With 40 consultants dedicated to the Smallworld technology suite in North America & Europe, Ubisense has one of the leading Smallworld delivery teams. Our consultants each have between five and fifteen years of experience with the Smallworld product suite across a broad range of industries and applications, as well as direct involvement on Smallworld product development teams including Core Spatial Technology, PowerOn, Design Manager, PNI and Cornerstone.

How do I get started?Ubisense can provide initial consulting to help you understand the paths from your current GIS system to the Office Suites, and provide you with an understanding of the level of effort required to make the transition.

We will work with you to define and execute an implementation plan to carry out the transition to the Office Suites, using the talent of our experienced staff and partners to ensure we meet your schedule and budget requirements.

We have conducted several successful pilot and evaluation products to help customers understand these paths. These projects produce knowledge and understanding, and also tangible results in the form of an agreed implementation plan and cost estimates. This work will provide you with a basis to make good decisions, accommodating all of the factors which must be considered in these implementations, and will share the knowledge from the Ubisense team with your staff to understand the real challenges and opportunities in an office implementation project. This includes reviews of:

• Data Migration and conversion – From existing Smallworld system and legacy data sources
• Custom Application requirements – Identification of capabilities you have today that are missing in the office tools
• Styles and Map configuration – Evaluation of the changes required to the system and/or your existing map products to move forward on the Office platform
• Required Customization – An evaluation of what level of Office product and data model customization may be needed to meet your users’ needs.
• System Interface Architecture – An analysis of the required interfaces from the GIS to external systems, including a review of industry standards that can be used, existing product support for the integration, and a recommended approach.

At the conclusion of this comprehensive review, you can make sound decisions on the right path forward. This may include proceeding with an implementation project which will produce known results, deliver solutions to the end users, and provide manageable risk matched with tangible results.