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General Sessions (Room A)
8:00 – 8:45: Introduction and Welcome
- Introduce Futura Systems staff, users and vendors
9:00 – 10:30: Review of 2007 Features and Enhancements
- FuturaMap
- FuturaStaking
- FuturaView
- Update on integration interfaces
10:30 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:00: Extending FuturaMap using AMR and Usage Data
- Displaying real time TWACS meter status in FuturaMap
- Usage KW and KWH data downloaded and updated in GIS monthly
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 2:30: Overview of Enhancements Currently in Development
- OMS-Futura Integration
- Data Validation Manager- interface that utilizes ESRI and custom rules for validating and reporting data integrity problems.
- Futura’s ArcServer Web Map- internet map viewing
- Provide support for adding material only items in FuturaStake.
- Disconnected Editing – make map edits in the field and upload changes to the base geodatabase.
2:30 – 3:00: Break
3:00 – 4:30: Interfacing with SEDC
- Creating work orders automatically in Project Tracker with SEDC Service Orders
- SEDC Work Management System discussion
- AssetTracker – Browser-based application for managing transformers and other serialized equipment
Technical Sessions (Room B)
9:00 – 10:30: Break-Out – FuturaMap
- The Futura Systems data model
- The M-Parent in FuturaMap - Modeling and tracing loop-fed subdivisions using multi-parent nodes
- Enhanced functionality of the Futura Flow toolbar
- Real-time connectivity – features that are “Network Aware” and update connectivity automatically.
10:30 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:00: Break-Out – FuturaMap (continued)
- Integrating FuturaStaking with FuturaMap through Post-To-GIS
- Disconnected editing
12:00 – 1:00: Lunch
1:00 – 1:45: Break-Out – FuturaStaking
- Staking with the Futura data model
- Designing large jobs (subdivisions and system improvements)
1:45 – 2:30: Break-Out – Project Tracker
- Incorporating Project Tracker into day-to-day operations
- Managing your project data
- Managing users
- Configuring your Project Tracker interface
- Updating units
2:30 – 3:00: Break
3:00 – 4:00: Break-Out – Futura Integration
- UPN-GIS
- Milsoft Dispatch Integration– Display outages from Milsoft’s Dispatch on Futura’s Web Map in real time.
- PartnerSoft Integration
4:00 – 5:00: Break-Out – FuturaView
- Updates to the Futura Web Map, including customer searches and enhanced layout control for printed maps
- Leveraging GPS technology for an accurate geodatabase
General Sessions (Room A)
8:00 – 8:15: Announcements
8:30 – 9:30: Building and Maintaining the GIS
- UPN-GIS integration, including the ability to identify inaccuracies in UPN location data and correct it from ArcMap.
- Using AMR data to validate phase, substation and circuit values in the GIS
9:30 – 10:00: Break
10:00 – 11:00: Building and Maintaining the GIS (continued)
- GIS Editing using “Post-To-GIS” – “Push Button” automated updating of the Futura GIS from FuturaStaking
11:00 – 11:30: Closing Discussion
Technical Sessions (Room B)
8:30 – 9:30: Break-Out – Techniques for Working with ESRI
- Symbology and labeling techniques for better and more useful maps
- Keeping SDE running smoothly
9:30 – 10:00: Break
10:00 – 11:00: Break-Out – User-Driven Session
- Users discuss hardware/software for the successful implementation of GPS technology
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