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Always ambitious and           Enterprise systems          right applications and        many features and
inspired, Khatib & Alami       including Oracle            integrations. Our asset       capabilities to the
(K&A) Energy & Utilities       E-business suite (EAM),     management services           utility, starting with
Systems Integration (SI)       CRM and SCADA; asset        will build a robust process   establishing data
Department went up             management process and      for asset coding, registry    exchange between
against prominent local        registry implementation;    update and asset criticality  ESRI ArcGIS and
and international GIS          and training and onsite     analysis that serves the      EAM, enabling CRM
and asset management           support services. The       organization’s needs          to run spatial analysis
service providers to win       system design’s primary     while optimizing asset        and locate specific
its first GIS project with     objectives include          management procedures         customers based on
Salalah Sanitary Drainage      assessing existing SSDC     and streamlining the          predefined queries,
Company (SSDC) and             IT infrastructure (with     acquisition of the required   and empowering the
its second major GIS           reference to project-       ISO certification. The Web    SCADA system with
implementation project         related software) and       GIS will bring together       geographical data to
for the Energy & Utilities     recommending changes        ArcGIS server and ArcFM       visualize the feeders,
(SI) in Salalah, the second    and upgrades that support   Web tools based on            and pushing back live
largest city in the Sultanate  the planned GIS and         HTML5 and Geocortex           network data from
of Oman. Our Energy &          systems integration usage.  web engine, thus letting      SCADA to the GIS
Utilities SI Department        The data model design is    SSDC make the most            map. This key project
has reinforced its position    an essential element for    of the solution’s data        addresses a number
as a leader in the GIS         building the geodatabase                                  of business drivers

Leading Life
                   Enhancing Innovation
                                         in Oman

utility solutions market in    which will host the GIS     analytics and reporting       that optimally meet
Oman and the region at         spatial and attribute data  engine. In addition to all    SSDC’s strategic
large thanks to state-of-      for SSDC’s network assets.  this, detailed requirements   objectives. These
the-art solutions and a        After the data migration    will be collected to          include supporting
client-focused approach.       to the new geodatabase,     custom develop an             daily operations
The project took off on 16     K&A will conduct a          application that facilitates  with an up-to-date
October 2016 and spans         thorough network gap        the clearance approval        and accurate spatial
18 months followed by one      analysis for sewerage and   procedure and automates       empowered database,
year warranty period. The      treated sewage effluent     different stages in the       improving asset
scope of work includes         levels to validate the      network clearance process     lifecycle management
project management             network coverage and        including user levels         via recent field
and coordination; GIS          identify potential missing  that benefit from a GIS       observations and a
system and data model          parts using available data  integrated web service.       reliable GIS database,
design; gap analysis,          sources. The gap analysis   The GIS integration with      using GIS to spatially
field data collection and      findings will in turn be    business solutions at         enable business
development; Web GIS           used as the road map        SSDC is one of the most       processes, and
solution and clearance         for a field survey that     important tasks in this       increasing staff levels
application development;       fills identified gaps and   project. This task alone      in an ever-changing
GIS integration with           develops a high quality     is expected to offer          network with evolving
                               geodatabase that has the                                  technology.
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