Autodesk Geospatial Webcasts Series for Utilities

With the large numbers of retirements expected throughout the utility industry over the next few years, the industry needs tools that will assist and enable a much less experienced work force. To complicate matters, the industry is entering an era where refurbishment and replacement of existing infrastructure will be necessary, above and beyond the typical requirements of addressing new growth. Relative newcomers to the design process will have to achieve an even higher level of productivity. Autodesk Geospatial Solutions can help. Join us on this webcast for a look at how.

Are you using paper to communicate design information with your field force? Are you interested in better methods for communicating design information that can help minimize outdated or wrong information and reduce costly paper plots? Would you also like to capture field observations and construction changes digitally so they can be incorporated into asset management processes? Would you like to improve the information turnaround of your operations team when responding to outages? We'll walk you through the tools you can use to effectively disseminate information to all internal and external teams and to those in the field. Now you can have the right information in the hands of the right person at the right time for construction and maintenance projects or for response to network outages.

Is the infrastructure information you need scattered in too many locations and too many formats? Do you see the need for moving from file based data to a central repository? Have you been wondering how to take advantage of technology in a way that will simplify the move? We can show you how to turn your fragmented information sets into a streamlined data store that your organization can get real value from. And the maintenance of that information can also be greatly simplified so that it remains current and up-to-date. Join us for a look at Autodesk's capabilities with solutions that will make real improvements.

Is Mapping or GIS the bottleneck that your extended team needs to work through for access to the information needed for their jobs? Would self-service access speed up nearly all processes within your organization? Wondering how you assemble disparate information in an easily consumable way for non technical users? In this webcast, we'll explore new and low cost technologies that can help provide easy access of corporate information by all who require it.

Accessing, utilizing, and sharing earth imagery and other spatial data is easier than ever before. Accuracy is important with all data including imagery. From new neighborhood build-out to response to incidents, utilities are challenged with having accurate maps from which to work to improve the quality of the network asset data. Maps help to improve internal needs such as reporting, finance and decision analysis, and help to improve external needs such as restoring service to an area that has been affected by storms, natural disaster and other incidents. We'll discuss ways of accessing and working with locally stored imagery and web services such as web mapping services (WMS) and 3rd party web plug-ins.