Innovyze Releases InfoMaster Generation V3.5, Key to Operational Excellence and Business Productivity

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Innovyze Releases InfoMaster Generation V3.5, Key to Operational Excellence and Business Productivity

Latest Version of Industry-Leading GIS-Centric Asset Integrity Management and Capital Planning Solution Enables Powerful, Incisive Water and Sewer Systems Analysis

Broomfield, Colorado, USA, July 30, 2013 — Innovyze, a leading global innovator of business analytics software and technologies for smart wet infrastructure, today introduced InfoMaster Generation V3.5, with new and improved analysis and reporting applications. NASSCO PACP, MACP and LACP V6.0 certified, the new version features complete Business Risk Exposure (BRE) redundancy calculation derived from sophisticated graph-theoretical loop generation algorithms, expanded data support for NASSCO LACP, extended risk analysis assessment encompassing all infrastructure types as well as any combination of multiple consequence and likelihood of failure parameters, comprehensive color-coded thematic mapping and generation of detailed HTML and Crystal customized reports. Globally, aging water and wastewater infrastructures are rapidly deteriorating and sometimes failing — with dire potential human, environmental and financial consequences. As this process continues, the importance of effective asset integrity management increases. Maintaining water and sewer assets in fit-for-purpose condition throughout their target lifespan is a primary goal for utilities worldwide. The InfoMaster product suite gives utilities critical insight into all enterprise assets, their conditions and work processes, facilitating significantly better planning and control. It lets them use information and analytics in new ways to drive higher productivity and quality while managing costs and increasing operational flexibility. Available exclusively for the Esri (Redlands, CA) ArcGIS 10.x platform, V3.5 includes components to run on desktop, web, tablet, and smartphone environments. With its “out-of-the-box” approach to geospatial wet infrastructure asset management — a distinct point of differentiation from traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions — InfoMaster revolutionizes business analytics and optimization (BAO) for water and wastewater utilities. While the typical enterprise software deployment requires a 12- to 18-month implementation cycle, InfoMaster can be deployed in just a day to a few weeks — giving small to medium sized utilities the first-ever opportunity to optimize network management at very low cost. Where other ERP systems are focused on electronic records management, InfoMaster is built from the ground up to provide superior business analytics and modeling capabilities. It marks the first time utilities have been able to manage and control the flow of both data and water for better, faster and more accurate decision making. Because InfoMaster data can be organized by project, a single BAO package can be used by both the utility and its engineering consultants — providing enormous flexibility in managing data for multiple utilities. With InfoMaster, a utility can manage its entire underground infrastructure directly from the Esri geodatabase to deliver unmatched engineering productivity and network performance. Because any analysis is only as strong as its underlying data, InfoMaster includes direct support for gravity pipes, force mains, manholes, laterals, pump stations, closed circuit television (CCTV) inspections, manhole inspections, smoke testing, customer incidents, and other field activities. Data can be read directly from an enterprise geodatabase; imported or linked to third-party ERP systems; or entered directly through the desktop, Web, or companion smartphone or tablet applications. (CCTV acceptance inspection of sewers is standard practice in the U.S. and Australia. The PACP, MACP and LACP programs of the US National Association of Sewer Service Companies (NASSCO) and the Conduit Inspection Reporting Code of Australia WSA05, published by the Australian Water Services Association, provide guidance to utilities in determining the acceptability of sewer defects and features.) InfoMaster analysis tools are unparalleled in the industry, giving utilities the ability to validate and then “slice and dice” virtually any piece of data. Armed with clean data, they can then use InfoMaster tools and wizards to move nimbly in optimizing operations. Among them are applications that can be used to establish a prioritized capital replacement plan based on sound condition assessment; reduce the number of “hotspot” cleaning activities by comparing current cleaning schedules to reported upstream blockage complaints; and overlay smoke testing defects reported in real time via an iPhone with Bing (Microsoft, Redmond, WA) aerial maps to facilitate identification of older houses with cross connections. “Preserving the integrity of water and sewer assets helps to ensure they remain available and reliable,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.D.NE, F.ASCE, President, COO and Chief Technical Officer for Innovyze. “Improving the likelihood of smoother operations with fewer interruptions — creating more uptime and less downtime — means more profits for the operation. InfoMaster combines ease of learning and use with a powerful, comprehensive set of graphical presentation tools and asset integrity management capabilities. These advantages help water and wastewater utilities exceed their operational quality standards by extending asset service life and overall reliability and performance, increasing return on investment.”