Developers: | General Electric (GE) |
Branches: | Power |
Technology: | GIS - Geographic information systems |
The market of geographic information systems (GIS) in the field of power industry dynamically develops. According to the report of ARC Advisory Group 2013, the cumulative annual average growth rate of this market is 7.5%, and the cumulative gain from 2013 to 2017 will exceed 43%.
A supplier of GIS for industrial application in the field of power industry is GE from market shares more than 30% (ARC Advisory Group 2013). Thanks to the functionality the product GE Smallworld Electric Office takes the leading positions among geographic information systems 20 years. More than 1000 clients – global and regional energy, telecommunication, gas transmission and distribution companies in the territory of 45 countries use the GIS Smallworld for creation of the corporate systems. More than 240 partners enter a global network of distribution of GE Smallworld worldwide. Potential clients of the GIS Smallworld Electric Office are the distribution grid companies, industrial enterprises focused on development of automation and optimization of technology processes – accounting, service and infrastructure management of the distributed technology networks in the field of power. The geographic information system of Smallworld Electric Office takes a key position in an IT landscape of the network company, allowing to consolidate space and passport data about extended objects of transmission lines of any class of tension in uniform topologically and electrically the connected model of network. Thanks to seamless integration with the systems of SAP, to CIM connectors to EMS/DMS/OMS/SCADA to systems, management systems for mobile resources and applications of calculation of the modes of network, the GE Smallworld Electric Office system provides economy of operating expenses of the network company on collecting, input, processing, updating and synchronization of data on network assets between IT systems.
In 2014 GE and Ensys Technologies signed the partnership agreement in the field of distribution and creation of geographic information systems for the electric grid companies based on the product Smallworld Electric Office. In May, 2015 Ensys Technologies raised the status of the partner to the Value Added Reseller level and received a number of privileges, including the status of the official representative of vendor in the territory of Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine with the rights of exclusive software supplier of Smallworld Electric Office for final customers and partners of GE. The current status expanded the rights of Ensys Technologies company to rendering technical support to end users to the 2nd level.
The project team of Ensys Technologies company is staff of the highly qualified specialists having profile education and who had additional professional training in specialized training center GE. Team members have 15 summer experience of creation of geographic information systems in power industry. Today specialists of GE and Ensys Technologies companies create the adapted demoversion of the product Smallworld Electric Office considering the Russian specifics. As a result of joint work of the GE and Ensys Technologies commands the product Smallworld Electric Office is localized and ready to application in the territory of the Russian Federation.