Try GeoSpatial Analysis Free for 30 Days and Turn Data Into Valuable Insights

Using data to inform decision making is as important as ever. To assist our utility and telecommunications customers in making better decisions using data from systems they employ today, I am delighted to share that GE Digital is offering a free 30-day trial of our GeoSpatial Analysis (GSA) solution.

It is a frustratingly common situation for today’s utilities and telecommunications operators– you have invested in solutions that allow you to model, design and operate your network but tapping into that information to answer other business needs remains elusive, expensive or both.

It’s typical when accommodating requests for a regulator, or for internal stakeholders looking to optimize their investment strategy and improve safety, to need to invest in long running IT projects to move and transform data to meet the request. Or failing that, it becomes a disruptive manual task for valuable resources.

Today's network companies are looking for solutions that can directly connect to the valuable source data, accurately and rapidly without those significant IT costs, to become a source of business knowledge that is accurate, easily accessible and based on the latest view of the data. And when that need arises again, it is inherently repeatable. On that basis you can better inform your organization and encourage a data-based approach to key decisions on investments and profitability.

The first steps to deriving insights from your data are easier than you think

Unlocking the value from the data your systems requires connecting to those data sources, combining them and dealing with their inconsistencies of modeling approach and field naming - and then producing the derived data, reports and interactive maps to provide the knowledge required to act as actionable information for your business. That is the premise of GE’s GeoSpatial Analysis (GSA).

GSA provides a visual desktop environment that puts those steps into a structured GUI based tool, storing all its configurations in a project that can be shared and reused. It allows you to easily make direct connections to various data sources, including the large enterprise spatial and attribute databases including Oracle, SQL Server, PostGIS and GE Smallworld as well as other common formats used for GIS and Office data - over 35 feature source types in total.

Once connected to source data, GSA’s toolset guides you through combining and aggregating the collections-shaping the data into business information, reports, queries, business networks and analysis maps that you need to support decision making for your network-based business.

How GSA is solving real business problems

Today, utilities and telecommunications companies are using this technology to improve safety, reliability, and profitability.

To help keep their workforces safe during a pandemic, utilities can utilize publicly available disease infection and recovery data, combined with their network-based Smallworld GIS data, other traditional map data, and their work order management system to gain insights into which work orders are planned in viral hotspots. 

Utilities can also use fire zone and weather data combined with information about historical load consumption to design networks that have lower fire risk than their as-built networks. 

For telecommunications providers faced with increased demand for fiber to support 5G networks, GSA can provide a heat map analysis against GE Smallworld infrastructure data, as well as data from other geospatial software providers, to answer questions like: where do I need to add fiber network capacity to meet 5G demand, and where should we start to maximize profit?

Accessing and aggregating network infrastructure data will help you understand your network’s actual state and development over time. This knowledge empowers you to apply resources effectively in handling network extensions, inspections, maintenance tasks, and incidents. Creating a system of record with sophisticated models of your utility or telecommunications networks is a solid first step.

Get started with GSA today

To assist utilities and telecommunications providers in making the better decisions using the data from the systems they employ today, GE Digital is offering a 30-day free trial offer of GSA. To take advantage of this offer and begin to explore patterns in network infrastructure to overcome business challenges, please complete this form and a GE representative will reach out to help you get started with a software package and documentation to help you get started exploring GSA’s basic data shaping, query and visualization capabilities.

I hope you will take us up on this offer to start seeing some of the great results other utilities have seen with this solution.