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BY ROSS SMITH AND RUPEN MEHTA how to make the case for September 2010 How to Make the Case for Enterprise GIS By Ross Smith and Rupen Mehta February 2010 GIS Implementation: Seven Reasons for Failure and Seven Reasons for Success By Curt Hinton and David Holdstock April 2009 A Golden Opportunity: Geospatial Technology Helps a Colorado City Maximize Resources By Quint Pertzsch 24 enterprise gis a s GIS technology has matured, more organiza- tions have begun to apply its capabilities to improve the way they manage and use geospa- tial data. However, for many businesses, GIS use has grown organically through a period of time, with the outcome being disparate, disconnected GIS "islands" implemented in departmental silos. Typically, it's sim- ply the result of each department trying to solve a business problem within its own silo. Unfortunately, such disparate approaches fail to capitalize on the benefits of scale. They prohibit data sharing and cross-functional collaboration, which could lead to improved business performance. Instead, what evolves is a large amount of duplicate and inconsistent data resulting in the creation of potentially unreliable and occasionally misleading management information, resulting in costly and incorrect business decisions. So how can one department take an enterprise approach and make the case to other departments and senior management that investing in an enterprise approach would deliver improvements in business per- formance (i.e., win the "hearts and minds")? 24 G E O W O R L D / S E P T E M B E R 2 O 1 0 BY QUINT PERTZSCH A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY Geospatial Technology Helps a Colorado City Maximize Resources stormwater asset management and GIS. With limited resources, Golden successfully integrated GIS and stormwater asset management, showing real results with money saved, efficiency gained and business practices streamlined. The county seat of Jefferson County, Golden lies I approximately 10 miles west of Denver in the foot- hills of the Rocky Mountains. A population of 18,000 people lives in an area less than 10 square miles. The Public Works Department consists of nearly 50 employees, with one of those employees being the stormwater supervisor, while the GIS Department is made up of one person. Looking Back Prior to integrating stormwater infrastructure into a GIS, assets in the field were anyone's best guess. There wasn't a plan in place for inspecting assets such as inlets, manholes, outfalls, detention ponds or storm channels. Maintenance was done on an "as-needed" basis. Furthermore, city personnel didn't know how much stormwater activities cost to perform. There had to be a better and more efficient way to track data. The first step was to accurately locate existing and new features in the field, which was accomplished using GPS G E O W O R L D / A P R I L 2 O O 9 n tough economic times, organizations look for ways to do more with less—and do it well. The city of Golden, Colo., is no different in its approach to technology. Gathering what information could be found on old paper maps and plans, city personnel were trained to properly collect data in the field. Internal discussions determined what information was to be collected so it could easily be imported into the city's GIS. Golden had the good fortune of having a diminutive employee that would actually crawl up and down storm pipes to locate buried manholes, verify pipe size and confirm connection points. At the same time, initial asset inspections were completed, and digital pictures were taken of each feature. After collecting the data, information was imported into the city's GIS. A paper map book was designed to graphically show where all the known features were located, and updates to this map book were made frequently. Storm features then were put on an aggres- sive inspection and maintenance schedule, although all inspections at the time were done with pen and paper. With the integration into CartêGraph's StormView and WorkDirector asset-management system, seam- less integration among GIS and asset-management data became possible. Spatial and attribute data are maintained by the GIS, while historic and inspection information are maintained in the asset- management system. In addition, all activities done to any stormwater assets are tied to WorkDirector, the work-management portion of CartêGraph, so real costs can be determined. GeoWorld Services GeoWorld Online Visit GeoWorld at GeoPlace.com for online reviews, features, news, classified ads and event listings. 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