Aspects of implementing GIS as a centralized system in enterprise IT/OT environment

Abstract

Everyday tasks, process workflows and legislation issues force utility companies to ground their business model on information technologies, the components of which are the fastest developing products nowadays. An enterprise information system is a group of interleaved individual systems (IT&OT) which share a significant amount of common data, yet they typically exist as a separate system and on a separate platform. Data exchange between those systems is inevitable and among them the geographic information system (GIS) with its geodatabase, represents a key integration component. GIS also provides tools and methods for spatial data analyses which serve as a guide in business and development decision. Nonetheless, the GIS aim is also to offer tools and to serve accurate and reliable data to the end users.This paper presents an ongoing project (December, 2018) of enterprise GIS platform implementation at the electricity distribution company Elektro Primorska, Slovenia. The main stress is placed on data modelling and system integration. Besides this, the advantages in reports building as well as the end user Web-based GIS application are discussed.