In today’s highly digital world, it is nearly impossible for organizations to track all of their data, assets, resources, and tasks in one system. In fact, according to the Wall Street Journal, in 2018, large organizations deployed an average of 129 software apps to keep their organizations running while small organizations used an average of 73 apps. And, that number is expected to keep growing.
But, as Quin Eddy points out in RTInsights, “The peril of deploying a bunch of SaaS best-of-breed solutions from disparate vendors is that you may address individual use cases while still not solving your problems at an architectural level.” That is where data integration comes into play.
Learn why adding just one more software application—the Geonexus Integration Platform—to your organization’s technology stack can make the rest of your organization’s apps work better together.
Enterprise systems that aren’t working together are not reaching their full potential. Here’s why:
In the Utility industry, Geonexus sees a lot of data silos between GIS, Enterprise Asset Management, and Customer Information systems. Data Silos—data that exists in disparate systems—form when systems are not integrated. These silos not only hinder each system’s full functionality, but also often evolve into team silos, meaning that data owned by one team in the organization isn’t accessible by other teams.
Ultimately, Data Silos lead to operational inefficiency. One of our newer Utilities customers experienced this first hand. Despite having industry-standard systems for both GIS and Asset Management, their GIS and EAM teams spent hours each entering the same data into both systems. Without data integration, GIS data entered in the field did not get sent to the asset management team in the office, forcing the EAM team to retype the asset data once they received the information.
Unintegrated systems make for bad business decisions. For one, as we noted above, unintegrated systems lead to wasted time on unnecessary manual processes. Plus, Data Silos thwart management from seeing a comprehensive view of the business, from infrastructure and asset status to maintenance and inspection productivity.
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For starters, data integration eliminates Data Silos, allowing information to flow freely between systems and employees. With free-flowing data, organizations get the most out of their enterprise systems. For example, instead of wasting precious time and resources performing dual data entry, the Geonexus Integration Platform (GIP) allows field crews to enter the data into their field maps with the confidence that it will show up in the Asset Management system automatically each time a data sync is run.
Plus, with an off-the-shelf, no-code solution, like GIP, organizations receive data quality reports every time their data in synchronized, allowing users to quickly solve any data errors or discrepancies.
Book a free 10 minute consultation with Geonexus to discover how our software solution can connect your GIS, Asset Management, and Customer Information systems with no-code: www.geo-nexus.com/contact.
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