastructure asset information, making it easier to handle customer requests and respond to outages more quickly. The company's solutions enable the integration of design and spatial data for enhanced access to information that can support decision analysis. Autodesk's innovative model-based, 2D and 3D mapping tools provide utility field service teams using Toughbook mobile computers with the most up-to-date and accurate spatial information, which helps improve efficiency, response times and customer satisfaction.

Website:

usa.autodesk.com

@Road, a Division of Trimble

@Road software products, running on Panasonic Toughbook® laptops, are designed to automate mobile resource management (MRM) and optimize the service delivery process. The company's MRM solutions provide traditional fleet tracking, fleet management and dispatch software tools. Advanced capabilities for utilities include the ability to view mobile workforce activities in real time, improve efficiency of routing and dispatching, enable efficient mobile workforce communication and streamline the management of vehicle maintenance. @Road's software solutions provide a secure, scalable and upgradeable enterprise-class platform that seamlessly connects utility workers in the field to corporate data on-demand.

Website:

www.road.com

CGI

CGI is a leading independent information technology and business process services firm specializing in the electric, gas and water utilities industry, with special expertise in automated meter reading technology. The company's solutions, in conjunction with Toughbook® mobile computers, connect control rooms and crews, enabling real time operations management, GIS, billing, CRM (customer relationship management), mobile workforce management and outage management. CGI provides end-to-end services including technology management, application management, business process services and consulting and systems integration services to help reduce operating expenses and improve productivity.

Website:

www.cgi.com

ESRI®

ESRI designs and develops leading geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS technology running on Toughbook® mobile computers give utility companies the ability to manage and analyze large amounts of location-based information. Utilities can optimize field staff territories and organize thousands of customer locations. ESRI employs more than 4,000 engineers, technicians and other specialists to ensure its technology remains at the forefront of the GIS industry and to meet the changing needs of the utilities industry.

Website:

www.esri.com

Har*GIS LLC

Har*GIS integrates mobile computing, enterprise applications, GIS and GPS technology with wireless communications to dramatically improve field force productivity. The TruckMap*™ product line running on Toughbook mobile computers is suitable for gas, electric, water and wastewater utilities. The software is scalable and offers various uses allowing easy integration of multiple data sources and applications onto a single platform. No programming or coding is needed to deploy TruckMap*™ to crews in the field.

Website:

www.har-gis.com

Sybase iAnywhere

Sybase iAnywhere® software solutions make mobile applications just as reliable, secure and accessible as those at headquarters. iAnywhere Suite is a scalable mobile software platform that addresses the converging IT requirements of today's utilities. iAnywhere allows organizations to integrate, extend and leverage investments in their existing IT infrastructure when developing a mobile strategy.iAnywhere's open, cross-platform solutions running on Toughbook mobile computers securely deliver information anytime, anywhere. It combines email/messaging, mobile device management, enterprise-to-edge security and back-office application extension capabilities to empower users to get the job done anywhere.

Website:

www.sybase.com/ianywhere

KorTerra

The KorTerra® product suite is the utilities industry's most comprehensive workforce management and damage prevention software solution. In use since 1990, it interfaces with almost every One Call Center located in the country and effectively manages on-time response, management reporting and positive response, while keeping track of team performance in a real time, paperless environment. The KorTerra product suite serves contract locators, utilities and municipalities of all sizes and includes dispatch, claims management system, billing, payroll, positive response and mobile modules that run on Toughbook mobile computers. KorTerra hosts the software on its servers, offering customers wireless access over the internet.

Website:

www.korterra.com

Logica

Logica understands that today's utilities are on the move and require information and equipment to be in the right place at the right time. Logica software running on Toughbook mobile computers is designed to give utilities a more accurate and detailed view of business operations. Logica's unique combination of experience, industry knowledge and global delivery capabilities transform utilities by helping them adopt advanced technologies including smart metering, geospatial information systems (GIS), radio frequency identification (RFID) and real time enterprise asset management.

Website:

www.logica.com

MapFrame™

MapFrame™ offers FieldSmart®, an innovative map-based software product with built-in automation tools used by many utilities. With a winning track record and 25,000 deployed end-users, FieldSmart is one of the strongest mapping and field automation solutions. It is designed to handle a diverse set of data types including customer maps, drawings, images, text descriptions and databases. FieldSmart applications also provide analytical capabilities such as calculating costs, generating material lists, using engineering calculations, and accessing reference materials at the job site using Toughbook laptops with embedded mobile broadband technology. MapFrame offers the versatility to configure its technology to meet any office or mobile viewing requirements, while retaining the robust capabilities for which FieldSmart is known.

Website:

www.mapframe.com

Oracle/SPL World Group

Oracle/SPL World Group® helps clients achieve a competitive advantage and excellence in business performance with software solutions specifically designed for the utilities market. The solutions run on Toughbook® mobile computers and encompass the full customer lifecycle, from prospect management, billing and customer care to quoting, credit and collections. SPL's technology for outage management and mobile workforce management provides a robust platform for managing residential, commercial and industrial customers in regulated and competitive markets, across multi-product service lines. SPL and its parent company, Oracle, offer complementary products with a shared focus on adaptive business processes and strive to deliver the most complete suite of end-to-end packaged revenue and operations management solutions for the unique needs of the utilities industry.

Website:

www.oracle.com

TerraGo Technologies

TerraGo Technologies provides mapping solutions to the utilities industry that, when installed on Toughbook® mobile computers, are designed to perform and deliver even under disaster conditions when utilities need them most. The company's GeoPDF and Map2PDF products leverage Adobe's portable document format (PDF) to generate and share up-to-date mapping data, including details on infrastructure, outages and current conditions between mobile workers and base operations. Maps are created using GIS software and then exported as a GeoPDF file using Map2PDF. GeoPDF files can be easily distributed, viewed and used by anyone with Adobe Acrobat Reader and the GeoPDF Toolbar, a free small-footprint plug-in. The GeoPDF geospatial data distribution and collaboration format helps utility workers effectively manage and maintain infrastructure, and also respond quickly and efficiently to emergency situations.

Website:

www.terragotech.com

Trimble Navigation

Trimble Navigation is a leading innovator of global positioning system (GPS) technology and work force automation for many industries, including utilities. Trimble technology revolutionizes work processes enabling more productive fleet management and field service. The company uses GPS, lasers, optical and inertial technologies, as well as wireless communications and application specific software on Toughbook® mobile computers to provide complete solutions that link positioning to productivity. Trimble's integrated solutions allow customers in 100 countries to collect, manage and analyze complex information faster and easier, making them more productive, efficient and profitable.

Website:

www.trimble.com

Ventyx (formerly MDSI Mobile Data Solutions)

Ventyx is one of the most trusted providers of mobile workforce management solutions. The company's field-proven flagship product, Advantex™, in conjunction with Toughbook® laptops, allows utilities to provide optimal service delivery while reducing costs and streamlining processes. Ventyx's unique approach to transforming traditional service functions enables companies to increase productivity and lower costs by improving asset performance, streamlining the supply chain, enhancing workforce efficiency and maximizing overall financial performance. The company's service delivery management strategy and software architecture synchronizes call center, workforce scheduling, dispatch, parts inventory, and sales and billing, while providing the visibility, information and control required to make decisions that benefit customers and the organization.

Website:

www.ventyx.com