Wallingford Software announces today the launch of InfoNet Exchange, a new module for InfoNet, the asset management software solution for the water and wastewater industries. The announcement coincides with the release of InfoNet v8.5, which features a number of additional and important product improvements. InfoNet Exchange is a new optional module for InfoNet users that allows for the automated exchange of data between an InfoNet Master Database and other third party databases and file formats without the necessity to use the core InfoNet application itself.
“This is a major advantage for corporate users”, believes Stuart Dodd, InfoNet’s Global Product Manager. “The exchange of data between InfoNet and other systems – such as GIS, billing or CRM systems – is a daily occurrence and not necessarily undertaken by InfoNet users or water engineers. By providing an API (Applications Programming Interface), IT departments can integrate InfoNet with all the other core applications in use within the organisation without having to acquire InfoNet skills. This will facilitate much deeper and speedier integration of InfoNet within the organisation,” concludes Stuart Dodd. InfoNet Exchange can import or export data to Oracle and Oracle Spatial databases, Personal and SDE Geodatabases, JET Database, and Shape, MIF, XML and CSV files.
Import updates can be applied to all these databases and files formats, and export updates to Oracle and Oracle Spatial databases, and to Personal and SDE Geodatabases. An additional feature of InfoNet Exchange is the ability to create reports via predefined templates. The ability to define standard reports, which can interrogate multi million object databases and be initiated by external users or a batch file, allows the creation of predefined reports by the asset owner at regular predefined times. InfoNet Exchange is accessed via an Application Programming Interface (API) using the familiar Ruby scripting language common in data integration environments.
Highlights amongst the many improvements to InfoNet available with the release of InfoNet v8.5 include : The ability to ´reserve´ an InfoNet network to prevent other users committing changes, thereby ensuring that no conflicts will occur when committing complex changes to a network; The new Update Network from CCTV Surveys tool enables the user to create nodes from CCTV survey data, for instance to automatically create nodes at surveyed connection locations; InfoNet now supports NASSCO PACP v4.2 the import of Manhole Survey data from NASSCO MACP (Assessment and Certification Program) format.
“This is the most important release of InfoNet since its launch”, declares Stuart Dodd. “Existing users will find the many improvements and enhancements greatly aid productivity. InfoNet Exchange meanwhile will prove decisive in convincing many organizations of the invaluable contribution InfoNet could make to the optimum use of the very large and diverse reservoirs of data they hold.”
