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 The
year 2008 has started with a bang and we’re very excited about this latest
batch of new customers!
Bristol, Tennessee. With a population of about 25,000 people, Bristol
is surrounded by mountains, hills and lakes. Considered the birthplace of
country music, Bristol is also one of the country's most elite NASCAR
venues...which more than quadruples the population of the City during
events.
In October 2007, Bristol released an RFP and consequently selected
PubWorks as their Work Order and Asset Management Software system.
Reasons for the selection of PubWorks included ease of use,
low cost of ownership, and integration with the City's growing GIS data set.
In addition, PubWorks will help take the formerly disparate
business processes within maintenance and operations (i.e. work orders, cost
accounting, field/fleet maintenance tracking, and preventive maintenance
scheduling) and combine them into a single, smooth work-flow that eliminates
several points of duplicate data-entry.
Notus Parma Highway District. Parma Idaho. Situated in rural Idaho
along the Oregon-Idaho border and the Snake River, the Notus-Parma Highway
District is one of four such Highway Districts in Canyon County.
PubWorks was selected after losing months worth of data entered into
their old cost accounting/maintenance tracking system. When the developer of
their old system refused to help recover the lost data and insisted instead
that they upgrade to a newer version, they started asking around and
eventually talked to Pat Severance of Riedesel & Associates (http://www.riedeseleng.com),
contracted by the Highway District to develop their GIS data.
Pat also works with Bingham and Bannock Counties, knows they are both happy
with PubWorks and recommended that the Highway District take
a look. It's not much to say that PubWorks is an improvement
over their old system, but noted benefits include more streamlined
data-entry requiring fewer keystrokes, comprehensive reporting, and last
(but not least)...overall confidence in PubWorks and
piece-of-mind that they'll be able to find the data they've entered. We
greatly appreciate the reference offered by Pat Severance of Riedesel &
Associates, and we're proud to have the Notus-Parma Highway District as
another successful Idaho customer.
Yuma County, Colorado. Located on the northeastern Colorado plains
bordering Nebraska and Kansas; dominated by agriculture, Yuma County has an
area of 2,379 square miles and serves a population just fewer than 10,000
people. The County Road and Bridge Department, which maintains 2282 miles of
road, and over 30 bridges, has come to PubWorks from a
competitor's maintenance management system. With 50 employees working in 14
Districts, keeping detailed and accurate records was taking too much time
and effort so it was decided to look for an alternative and they chose
PubWorks. Yuma County is the 30th PubWorks customer in
the State, including more than a third of the 64 Colorado Counties.
Bloomfield Township, Michigan is a suburb of Pontiac approximately 30
miles northwest of Detroit with a population of about 44,000 people. The
Township Road Department previously used a competitor's maintenance
management system, and found it awkward and time-consuming to use. After
careful review of PubWorks, the Road Department made a
purchase decision and noted specific improvements over their old system,
including how entry and changes are done once, in one place; and the ability
to edit things no matter when they were entered.
A key part of the Road Department business process is a detailed monthly
report submitted to the Oakland County Road Commission. The report is part
of a Maintenance Agreement between the Township and Road Commission and
reflects the reimbursable activities that the Road Commission compensates
the Township to perform. The Maintenance Agreement is worth about $700,000
annually, and the monthly detail provided by the Township includes a
comprehensive Labor, Equipment, and Material cost breakdown of the
reimbursable activities performed. PubWorks looks forward to
streamlining the preparation of these and other reports, as well as reducing
time-spent on data-entry and system administration...we are proud to have
earned the business of the Bloomfield Township Road Department.
Are you wondering if PubWorks
would fit into your specific situation? We bet it can!
Give
Philip McGrath
a call and talk it over (719) 264-1850.
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