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  • Common Spatial Information Initiative (CS2i)

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Common Spatial Information Initiative (CS2i)
    Project: NSW Addressing Strategy Facilitation
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2009
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned to establish a review process of current legislation, systems and status of legal addresses in NSW for the delivery of a range of emergency services, post and utilities.  The project involved undertaking a workshop with a range of key stakeholders, documenting outcomes including proposed governance arrangements and terms of reference for the proposed NSW Addressing Working Group.
       

    NSW Addressing Strategy Facilitation

  • Dept of Environment & Climate Change

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Dept of Environment & Climate Change
    Project: Feasibility Study & Requirements Analysis for a Marine / Bathymetric Database
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 2009
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned by the NSW Dept of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) to undertake a Feasibility Study and Requirements Analysis to assist the development or purchase of a Marine / Bathymetric Database which would provide integration with DECC spatial information systems and support the Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (MER) program of DECC.  This project involved undertaking an extensive review of current hydrographic data collection and storage methods, review of the business operations of DECC with regard to hydrographic data, particularly to support MER reporting, as well as research into possible COTS solutions available should DECC implement a Marine / Bathymetric Database.
       

    Feasibility Study & Requirements Analysis for a Marine / Bathymetric Database

  • Marrickville Council

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Marrickville Council
    Project: Scoping Study for the Development of a Corporate Spatial Information Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Local Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2008
    Description:

    Marrickville Council have used spatial technology for a number of years and while good information management practice has been implemented, the diversity of business use for spatial technologies has grown over time in a somewhat piecemeal fashion.  Therefore council considered it prudent to develop a Spatial Information Strategy to ensure that business benefits are maximised and to identify if more appropriate technologies and or management practices can be leveraged to greater effect.  In an effort to more fully understand the scope of the strategy development a scoping study was undertaken whereby the key areas of the council that rely on spatial information were investigated to identify the key issues that a corporate strategy should address.
       

    Scoping Study for the Development of a Corporate Spatial Information Strategy

  • Land and Property Information

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Land and Property Information
    Project: Spatial Operations Review
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2008
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned to undertake a Review of the Spatial Operations of LPI in 2008.  This project was focused on gathering information about, and understanding of, the current business information environment within LPI, particularly with regard to workflows and workloads and the impact that the information environment has on these loads and flows including a review of strategies / initiatives such as Vision 2013, CS2i, etc.  This phase included extensive stakeholder discussion / workshops, review of existing systems, environments and documentation in order to provide the basis for the subsequent strategy development discussions and options analysis, including risk analysis.  The project also involved a Best Practice review of Spatial Information Operations nationally in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia as well as internationally in New Zealand and Canada with correlation against the outcomes from the business review conducted in the previous phase.  The outcome from this review was that LPI repositioned their Spatial Operations to focus on customer / stakeholder requirements utilising a number of output focused teams.
       

    Spatial Operations Review

  • Land and Property Information

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Land and Property Information
    Project: SDI Business Case
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: Cost Benefit Analysis
    Year: 2008
    Description:

    Land and Property Information (LPI) of the NSW Department of Lands commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to develop a Business Case for a NSW Spatial Data Infrastructure.  This project involved reviewing the SDI Program as a whole with a specific focus on examining alternatives and providing cost benefits/risk analysis of the feasible options for each of the four Sub-Project, namely the Geo Urban and Rural Address Project (GURAP), the Topographic Systems Improvements (TSI), the Land Owners Register IT Upgrade (LOR) and the Imagery & Mapping Online Services (IMOS) Project.  In addition, several complementary current Projects were reviewed, namely the Digital Image Acquisition System (DIAS), the Survey Infrastructure Project (SIP) and the Digital Elevation Model Project (DEM).  The project was completed and ratified for implementation.
       

    SDI Business Case

  • Westfield Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Westfield Australia
    Project: Centre Asset Mapping System
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Private Company
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2008
    Description:

    Westfield Australia is a large retail property group which undertake ownership, development, design, construction, funds and asset management, property management, leasing and marketing of world class shopping centres.  Trading information (e.g. rent, turnover, occupancy cost, lease expiry date etc) that can be intuitively viewed and analysed is important to support client relationships, improve Centre management and assist retailers. To support business decisions and satisfy reporting needs Westfield Australia embarked on implementation of a new GIS mapping system.  It provided new functionality for Westfield staff to interactively view the location of all Shops, Kiosks, merchandising sites and other Centre assets in relation with selected financial and business data. Westfield engaged Corporate GIS Consultants to select and appoint a supplier that can deliver the best solution to meet Westfield business requirements and provide both quality, and value for money outcomes.  A functional requirement specification and tender documentation was developed to facilitate GIS vendor responses and ensure that the proposed system solution can fully satisfy functional requirements, satisfy growing business demands and be compatible with Westfield’s High Level Technical Architecture.
       

    Centre Asset Mapping System

  • State Water Corporation

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: State Water Corporation
    Project: GIS Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2007
    Description:

    NSW State Water Corporation (previously part of the NSW Dept of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability) is a rural bulk water delivery business in NSW providing water to irrigation corporations, country town water supply authorities, farms, mines and electricity generators, by releasing flows from its dams into rivers to be accessed by water users.  State Water commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a GIS Strategy to ensure that the future direction of GIS continues to support and align with the current and future requirements of State Water and its strategic aims. This major project had a focus on understanding the spatial and non-spatial information management requirements of the organisation and its constituent stakeholders and the use of this information to deliver a range of business functionality.  Key outcomes of this strategy were that there were very strong business needs to implement a corporate GIS so that it can meet a number of business functional needs such as Property Management, Environmental Management, Asset Management, Customer Management, etc, but that this GIS should be part of an overall State Water “Information Management” Strategy to encompass a range of financial, asset and water management systems.  This strategy was presented to the Board and received endorsement subject to budget allocation.
       

    GIS Strategy

  • Dubbo City Council

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Dubbo City Council
    Project: GIS Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Local Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2007
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were retained as a third party to undertake a review of GIS and IT in Dubbo City Council with a scope to investigate the underlying issues at Council causing friction between IT and GIS and facilitate a series of meetings between IT and GIS to attempt resolution and assist the Technical Services Division to better document GIS policies, procedures, strategies and agreed briefs.  This short project was focused on understanding the Council, its technology environment and the role that GIS had with the IT Branch.
       

    GIS Strategy

  • Hastings Council

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Hastings Council
    Project: GIS Effectiveness Review
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Local Government
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 2007
    Description:

    Following the GIS Effectiveness Review undertaken by Corporate GIS Consultants in 2005, Hastings Council engaged our company again to perform a subsequent review (2 years hence).  The review utilized the Corporate GIS Consultants Best Practice Survey Database and compared Hastings Council against survey responses for Duration of Use, GIS Products and Operating Systems, GIS Product Deployment Architecture, Data Storage, Infrastructure Strategy, GIS Product Support, Spatial Applications, Data Liability and Privacy, Budget Processes, System Integration, and Business Alignment.  A “report card” detailed the comparison of the most commonly reported industry practice against the Hastings Council reported practice and the emerging and / or generally perceived best practice.  The report card included comment on the Hastings Council comparative performance and appropriate recommendations where applicable.
       

    GIS Effectiveness Review

  • SCI Geo & Data

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: SCI Geo & Data
    Project: Business Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Private Company
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2006
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by SCI Geo & Data, a business of Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, to develop a strategy for the development of their business past their (then) current operation based on one single project for a large government agency to that which would be able to support their 19 staff in a GIS bureau environment.  Because of the nature of the physical disabilities of a number of their operations staff, their business requirements were quite different thus requiring careful consideration of a commercial direction that would sustain the requirements of the staff.  The outcome of this project was a re-launch of the business with a clear focus to grow the operations into a diverse and successful business.
       

    Business Strategy

  • Albury-Wodonga Corporation

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Albury-Wodonga Corporation
    Project: GIS Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Land Management
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2006
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were retained by the Albury-Wodonga Corporation to provide assistance with the re-development of their GIS Business from being an in-house service to that being outsourced to a third-party provider in order to facilitate the eventual winding-down of the Corporation over the next 5 to 8 years.  This project was a particularly delicate assignment in order to ensure that details about the winding-down of the Corporation did not become public knowledge, given that they owned large tracts of undeveloped land and wanted to avoid rumours in the land development industry about an impending “fire-sale” of the Corporations assets.  The project required Corporate GIS Consultants to review and analyse an existing offer (including developing a short report) and then to undertake a confidential tender process and initial screening of responses before assisting with the financial arrangements for the Corporation.
       

    GIS Strategy

  • Sydney Water

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Sydney Water
    Project: GIS Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2005
    Description:

    Sydney Water Corporation (SWC) retained Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a review of Geospatial Information Services across the corporation.  A major focus of the project was understanding the multiple GIS environments including HYDRA GIS and Works Asset Management System (WAMS) environments in addition to the water modeling and waste water modeling systems and the impending field resource system.  This was a major project with a team also including a spatial implementation specialist and a specialist in developing cost / benefits and business cases for large asset based IT projects. 
    SWC could be described as a “system rich” environment which has evolved from an organisation with large staff numbers (>15,000 over two decades ago) requiring many and complex systems, to the current organisation of lower staff numbers (<3,500) but still retaining the large numbers of complex information technology and geospatial information environments which supported a business many fold this size.  This environment includes a number of major and minor geospatial information systems.  The project included extensive stakeholder discussions, reviewing a number of high-level process flows and data inter-dependency matricies as well as undertaking a correlation of findings against the GIS / Spatial Best Practice Survey outcomes over the last 6 years.  A external comparison with four similar utilities was also undertaken.
    The development of the final Strategy included considering a number of options with the Desired (Target) State focusing on providing a Single Authoritative data source for the provision of geospatial information services across the corporation.  This report also included developing detailed Transition Steps to move from the current environment to the Desired State over a number of years. Following extensive consultation within Sydney Water, the Strategy was endorsed by management and budgeted for implementation commencing in the 2006/07 financial year
       

    GIS Strategy

  • Stockland

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Stockland
    Project: GIS Specification and Tender
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Private Company
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2005
    Description:

    Stockland retained Corporate GIS Consultants to develop a specification (and subsequent tender document) to acquire a GIS which would provide land management services, including Business Intelligence capability for the corporation.  The major focus of Stockland is in developing, apartments, shopping centres, commercial estates and hotel complexes.  Operations are across Australia with the focus of the GIS being on Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and to a lesser extent, Brisbane.  Corporate GIS Consultants were also retained to assist Stockland staff go through the tender evaluation process and select a product capable of meeting their requirements.
       

    GIS Specification and Tender

  • Royal Botanic Gardens

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Royal Botanic Gardens
    Project: GIS Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2004
    Description:

    In early 2004, the Royal Botanic Gardens commissioned Corporate GIS Consultants to undertake a review of their GIS and Tree Management Systems operating on three major Botanic Garden estates across Sydney.  This was an extensive project which involved considerable stakeholder discussion, investigation of a number of field data capture products and the proposed integration of the CAD and the GIS environments.  The existing Tree Management System was reviewed with a number of recommendations tabled to provide a Strategy for the Botanic Gardens to move towards providing a complete management system for their living collections.
       

    GIS Strategy

  • Board of Surveying and Spatial Information

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Board of Surveying and Spatial Information
    Project: Roadmap & Framework for NSW Spatial Information Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2004
    Description:

    The Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI) is charged with the development and promotion of spatial information initiatives within New South Wales and is enabled under the Surveying Act 2002 to provide a number of spatial information activities within NSW.  In order to address these functions, BOSSI retained Corporate GIS Consultants to develop a Road Map and Framework for a NSW Spatial Information Strategy.  The findings resulting from this project highlighted that the most important issue has been identifying the need to get the Governance Model and the Engagement Model correct for the subsequent Spatial Information Strategy for NSW – based on a “peak body” or “Spatial Council” in that jurisdiction, consisting of representation from most industry sectors; managed and implemented by (and uses the services of) the “Lands” agency within that jurisdiction; and focused on the dataset which is the most sought-after and important dataset by all stakeholders (ie, the cadastre), also managed and maintained by the “Lands” agency within that jurisdiction.
       

    Roadmap & Framework for NSW Spatial Information Strategy

  • Integral Energy

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Integral Energy
    Project: GIS Data Capture and Maintenance Review
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2004
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were engaged by Integral Energy to undertake a review of the GIS Data Capture and Maintenance process in August 2004, some 20 months after the roll-out of the new GIS in late 2002.  Integral Energy replaced its 10 year old GIS system with the roll out of the Intergraph G/Electric GIS in December 2002.  This represented a substantial change in system function and process in the delivering of capability to approximately 50 data editors and 300 data viewers across the organisation and externally to approximately 50 Accredited Service Providers.  Asset data, particularly spatial data, underpins all Integral Energy transactions and business decisions and provides the mechanism for Integral Energy to provide power to approximately 830,000 customers using approximately 400,000 in-service poles.  The findings relating to the problems of the GIS data capture and maintenance process, and the backlog growth was due to a number of issues which could be categorised as data issues; system (software) issues; organisational issues; training issues; and process issues.  The outcome from this project was a Final Report containing a number of recommendations.

       

    GIS Data Capture and Maintenance Review

  • Rural Lands Protection Board

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Rural Lands Protection Board
    Project: GIS Tender Specification
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2003
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants developed the specification for the spatial aspects to the tender for a new operating environment for all of the 48 Boards in NSW.  This built on the work undertaken by other consultants to define the business systems.  The spatial environment was aligned to work closely with the Board’s major stakeholders, eg NSW Agriculture and Land and Property Information.  The specification was subsequently released for tender and a system selected.
       

    GIS Tender Specification

  • NSW Agriculture

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: NSW Agriculture
    Project: GIS Review
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 2003
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants reviewed Resource Information Unit of NSW Agriculture in Orange with respect to their ability to meet the business needs of the Department and associated agencies, ie the Rural Lands Protection Board.  This short project involved consideration of all of the current and future tasks, methodologies and technology directions of the RIU and the Department.  The final report addressed these issues and proposed that the RIU migrate to a corporate approach for data storage and systems and that a number of the RIU staff be assigned to expedite a “bureau” style of operating to service their clients (internal and external).
       

    GIS Review

  • Department of Planning

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Department of Planning
    Project: Review of Land Management System
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2002
    Description:

    Based upon the work undertaken in developing the GIS Strategy for PlanningNSW, Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to review the previous work undertaken in developing the Land Management System for the Land Management Branch, a business unit of the department charged with the acquisition and disposal of government land.  A business and technical review were undertaken followed by the development of a technical specification which would integrate the GIS requirements (using ESRI software) with the property management and financial requirements using the MRI software.  Bruce Douglas was further retained during 2002 and into 2003 to project manage the development of these applications and the roll-out of this across the Branch.  An outcome of this project was that LMS3 was the successfully implemented and met / exceeded client requirements.
       

    Review of Land Management System

  • Mine Subsidence Board

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Mine Subsidence Board
    Project: GIS/Property Management Tender Specification, Evaluation and Contract Negotiations
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2002
    Description:

    Bruce Douglas undertook a review of the needs of the Mine Subsidence Board for an Information Management System (IMS) Environment incorporating Spatial Information System, Document Management Systems, Property Management Systems as well as Office Automation.  This review was based upon developing a tender for the subsequent procurement of an integrated IMS environment to replace the existing environments and legacy systems.  The specification was completed, the tender released and evaluated in mid 2002.  Corporate GIS Consultants were then retained to assist the Board in evaluating the tenders and negotiating the contract with the preferred tenderer.
       

    GIS/Property Management Tender Specification, Evaluation and Contract Negotiations

  • Integral Energy

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Integral Energy
    Project: GIS/Asset Management Tender Selection
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2001
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to assist Integral Energy with the evaluation of a GIS system for their Asset Management Environment.  This was after they had already undertaken a considerable amount of the initial preparatory work and had considered the issue of retaining a Systems Integrator (since discounted).  Following a considerable evaluation process, Intergraph was selected.
       

    GIS/Asset Management Tender Selection

  • Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
    Project: GIS Business Case
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2001
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Business Case for iPlan, an initiative of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now PlanningNSW).  The Business Case was for $3.17M and was developed in line with the requirements of DITM (OIT) and NSW Treasury.  The Business Case was subsequently accepted by DITM and recommended to Treasury for approval.
       

    GIS Business Case

  • Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (now Dept Planning)
    Project: GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions Review
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2001
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to undertake a Review of GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions for the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP).  DUAP has an aging GenaMap system and groups using ESRI and Mapinfo systems to undertake a number of tasks across all the business groups.  This included urban and rural planning, natural resource mapping, map production etc.  Following considerable user workshops and executive discussions to determine the technical and business requirements for the GIS Review, a number of options were determined which led to the development of a Strategy to change the focus from the collection and management of data to the use of data to meet business needs.  The Strategy was accepted by the Steering Committee and Executive - Corporate GIS Consultants are currently oversighting the implementation of this strategy.
       

    GIS and Cartographic Systems and Functions Review

  • Dept of Planning

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Dept of Planning
    Project: iPlan Business Case
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: State Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 2001
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to develop a Business Case for iPlan, an initiative of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (DUAP).  The Business Case was for $3.17M and was developed in line with the requirements of DITM (OIT) and NSW Treasury.  The Business Case was subsequently accepted by DITM and recommended to Treasury for approval.
       

    iPlan Business Case

  • Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)
    Project: RAMS Evaluation
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Road / Rail
    Project Type: Specifications and Tenders
    Year: 2000
    Description:

    RTA selected Corporate GIS Consultants to assist them with the selection of their Roads Asset Management System (RAMS) for a corporation wide implementation.  This project involved reviewing tender documents, gaining a good understanding of the capabilities of each product through benchmarking, reviewing capability and profiling specific technical issues for RTA deliberation.
       

    RAMS Evaluation

  • Energy Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Energy Australia
    Project: GIS Audit
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1997
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to undertake a GIS Audit for Energy Australia to review and audit the Sydney Data Capture project, the Newcastle Data Capture project and the Sydney Data Conversion project. The Sydney Data Capture project had been underway for several years, was based upon ESRI systems and had captured a substantial part of the former Sydney Electricity overhead and underground utility data. The other two projects used the Smallworld system base in Newcastle and, following a prior decision to move all GIS to Smallworld, the conversion project was in the process of converting all the ESRI data to the Smallworld system. The audit resulted in a thorough review of the financial and technical status of each project and recommendations to move past the current data conversion difficulties.
       

    GIS Audit

  • Energy Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Energy Australia
    Project: Development of a GIS Upgrade Functional Definition Document
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1996
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants developed a Functional Requirements Specification for the Upgrade of the Mapping Assets System (GIS) system for Sydney Electricity. The FRS included requirements for packaged software, re-development of a large suite of existing applications and conversion of approximately 4Gb of spatial and aspatial data.

    This assignment involved developing the FRS in the form of a tender specification with which to issue to short-listed suppliers for supply and implementation. It was initially estimated that there were 200 person-years of data conversion to be undertaken to create a digital record of the existing paper documents. In addition, a considerable amount of field data capture was undertaken. Sydney Electricity was subsequently amalgamated with Orion Electricity to form Energy Australia. In mid 1996 Corporate GIS Consultants was commissioned to develop a Functional Requirements Specification for the Upgrade of the Mapping Assets System to ESRI's ARCSTORM product suite which would provide for increased efficiency of accessing data as well as providing greater functionality and a transparent seamless geographic base for managing assets.

    The FRS included requirements for packaged software, re-development of a large suite of existing applications and conversion of approximately 4Gb of spatial and aspatial data. This assignment involved developing the FRS in the form of a tender specification for issue to short-listed suppliers for supply and implementation.
       

    Development of a GIS Upgrade Functional Definition Document

  • Energy Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Energy Australia
    Project: Independent Review of GIS Upgrade Options
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1996
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were commissioned to undertake an independent review of upgrade options for Energy Australia’s next upgrade of their core spatial technology.  The review covered a comprehensive range of upgrade options and included particular focus on identifying the viability status of all options, providing advice on relevant industry trends, particularly with respect to software customisation, evaluating prior investigative work undertaken by Energy Australia and external consultants, and identifying likely systems integrators to perform the upgrade.  The assignment recommended viable upgrade options and outlined the next steps in progressing the upgrade effort.  A subsequent stage of this project was to do a “refresh” of the earlier assignment to perform an independent review of upgrade options for Energy Australia’s next upgrade of their core spatial technology.  The original report recommended a series of actions as next steps to progress the upgrade effort.  Following the completion of these activities an updated report was prepared to ensure that the current position with respect to upgrade options was documented.  The assignment retained the original scope but had a focus on updating the original information in light of the activities that had been performed, and the information that had been obtained in the period following the initial review.
       

    Independent Review of GIS Upgrade Options

  • Land Titles Office

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Land Titles Office
    Project: Electronic Lodgement Investigation
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 1994
    Description:

    A Feasibility Study was undertaken into digital lodgement of survey plans in NSW. This included consideration of the internal processes within LTO and the need for maintaining integrity of survey information as part of the process. This investigation subsequently led to the full strategy development undertaken Departmentally-wide. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
       

    Electronic Lodgement Investigation

  • Land Information Centre

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Land Information Centre
    Project: User Requirements for Cadastral Spatial Reference System
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Land Management
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1994
    Description:

    Undertaking a user requirements and cost benefit study for a Cadastral Spatial Referencing System (CSRS) proposed to be developed by the Land Information Centre at Bathurst. One of the outcomes of the CSRS proposal is that it would address many of the data problems currently associated with the DCDB. Because of the many significant problems currently being experienced in NSW with regard to the DCDB and its impact on the workability of many LIS/GIS projects underway by many Government agencies, the impact of any CSRS proposal could be substantial. This project is currently underway and is due for completion by March 1993. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
       

    User Requirements for Cadastral Spatial Reference System

  • Spatial Information Systems Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Spatial Information Systems Australia
    Project: Market Survey for High Resolution Satellite Imagery
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Private Company
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 1994
    Description:

    Development of a study on the market for high resolution satellite imagery in Australia for SISA based around technology delivering, on a 2 day repeat cycle, tasked imagery with three dimension stereoscopic images used for a wide range of applications. This project involved researching the opportunities for this new market and produced a report outlining the market size based upon existing satellite imagery and aerial photography requirements. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
       

    Market Survey for High Resolution Satellite Imagery

  • State Rail Authority

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: State Rail Authority
    Project: Quality Review of GIS Systems Integrator Tender
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government, Road / Rail
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1994
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants undertook a quality review of the GIS Systems Integrator Tender currently under development for State Rail. This document was reviewed for content, completeness, relevance to the tasks required by State Rail as well as to ensure independence of any vendor bias. This short assignment resulted in a report and an edited final document which would be suitable for release to vendors.
       

    Quality Review of GIS Systems Integrator Tender

  • Department of Conservation and Land Management

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Department of Conservation and Land Management
    Project: Electronic Lodgement Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government, Land Management
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 1994
    Description:

    CaLM, consisting principally of the Land Titles Office (LTO) and the Land Information Centre (LIC), retained Bruce Douglas from Price Waterhouse Urwick to undertake a review of the collection and processing of Deposited Plan (DP) Information in electronic form. This project involved reviewing the work being undertaken by both the LTO and LIC on the receipt of cadastral information, how that was treated for entry into the Digital Cadastral Map Base (DCDB), the issues of imaging of DP's and the impact that this has in the broader IT environment of each organisation. In addition, this project involved undertaking a stakeholders review and addressing the data providers (Surveyors) to gain information about their requirements as well as considering the business processes of technical information though each organisation. This project resulted in the development of a CaLM-wide technology strategy for the electronic lodgement, processing and conversion of survey data into specific GIS products involving the used of EDI, imaging and networking technology.
       

    Electronic Lodgement Strategy

  • Land Titles Office

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Land Titles Office
    Project: Economic Appraisal of the Computerised Cadastral Index
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Land Management
    Project Type: Cost Benefit Analysis
    Year: 1993
    Description:

    Bruce Douglas managed the development of a detailed Economic Appraisal of the Computerised Cadastral Index for NSW LTO in 1995 prior to the Office moving the technology onto the next development level. This analysis reviewed all costs and benefits of the capture of extensive data sets as well as the costs associated with the technology acquisition and deployment.
       

    Economic Appraisal of the Computerised Cadastral Index

  • Road and Traffic Authority (RTA)

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Road and Traffic Authority (RTA)
    Project: Spatial Information Systems Review and Strategy
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Road / Rail
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year: 1992
    Description:

    Review of the GIS needs of the Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW, a $1.8B pa Government Department of about 7,000 staff who had built up expertise over a number of years in using a number of different GIS and CADD/Civil systems. However, RTA management had found that each GIS group was developing expertise, data and applications on different systems and at different sophistication levels without an overall coordination and management strategy. The use of the technology was very fragmented, there was no integration of data, considerable duplication of development of applications and no cohesive overall plan or strategy. This project included the review the use of GIS across the whole of the Authority, including Regional Operations, compiling data and functional models of the needs of the RTA organisational units to use the GIS technology to meet business goals and then to determine an optimal strategy which would deliver appropriate GIS capabilities to users as required. This included casual and low frequency users as well as high sophistication data capture and application development teams. The report contained many organisational and technical strategies including broad costs and benefits and implementation timetables for the promulgation of GIS as the Spatial Information Management decision support tool for the Authority for well into the future. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
       

    Spatial Information Systems Review and Strategy

  • AISIST

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: AISIST
    Project: SIS Training needs Analysis
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Government
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year: 1992
    Description:

    As part of AISIST's funding requirement for continuing grants from the NSW Education and Training Foundation, a needs analysis of the Spatial Information Systems (SIS) Industry including cost benefits was required prior to AISIST developing a complete SIS technology training infrastructure. This project involved interviewing many industry leaders, system suppliers and data providers and developing strategies which would enable AISIST to move forward and provide significant training opportunities in the SIS industry. This project was undertaken on contract to Price Waterhouse Urwick.
       

    SIS Training needs Analysis

  • Energy Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Energy Australia
    Project: Business Case for GIS Upgrade
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: GIS Business Strategy
    Year:
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were retained to develop a business case for proceeding with an upgrade to Energy Australia’s core spatial technology.  The business covered an outline of the upgrade efforts to date including investigation of upgrade options, the proposed project scope, project objectives and outcomes, project alignment with the organisations strategies and policies, organisational impacts and dependencies, cost / benefit analysis and risk assessment. 
       

    Business Case for GIS Upgrade

  • Energy Australia

    Projects - New South Wales
    Client: Energy Australia
    Project: GIS Audit
    State: New South Wales
    Industry: Utilities
    Project Type: Needs Analysis Review
    Year:
    Description:

    Corporate GIS Consultants were selected to undertake a GIS Audit for Energy Australia to review and audit the Sydney Data Capture project, the Newcastle Data Capture project and the Sydney Data Conversion project. The Sydney Data Capture project had been underway for several years, was based upon ESRI systems and had captured a substantial part of the former Sydney Electricity overhead and underground utility data. The other two projects used the Smallworld system base in Newcastle and, following a prior decision to move all GIS to Smallworld, the conversion project was in the process of converting all the ESRI data to the Smallworld system. The audit resulted in a thorough review of the financial and technical status of each project and recommendations to move past the current data conversion difficulties.
       

    GIS Audit

 

  

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