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What's New: Impress for GIS 2.1
March 22, 2007
11:00 AM Eastern
A new release of Impress for GIS is now available.
Join us for a 1 hour webinar and get a first hand look
at the new features of Impress for GIS 2.1 including:
- Access to unmapped SAP Technical Objects from
GIS
- Support for SAP's CCS Module
- Enhanced Reporting and Analysis
- Improved Asset Reconciliation
- Enhanced Work Management Processes
- Support for My SAP 2005 and MS SQL
2005
Learn More!
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Now!
Upcoming
Events
Impress will be participating
in the
following events. We hope to see you
there!
March
ESRI
Worldwide Business Partner Conference
Palm Springs, CA
March 19
ESRI's community of business partners is on the
forefront of the GIS solutions and enterprise
revolution. Join the GIS industry's cutting-edge
companies at the 2007 ESRI Business Partner
Conference (BPC) for three days that can
change the
future of your business.
TA Cook
Managing Projects Successfully Using SAP
Birmingham, UK
March 21-22
This international conference features
over ten best practice case studies from around the
World, looking at the areas of SAP PS, SAP xRPM and
SAP cProjects. Additionally, you will have the
opportunity to hear from an expert panel of speakers
who will share their experiences of SAP to support the
full process of Project and Portfolio
Management.
April
SAP-Centric
EAM Conference
Huntington Beach, CA
April 1-4
The third annual SAP-Centric EAM conference
features worldwide SAP Enterprise Asset
Management thought-leaders, subject-matter experts,
customer case-studies and the latest in technological
developments that provide solutions for the complex
EAM issues faced today. Relevant case study
presentations for Impress customers
and prospects include:
Executing Maintenance &
Planned
Outages: Lessons Learned
Presenter: Peter Hooper, New Brunswick Power
- Best Practices for Plant Shutdowns,
Turnarounds and Daily Maintenance
- How to efficiently integrate project plan
data from
third party contractors into shutdown plans
in SAP
- How cross department visibility helps
overall
direction
SAP-GIS Integration: Create Efficiency &
Elevate
Service Quality
Presenter: Mark Fois, Aquarion Water Company
- Realizing the value of consistent asset and
maintenance information across systems to
lower
operating costs, decrease service time, and
increase
overall efficiency
- Choosing the right integration solution
- Avoiding common mistakes during
implementation
May
NPRA Reliability &
Maintenance Conference
Houston, TX
May 22-25 NPRA speaks
for
the petrochemical and refining industries on
issues
important to their business. At the
Reliability and
Maintenance Conference and Expo,
presentations will
focus on improving reliability in the
refining and
petrochemical industry, covering topics such as
effective maintenance organization,
productivity,
equipment reliability, health and safety,
training,
environmental control, predictive/preventive
maintenance, maintenance and engineering
standards, inspection, procurement, and
innovative
reliability technology.
June
ESRI
International User Conference
San Diego, CA
June 18-22 The ESRI UC
is
the largest conference in the world devoted
to GIS.
Users from more than 120 countries come to learn
new skills, share information and discover best
practices and tips and tricks that they can
instantly
use.
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Greetings!
The March issue of the Impress Update focuses on
Impress for GIS, a solution that is quickly
gaining traction in the marketplace. Highlights of this
issue include Aquarion Water's
recent implementation, a new partnership between
Impress and Sitesa Group in Spain, as well as
details about the new features and enhancements of
the latest release of Impress for GIS.
The increased interest in Impress
for
GIS is a testament to the growing demand for
packaged integration applications.
P.S. Have a suggestion for the next newsletter? We
would love to hear from
you – Email
us!
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Product News
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Announcing Impress for GIS 2.1
We are excited to announce our latest GIS
release – available
immediately.
Impress for GIS
integrates SAP and GIS systems, enabling
customers
to increase productivity, improve customer
service and
enhance business analytics to make better
business
decisions.
Impress for GIS contains a
broad range of functionality supporting asset
data
management and maintenance and operations for
field
assets. Impress for GIS 2.1 introduces a map-based
browser that enables users to view and
manipulate
complex SAP asset structures comprised of both
mapped and unmapped assets. Users can now
traverse complex asset hierarchies, place
unmapped
objects on the map via drag-and-drop
placement, and
perform common work management processes on
both mapped and unmapped components.
Impress for GIS 2.1 also introduces new
capabilities to provide customer service and
maintenance departments with a clear picture of
device infrastructure, service consumption and
customer information by enabling map-based
access
to data stored in SAP’s IS-U/CCS (Customer
Care and
Service) module.
Impress continues to embrace standards to
ensure our solutions fit into enterprise
architectures by
introducing enhanced support for Service-oriented
architecture. Impress
for
GIS 2.1 provides out-of-the-box web services for
common Impress business processes that can be
consumed by composite applications like SAP
XI, and
the ability to provide any Impress process as
a web
service. Impress for GIS 2.1 also supports new
partner releases, including MySAP ERP 2005 and
MS SQL
2005.
View the press release.
Register for
a webinar to learn more.
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Partner Spotlight
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New Impress Partnership
Sitesa, the Spanish market leader in training and
know-how of ESRI technology, recently formalized a
partnership with Impress. Sitesa is part of Grupo EP,
a Spanish company that employs close to 2000
people and focuses mainly on the
Spanish and Latin American market. Sitesa,
headquartered in Madrid and having more than 15
years of experience in the industry and 80
professionals
on staff, specializes in system design, construction
and implementation of GIS systems. Sitesa will
partner with Impress on the successful integration of
ESRI ArcGIS and SAP with a focus on the Spanish
Market. For more information on partnering with
Impress, contact
us.
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Customer Spotlight
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Aquarion Water Company (AWC) Goes Live with
Impress for GIS 2.0
Aquarion
Water
Company and Impress successfully implemented
Impress for GIS 2.0 at AWC’s headquarters in
Bridgeport, CT.
AWC is one of the 10 largest investor-owned water
utilities in the US, serving 219,400 homes and
businesses, or approximately 677,000 people.
Impress worked with AWC and their partners to
integrate the ECC 6.0 SAP
PM module with Arc GIS 9.1.
As part of the implementation, Impress mapped six
GIS
layers and synchronized the data with SAP. Newly
implemented business processes now allow the
user
to create, edit and update SAP equipment and
functional locations from the GIS front end while
maintaining the information in both SAP
and ESRI. The system went Live on January 2nd,
2007 and AWC is planning on adding functionality
during a second phase planned for later this
year.
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Tips & Tricks
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Energy Policy Act Information
In August of 2005 the United States Congress
passed
the Energy Policy Act which changes the start and end
dates
of daylight saving time for the United States
starting in 2007. Clocks will
be set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of
March instead of the current first Sunday of April.
Clocks will be set back one hour on the first Sunday in
November, rather than the last Sunday of October.
This will make electronic clocks that had
pre-programmed dates for adjusting to daylight
saving
time obsolete and will require updates to computer
operating systems.
As a result, it may be necessary to install
relevant third-party patches to address the general
system clocks. Furthermore, be sure to check all
systems for time issues on the previous and new
DST
dates of March 11th, April 1st, October 28th and
November 4th.
Impress Software’s products will not be affected
directly by this change. However, if you prefer a more
pro-active approach to avoid any potential issues,
you may choose to suspend activity on all of your
systems during the period when DST starts or ends,
and then check the system time information before
commencing work.
Additional Resources:
*The Primavera knowledgebase requires a user ID
and password. Contact Primavera for additional
information.
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Customer Support Upgrades: Automatic Call Routing
In our continuing effort to improve the services offered
to our customers Impress has upgraded our 800
phone service to include automatic call routing to our
customer support centers in Europe and North
America.
Our customer support team can be reached using the
following phone numbers:
- North America: +1 (888) 444 1204
- Europe: +49 (0) 7000 IMPRESS (46 77 3 77)
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