Australia’s Sunshine Coast Council Migrates to the Cloud with the Pitney Bowes Confirm® Asset Management Solution
June 11 2018 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a global technology company that
provides commerce solutions in the areas of ecommerce, shipping,
mailing, and data, today announced Software as a Service (SaaS)
contract with Australia’s Sunshine Coast Council for the
implementation of the Confirm® Asset Management solution.
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Australia’s Sunshine Coast, in the state of Queensland, is home
to 300,000 residents, and is served by the Sunshine Coast Council
(SCC) which delivers a range of public services to the region. The
council’s vision is to be Australia’s most sustainable region –
healthy, smart, creative. With the region experiencing high levels
of growth and development, the council manages a significant number
of built and natural assets, from roads to playgrounds, buildings
to parks and Smart City supporting infrastructure.
The region is expected to grow to over 500,000 residents by
2041, therefore SCC is looking for solutions which will enable them
to deal with and manage this growth efficiently and effectively and
to also assist their employees with the challenges that this growth
in infrastructure will bring.
For the Sunshine Coast region, smart technologies provide real
opportunities to build a stronger economy and improve service
delivery to residents, businesses and visitors. SCC is harnessing
the benefits of Smart City technologies to manage their assets by
upgrading digital systems that work together to deliver real-time
information and value to residents and benefit their communities
through digital connections, systems and sensors.
SCC is taking a ‘Cloud First’ Information Communication
Technology Services strategy, which provides a framework for the
council to deliver an intelligent, open approach to data built on
an API-based structure. Confirm interfaces with SCC’s financial
solution, as well as with its Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) and Geospatial systems, ensure seamless data management
across the organisation.
The SaaS-based Confirm asset management platform will:
- Increase the mobility of the council’s
workforce to allow it to serve its community more efficiently
- Collate data on SCC’s digital and
physical assets, helping to drive its capital budgets through
fact-based asset management
- Deliver accurate, consistent management
information in real time
- Deliver cost savings as a result of
improved business processes and innovative technology
- Give the council insight to make
informed decisions on the repair, maintenance and investment of its
critical assets
The platform includes the user friendly ConfirmWorkzone®
map-based scheduling solution which SCC will use to:
- Improve field resource management
- Boost workforce visibility
- Help to efficiently schedule and
dispatch field crews
A key component of the solution is ConfirmConnect®, which
ensures data is accessible in the field to the hundreds of staff
and contractors involved every day in maintaining and inspecting
SCC assets. ConfirmConnect ensures data and can be quickly shared
via mobile devices and tablets, driving collaboration and
productivity.
“The complexities of managing billions of dollars of assets,
while undergoing substantial growth, can be challenging. We are
responsible for forecasting the long-term strategic impact of every
SCC investment,” said Tom Jamieson, Sunshine Coast Council Group
Executive for the Built Infrastructure Group. “The Pitney Bowes
Confirm solution helps us accelerate our drive to digital. It also
supports our mobility strategy, fits with our SaaS strategy and
will deliver significant benefits to our council and community.
“This is one of many major system upgrades the council is
investing in, along with our Customer Relationship Management
System and Human Resources Management System, so having an Asset
Management System that interfaces with our other systems is
essential. We are delighted to be working with a company of the
stature of Pitney Bowes. They share our values and our pursuit of
significant savings as a result of a successful
implementation.”
Nigel Lester, managing director ANZ at Pitney Bowes Software
said, “We spent time understanding SCC’s vision for the future, as
well as their immediate needs. Understanding the drive towards
becoming a smart region helped us deliver a robust, futureproof
foundation for asset management. Confirm meets the council’s
objectives. Employees enjoy using the solution and it will help
them work, connect and collaborate quickly and effectively.”
Bob Guidotti, executive vice president and president, Pitney
Bowes Software said, “Access to real-time data is a very powerful
proposition: it can transform an organisation, connect and empower
teams, reveal insight and generate productivity. Using Confirm will
benefit SCC by providing them with up-to-the-minute, SaaS-based
information on millions of dollars’ worth of assets, accessible
from desktops and devices. Confirm will help SCC manage risk, stay
on top of maintenance, mobilise field workers and make decisions
with confidence.”
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) is a global technology company providing
commerce solutions that power billions of transactions. Clients
around the world, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500, rely on
the accuracy and precision delivered by Pitney Bowes solutions,
analytics, and APIs in the areas of ecommerce fulfillment, shipping
and returns; cross-border ecommerce; presort services; office
mailing and shipping; location data; and software. For nearly 100
years, Pitney Bowes has been innovating and delivering technologies
that remove the complexity of getting commerce transactions
precisely right. For additional information, visit Pitney Bowes,
the Craftsmen of Commerce,
at https://www.pitneybowes.com/us.
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