GE Energy Announces Smallworld Software For Gas Distribution Utilities

Atlanta, GA - GE Energy has announced the availability of its Smallworld Gas Distribution Office software, a spatially-enabled network management suite of applications that are fundamental to the management of a gas distribution network. The solution is initially targeted to meet the needs of North and South American gas distribution utilities.

"Our Smallworld Gas Distribution Office solution brings together the essential applications gas distribution utilities require to manage their network," stated Dan Heintzelman, President of GE Energy's services business. "The solution also includes a suite of plug and play tools that make this a truly unique industry application with unmatched integration off the shelf."

According to the company, with this product, utilities will drastically reduce the time of implementation, enabling them to rapidly recognize the benefits of these advanced applications while reducing the total cost of ownership.

Smallworld Gas Distribution Office is in the series of products of GE Energy's new Smallworld Utility Office Suite product line. Smallworld Gas Distribution Office provides critical network management applications including cathodic protection management, outage analysis, asset inventory reporting and leak analysis. With the additional plug and play tools the product offers functionality unavailable in any other package, according to GE Energy.

Smallworld Gas Distribution Office also includes the Smallworld Office Productivity Pack, with applications that extend functionality for annotation management and manage various processes such as the bulk updating of attributes, business rules support, multimedia viewing, grid plotting and thematic display.

SOURCE: GE Energy