You’re invited: activeG-TRM Event – Nov 7 – Mesa, AZ

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Andy Stewart

Powering Up Maximo – Spatial and Process Strategies for Utility Asset Management


Are you attending the upcoming Fall 2011 Maximo Utility Working Group – MUWG meeting in Mesa, AZ – Nov. 7-9?

If so, then make the most of your travel day, Monday, Nov. 7 and join TRM and activeG for a FREE “Powering Up Maximo – Spatial and Process Strategies for Utility Asset Management” event – featuring TRM RulesManager and activeG’s MapEngine.  Or, if you can’t make the MUWG, just join us! 

Date: Monday November 7, 2011
Time: 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM MST (Add to my calendar)
Where: Mesa Arizona Convention Center, Bld A – Apache Room
263 N Center Street
Mesa, AZ 85201
(Driving Directions)
Register Now

This event brings together two powerful technologies that enable you to configure Maximo to best meet your business and technology requirements without customizing out-of-the-box Maximo.

RulesManager: dynamic business logic and user interface control

MapEngine: sophisticated spatial visualization leveraging multiple GIS data stores — much more than GIS integration
Leverage the power of RulesManager and MapEngine together! 

Together you get Powerful User, Applications and Data Security without the configuration challenges. 

Check out the most productive and lowest risk lifecycle configuration management paradigm for Maximo.  Join TRM and activeG on Nov. 7th!

Register Now!

We look forward to seeing you!  If you can’t make this event, contact us and we’ll do it virtually for you!

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activeG announces partnership with TRM

Posted on July 18, 2011 by activeG

activeG LLC announces a partnership agreement with Total Resource Management, Inc. (TRM) to further enhance and optimize TRM’s Asset and Operational Performance solutions with activeG’s world-class GIS expertise and spatial visualization software solutions. TRM will utilize activeG’s MapEngine software products to provide its clients with sophisticated spatial visualization capabilities using a flexible, agile, configuration paradigm. TRM’s business technology solutions leverage the world’s leading asset and service management platform — IBM Maximo, along with best practices for strategy, design, configuration, integration, organizational change management, training, performance and analytics.

“IBM’s Maximo Spatial and Linear Assets software applications provide excellent support for many of our client’s MAXIMO-ESRI GIS integration needs, however these products’ functionality can be greatly enhanced using the activeG MapEngine spatial visualization system.” says TRM Chairman & Chief Strategist Ray Brisbane. “The flexibility of embedding any spatial visualization component, using multiple spatial data stores, anywhere in Maximo, is exactly the functionality that our clients require to meet their objectives.”

“We are excited to be working closely with TRM. The emergence of powerful new spatial data technologies and the broad acceptance of IBM Maximo to manage land-based assets has reached a point of convergence”, explained Don Anderson, activeG’s Supreme Commander. “The measurable Return on Investment to improve asset and operational performance in the management of cities, utilities and transportation assets is quite impressive.”

TRM focuses on designing and optimizing Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and IT Service Management (ITSM) systems to help organizations optimize their asset and operational performance. TRM’s RulesManager software is the leading configuration and performance improvement system for IBM Maximo. An important part of the TRM-activeG partnership will be to help clients improve their asset and operational performance through effective integration of TRM’s RulesManager and activeG’s MapEngine software products.

“We are laser focused on providing capabilities that simplify and improve our client’s ability to configure and leverage Maximo to maximize their asset management performance. The key is to not only provide improved functionality, but to do it easily, rapidly, and in a method that does not introduce lifecycle management costs and risks” says TRM VP of Product Development, Al Johnson. “activeG and their MapEngine software adhere to those same principles for spatial visualization design and configuration.”

This partnership allows TRM to leverage activeG’s deep experience with geographic information systems, global positioning systems, and virtually any spatial data and spatial technology. This partnership also allows activeG to leverage TRM’s deep subject matter expertise in Maximo, utilities, and transportation asset management.

TRM Contact:
Liz Ruana
Director of Marketing
Total Resource Management
703-548-4285
www.trmnet.com
liz.ruana@trmnet.com		 activeG Contact:
Andy Stewart
Director of Business Development
activeG, LLC
(480) 610-0839
activeG.com
andy.stewart@activeg.com

About TRM
Total Resource Management (TRM) is focused on improving the asset and operational performance of organizations through the effective use of information technologies.  TRM is an IBM Premier Business Partner with over fifteen years’ experience delivering asset and service management solutions based upon IBM Maximo.  TRM supports clients across a wide range of industries, including government, defense, cities, facilities, energy, utilities, transportation and life sciences. TRM is based in Alexandria, Virginia and has business centers across the U.S.  For more information, visit www.trmnet.com or call (703) 548-4285

About activeG
Since 1992, activeG, LLC has been taking enterprises spatial by providing innovative, advanced spatial software solutions and services.  activeG MapEngine™ provides seamless integration between any enterprise GIS solution and IBM Maximo.
Based in Mesa, Arizona, activeG’s spatial experts help companies around the globe better manage their dispersed field assets through smart integration with GIS.  For more information, visit activeG.com or call (480) 610-0839.

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Plug ‘n’ Play

Posted on May 17, 2011 by activeG

Chances are you’re reading this because you’ve invested heavily in your GIS systems by building your own GIS-based web applications, and you’d love to maximize that investment inside Maximo.  MapEngine’s plug and play capability allows you to do just that.

For instance, your GIS team develops some cool, business-specific ArcGIS Server web applications.  By design, those applications have components, dialogs and web services (CDWS) that provide a common UI throughout the applications.  Your team then plugs those CDWS into MapEngine, giving the maps in Maximo the same look, feel, and interactions as your other applications (plays nice in Maximo).

With MapEngine, you can plug and play your homegrown ArcGIS web services and components in Maximo.

So go ahead, create your own map print web service with legend, compass, logo, etc.; set up a customer, address and point of interest map search dialog specific to your business; create other componentized business-specific GIS/map functionality in your GIS web applications—whatevs.

Maximize that GIS application investment by plugging it and playing it in Maximo with MapEngine™.

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Taking Your Enterprise Spatial

Posted on April 25, 2011 by activeG

The figure below illustrates how various services and data can be assembled together to get the best use of/ROI for your spatial data.  A variety of spatially-related data can be stored in one or more spatial stores within your organization.  This data can be accessed through spatial viewers both embedded in Maximo, and also viewed through separate stand-alone viewers such as Google Earth, Google Maps, Microsoft Bing Maps, etc.  Once the viewers are embedded into to Maximo/MapEngine, users can perform any asset-related transaction through the map interface.

Your EnterpriseThis configuration allows the customer the benefit of directly accessing asset and work-related GIS data while inside Maximo, and at the same time it provides a path for future growth when the need for accessing non-asset data via a map becomes important.

And if you’re a MapEngine user, it doesn’t matter where you store the data.  So whether your GIS data storage preference is Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE, SQL Server, flat files, or some other data warehouse,  MapEngine can deliver that data visually inside Maximo.

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Pulse 2011 Rewind

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Andy Stewart

Many thanks to all those who came out to visit us at Pulse 2011 in Las Vegas.  We enjoyed getting to meet all of you who stopped by the booth and we appreciated the opportunity to share info about activeG with you.

Amtrak's Bill Broughton gets the rock star treatment at the Pulse 2011 kickoff

activeG was proud to be a part of a couple of important events:

activeG participated in the first annual Maximo Rail Industry Summit, hosted by Amtrak’s Bill Broughton.  Thanks to the many companies and individuals who made the summit something worth attending.

Also, activeG’s MapEngine was featured as part of the Water/Wastewater Panel, where Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District’s Jason MacGill shared some new functionality called Measurement Recording.

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MapEngine Boosts Maximo User Efficiency with New Measurement Recording Capability

Posted on February 11, 2011 by activeG

As recently requested by customers, activeG announces delivery of new Measurement Recording (MR) capabilities for its MapEngine product.

MapEngine, the premier GIS integration for IBM Maximo, now offers users the ability to visualize assets being measured or inspected as never before.  MapEngine now gives companies the ability to enhance routine recording of maintenance and inspection results through an intuitive map-based interface.

Click on the links below for a quick MapEngine Measurement Recording demo (requires Flash):

Features

  • Expandable for any maintenance / inspection process:  Assign this capability to any maintenance or inspection process that requires collecting  measurements for Maximo assets, locations, or equipment.  Valve turning, sewer cleaning, pipeline inspections, or any other process – all of these can be individually configured to work with MapEngine’s Measurement Recording.
  • Keeps Maximo/GIS data in sync flexibly:  Lets you configure how measurements get posted and saved internally to Maximo or external databases like GIS.  For instance, a user needs to record how many turns a valve took to close.  MapEngine’s MR capability allows Maximo and GIS system administrators to define how this data gets posted to the asset specification and/or to the GIS feature.
  • Intuitive work flow: User gets a work flow tailored to their measurement recording needs, rather than a convoluted, general solution that’s less that optimal.

Benefits

  • Data integrity:  Users get visual feedback from the embedded GIS map when they input data into Maximo fields, ensuring the right data gets input for the right asset.
  • Efficiency: Users can record their measurement data more quickly thanks to the intuitive, optimized-to-task interface.

For more information, see the MapEngine webpage, or  contact an activeG representative today.

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MapEngine – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Posted on January 28, 2011 by activeG

Here’s a list of some of the most frequently asked questions about MapEngine. Continue reading →

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Flexibility is King

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Andy Stewart

I was with some friends recently who have a very flexible son.  He showed me his array of Gumby-like moves that would make most inflexible adults wince.  He reminded me how limber kids are—both figuratively and literally.  And in a world where things change quickly, flexibility is king for kids and for businesses. Continue reading →

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Phat Lines* – Linear Asset Management Demystified

Posted on August 8, 2010 by activeG

With or without Maximo Linear, MapEngine puts linear in reach.

For departments of transportation, rail companies, pipeline operators, water utilities using Maximo, it’s often necessary to generate a work order that covers portions of assets.  However, the work that needs to be done may not fit one-to-one with the segments drawn in GIS. This is where MapEngine helps, no matter if your company is using Maximo Linear or not.  Continue reading →

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