FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KorTerra, Inc. and MapFrame Announce Participation in Underground Focus Live!
Minneapolis, MN – July 10th, 2003 – Strategic partners KorTerra, Inc. and MapFrame Corporation announced today their participation at Underground Focus Live! The two companies will showcase their software interface, exhibiting in side-by-side booths at the show July 23rd and July 24th.
Underground Focus Live! is based on the concept that through live demonstrations, underground infrastructure professionals are able to learn more about their industry in a real-site setting as opposed to a classroom or conference. This is the first time this event is taking place.
KorTerra, Inc. plans to have demonstrations of their KorTerra™ software in their booth. The KorTerra product suite is specific to the damage prevention and workforce management within the utility industry. Their software has many components including: ticket receiving, dispatch, claims management, billing, positive response and payroll. They will be demonstrating mapping capabilities the software has through integrated MapFrame functionality. Using the KorTerra/MapFrame interface, at a click of a button, a user is able to display electronic map data for a particular locate ticket.
“We are excited to be participating in an event of this nature,” said Chris Stendal, President, “Through our demonstrations, the attendees will be able not only to see how our software works, but also see the benefits of bringing electronic mapping together with the KorTerra software suite through our MapFrame interface.”
MapFrame’s FieldSmart software compresses and converts maps and data from core office systems – such as GIS, dispatch and work management – to the FieldSmart format. FieldSmart delivers this information to the field for immediate access to the latest mapping data. Throughout this event, MapFrame’s demonstrations will focus on using FieldSmart map viewing capabilities as a foundation for damage prevention initiatives.
“This is an opportunity to highlight FieldSmart’s capabilities in the environment for which it was designed: the field,” explained Ted Eynon, Vice President Sales & Marketing for MapFrame. “In addition to the KorTerra interface for spatially-based ticket receiving, we will demonstrate FieldSmart’s operational functionality for data collection, inspection, line locates and more.”
About Underground Focus Live
Underground Focus Live is an outdoor event based on the ideas of live
demonstration and practical application, UFL will be held July 23 & 24
in Manteno, IL on the Illinois Diversatech Campus. Underground
contractors, utility companies, municipalities, and engineers will all
be able to experience live demonstrations of a wide variety of product
and systems. Attendees will be invited to walk down actual city streets
where they will see utility locators, vacuum excavation crews,
horizontal drilling machines, high-tech GPS and GIS systems, cable
pulling derricks, sewer inspection systems, and much more. In addition
educational seminars will be offered on topics ranging from utility
locating to horizontal directional drilling. Admission is $25.00 at the
gate, but is free to all pre-registered attendees. The registration form
can be found at www.undergroundfocuslive.com.
About MapFrame Corporation
MapFrame Corporation leads the industry in developing mobile mapping
technology and field automation processes for utilities nationwide. By
spatially displaying data from core systems such as GIS, CIS, dispatch,
and work management, MapFrame’s FieldSmart® software brings greater
efficiencies to the field. FieldSmart converts this data to a single,
easy-to-use viewing package, streamlining mobile operations. With
MapFrame’s proprietary compression and data flow capabilities, utility
crews have fast field access to the latest maps and information.
FieldSmart applications include View™, Sketch™, Collect™, Inspect™,
Repair™, Design™, Route™ and Field Flow Manager™. More information is
available at www.mapframe.com.
About KorTerra, Inc.
Since 1990, KorTerra, Inc. has developed mobile computing and workforce
management solutions for the utility industry. They have worked with
major utilities, contract locators and municipalities to develop a
variety of Utility Workforce Management systems. The software
effectively manages on-time response, management reporting, positive
response, and keeps track of locating team performance in a real-time,
mobile and paperless environment. KorTerra also provides ASP services;
capabilities that allow KorTerra to host the software on their servers
with customer access to the application via the Internet. KorTerra
software interfaces with every One Call Center and is used by Utilities,
Municipalities and Contract Locators across North America. Today, over
20,000,000 tickets are managed by the KorTerra application annually. To
learn more about KorTerra and see what their customers are saying about
the KorTerra product suite, go to
www.korterra.com, or contact via telephone at 952.368.1911.
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For additional information contact:
Press Contact(s):
Chris Stendal, President
KorTerra, Inc.
18882 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Tel: 952.368.1911
Fax: 952.697.3141
Email: sales@korterra.com
