SICAD UTILITIES products have been specifically designed with utility companies‘ business processes and procedures in mind. The product range includes end-user systems for:

• Electricity
• Gas
• Water
• Waste water
• District heating and
• Basemaps

They are used for capturing, updating, analyzing and presenting spatial and technical data, with the emphasis on:

• Evidence of resource location
• Provision of technical resource data
• Network planning and network expansion
• Service points
• Project planning and construction
• Maintenance and clearance of faults
• Distribution of information

Managing the flow of data from initial capture through to presentation of geographic and alphanumeric data is an essential element of the application tools. Needless to say, these key requirements are met on a multisector basis. Scalability from small to mid-sized companies through to large utility companies is a given. And the ability to integrate with business and technical applications is also assured thanks to the open modular design.
Workflow applications are used to handle business processes on an optimized and semi-automated basis. The economic objective is to:

• Cut throughput times
• Improve the ability to provide information on business processes
• Increase operating security

Incorporating SICAD-UT software into a utility company’s business processes achieves these objectives. A crucial factor is not only the level of the business processes but also the optimization of defined work processes, such as graphical capture of a service point. The system architecture and technical attributes of SICAD-UT products ensure that work processes are successfully supported. These include:

• Modular design with open communication interfaces enabling SICAD-UT to be used by workflow management systems
• Open database model in a standard relational database system for access by Microsoft® products and other tools
• Provision of all important interfaces in the Windows world through DLLs (Dynamic Link Libraries)
• User-configurable SICAD-UT interface for different types of application (evidence of location, initial capture, updating, maintenance, etc.)
• User-configurability as to whether a non-graphical attribute should be stored in the SICAD-UT database or in SAP

These attributes greatly facilitate integration of SICAD-UT products into company-wide IT systems. Isolated solutions and redundant data management are avoided. The NIS becomes the link between technical and commercial systems, emerging from the specialist existence of purely technical applications