Utility Geographic Information Systems
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GIS Tools and Workflow Applications for AEC and Operations: Market Analysis and Forecasts
The electrical grid consists of power generation, transmission, distribution, and customer assets that literally cover the face of the earth. Ultimately, the smart grid is all about awareness of the situation of these assets in order to facilitate optimal performance and effectively anticipate and respond to events that might disrupt performance. A geographic information system (GIS) is the method by which utilities capture, store, manipulate, analyze, and manage geospatially referenced information about these assets. Geodata types relevant to electric utilities might include everything from land-based data, streets, ownership/real estate, vegetation, network topology, GPS location data, census data, and many others.
Since spatial data underlies everything an electric utility does, GIS is the only foundational view that can potentially link every operational activity of an electric utility including design and construction, asset management, workforce management, and outage management as well as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), distribution management systems (DMSs), renewables, and strategy planning. Today, utilities are enhancing these key smart grid business processes by implementing GIS applications to support optimal operations.
This Pike Research report analyzes the global market opportunity for GIS across four key application segments: GIS tools and GIS workflow applications for both AEC and operations applications. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of the demand drivers, business models, and technology issues associated with this rapidly growing opportunity. Key industry players are profiled in depth and worldwide software and services revenue, segmented by region, are provided through 2017.
Key Questions Addressed:
-How does GIS enable smart grid technologies and which applications are center-stage for utilities going forward?
-What are the key challenges for GIS users and vendors that must be overcome for the potential benefits of GIS to be fully realized?
-What are the relative software and services opportunities between GIS workflow segments – AEC vs. Operations – over the 2011-2017 timeframe?
-What are the key GIS-related workflows utilities are developing today and their relative speed of adoption?
-How are key technology developments likely to impact the usage of GIS in the forecast period?
-Who are the market leaders and what is their positioning?
-How will regional demand differ for GIS tools and workflows?
Who needs this report?
-GIS software tools providers
-GIS-related utility software and services solutions providers
-Smart grid technology companies
-Smart grid project leaders
-Utilities
-Investor community
Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
1.1 What is a Geographic Information System?
1.2 GIS in the Electric Utility Industry
1.3 Challenges for GIS in the Electric Utility
1.3.1 Data Complexity and Quality
1.3.2 Mobile Workforce Requirements
1.3.3 Organizational Challenges
1.3.4 GIS Ecosystem
1.4 Evolution of the Electric Utility GIS Market
1.5 Utility GIS – Technology Developments
1.5.1 Mobility and Communications
1.5.2 Cloud
1.5.3 Analytics
1.5.4 Federated versus Central GIS Repository
1.6 Utility GIS Vendors
1.7 Utility GIS Market Size and Forecast
2. Market Issues
2.1 What is GIS?
2.2 GIS in the Electric Utility Industry
2.3 Evolution of Electric Utility GIS
2.3.1 Majority Adoption Workflows
2.3.1.1 Automated Mapping/Facilities Management
2.3.1.2 Back Office
2.3.1.3 AEC Plant and Infrastructure Design and Engineering
2.3.2 Early Majority Workflows
2.3.2.1 Asset Management
2.3.2.2 Mobile Workforce Automation
2.3.2.3 Outage Management Systems
2.3.3 Early Adopter/Innovator Stage
2.3.3.1 Advanced DMS
2.3.3.2 AMI and Meter Data Management
2.4 Challenges for GIS in the Electric Utility
2.4.1 Data
2.4.1.1 Data Complexity and Unique Application Usage
2.4.1.2 Data Quality
2.4.2 Mobile Workforce Requirements
2.4.3 Loss of GIS and Asset Knowledge as the Experienced Workforce Retires
2.4.4 Organizational Challenges
2.4.4.1 ROI Justification
2.4.4.2 The GIS Organizational Function
2.4.5 Effectiveness of the GIS Ecosystem
2.4.6 Consumerization of IT
2.5 Summary
3. Technology Issues
3.1 Mobility
3.2 Analytics
3.3 Cloud
3.4 Communications Technology
3.5 Federated versus Central GIS Database of Record
3.6 3D
3.7 Remote Sensing
3.8 Standards
4. Key Industry Players
4.1 Overview
4.2 Software Vendors
4.3 Services Vendors
4.4 Vendor Profiles
4.4.1 Accenture
4.4.2 Autodesk
4.4.3 Bentley
4.4.4 Enspiria Solutions/Black & Veatch
4.4.5 Esri
4.4.6 GE Energy Smallworld
4.4.7 IBM
4.4.8 Infosys Limited
4.4.9 Intergraph Corporation
4.4.10 Mettenmeier
4.4.11 Oracle
4.4.12 Telvent (Schneider Electric)
4.4.13 Other Vendors
5. Market Forecasts
5.1 Utility GIS Market Definition
5.2 Total Software and Services Forecast
5.3 Software Market Trends
5.3.1 Type of Software Segment
5.3.1.1 GIS Tool Segment
5.3.1.1.1. AEC GIS Tool Segment
5.3.1.1.2. Operations GIS Tool Segment
5.3.2 Type of Workflow Segment
5.3.2.1 AEC Workflow
5.3.2.1.1. AEC GIS Workflow Segment
5.3.2.1.2. Operations GIS Workflow Segment
5.4 Services Market Trends
5.5 Regional Assumptions
5.5.1 North and Latin America
5.5.2 Europe
5.5.3 Asia Pacific and Middle East
5.6 Product Definitions
6. Company Directory
7. Acronym and Abbreviation List
8. Table of Contents
9. Table of Charts and Figures
10. Scope of Study, Sources and Methodology, Notes
List of Charts and Figures
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS-Related Software and Services Spending, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS-Related Software and Services Spending, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS-Related Services Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry Operations GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility AEC GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending, World Markets: 2011-2017
GIS Database Layers
Electric Utility GIS Architecture
Electric Utility GIS-related Applications
List of Tables
AEC and Operations GIS Tools and Workflow Applications Examples
Electric Utility AEC GIS Tool Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Electric Utility AEC GIS Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility AEC GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Electric Utility Industry Operations GIS Tool Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Electric Utility Industry Operations GIS Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry Operations GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Total Electric Utility Industry GIS Tool and Workflow Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
Electric Utility Industry GIS Tool Software Spending by Region, World Markets: 2011-2017
