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KorTerra Presents at 2009 ESRI Electric & Gas User Group Conference
Minneapolis, MN – October 26th, 2009 – KorTerra was selected and participated as a guest speaker at the 2009 ESRI Electric & Gas User Group Conference hosted in Atlanta, GA. The conference focused on providing new solutions for the ESRI user community’s critical business processes, and included multiple presentation tracks over the four day conference span.
Jeff Law, vice president of KorTerra, presented damage prevention industry solutions that involve integrating ESRI maps with the One Call ticket management process. Utility companies receive numerous benefits by combining different sets of information they currently possess. For example, One Call ticket management systems are built to receive, dispatch and process locate tickets. By integrating existing ESRI information into their ticket management system, utility companies can now display facility maps that show the exact location of all their underground assets. These facility maps allow all underground gas, water, sewer, cable, electrical lines and any other utility information to be displayed in the ticket management system, along with a geographical pinpoint of the dig location as provided by the latitude and longitude coordinates on the received locate ticket. Merging this information in a meaningful way benefits utility companies with more efficient and accurate locates, less time spent physically performing locates and greater control and utilization of their data from one comprehensive source.
ESRI can be integrated into the following ticket management processes:
- Ticket Screening
- Ticket Dispatching
- Field Locating
- Routing
- Ticket Search
“The conference was outstanding,” stated Law. “The variety of presentation topics really covered all aspects of how GIS can be utilized to solve business problems and improve processes. KorTerra truly benefited by both participating in sessions as well as presenting our company’s ideas in our featured session.”
KorTerra continues their efforts to create further process efficiencies utilizing GIS data by attending and participating in a variety of information technology and damage prevention industry events. Click here to view a full list of KorTerra’s upcoming and past event activity.
For more information about the integration processes KorTerra has identified for ESRI maps and One Call ticket management systems, please contact us at 952.368.1911.
About KorTerra, Inc.
Since 1990, KorTerra has been the damage prevention industry’s most trusted partner in providing quality and comprehensive One Call ticket management software solutions. KorTerra works with Pipeline Companies, Utilities, Municipalities, Contract Locators, and One Call Centers to help them operate as efficiently as possible through the use of our industry-leading technology, while cutting costs by eliminating unnecessary manual processes. KorTerra’s unique position of collaborating directly with these companies in the damage prevention industry has allowed us to build a compilation of industry-wide knowledge and best practices that few companies possess. KorTerra's current One Call ticket management operations process over 25,000,000 tickets annually. In addition to One Call ticket management software, KorTerra provides process consulting and software training services to ensure operations are streamlined and functional throughout all areas of an organization. To learn more about KorTerra, please visit www.korterra.com, or contact via telephone at 952.368.1911.
For additional information contact:
Press Contact(s):
Aimee Wendland, Marketing Manager
KorTerra, Inc.
18946 Lake Drive East
Chanhassen, MN 55317
Tel: 952.368.1911 ext. 3157
Fax: 952.697.3141
Email: marketing@korterra.com
