Anglian Water has opted  to deploy an integrated GIS and SAP module to streamline processes and manage its assets and work.

Hexagon’s SAP integration module provides a seamless connection between Anglian Water’s utility GIS, built on Hexagon’s Intergraph G/Technology®, and SAP’s enterprise application integration software, SAP Process Integration (PI).

“The integration between Hexagon’s GIS and SAP provides us with a single solution to help manage our assets and work,” said Chris Bodley, Anglian Water’s IS Service Delivery Manager. “The combination provides an important source of reliable information to help us deliver our customer promises through a better understanding of the networks and how they are changing.”

The web services-based module removes the need for point-to-point interfaces between systems, which are costly to implement, maintain and upgrade.

Anglian Water’s GIS provides detailed, connected network information to personnel handling key aspects of the company’s day-to-day business operations, including customer services call-takers, network technicians in the field, analysts in asset planning and duty managers in the company’s Operations Management Centre.

Anglian Water’s GIS also uses Hexagon’s G/WaterUK, an extension to Intergraph G/Technology that provides capabilities required by U.K. water companies. G/WaterUK originated from a business collaboration between Anglian Water and Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure (then called Intergraph’s Security, Government & Infrastructure division) in 2006.

Hexagon’s SAP integration module was delivered working in partnership with CapGemini, one of Anglian Water’s IT framework partners.