Overview
Indio Water Authority contracted with Timmons Group for the migration of its Water Distribution geodatabase from Geometric Network to the Esri Utility Network model. Moving to the Utility Network platform positioned IWA to effectively manage its water distribution assets into the future. In addition, we were tasked with reconfiguring IWA’s Cityworks AMS solution to use Utility Network, including modifying Cityworks business processes to further create a more effective and efficient workflow.
Tasks involved with the migration included:
- Discovery meetings with stakeholders to document business requirements and data model considerations
- Migration of the ArcGIS Enterprise deployment to a new virtual environment
- Data model customization, including creation of attribute rules to ensure streamlined editing workflows
- Assessing the Utility Network Database Readiness with Data Reviewer
- Creating tools with FME to migrate from the current data to the Utility Network data model
- Conducting a Pilot Migration of the database to the Utility Network Model in the stage enterprise environment
- Developing a Testing Plan and conducting testing
- Implementing the final Database Migration and providing ongoing support
This project also included the evaluation and update of automation scripts to ensure the continued integration of several other software solutions. This include integration to My Geo Tab, Navaline (Customer Billing), ELM, and Dig Alert as well scripts to automate update of an ArcGIS Online Dashboard. The Cityworks installation was also upgraded to the most recent version and updated to ensure Cityworks database, customizations, and workflows that were identified as potentially impacted by the migration to the Esri Utility Network data model remained functional.
