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For the last 3-and-a-bit years I've been contracted by United
Utilities (UU). For the final year I have been a Technical
Lead/Lead Developer/Senior Developer.
At the core of the projects we delivered was integration with
Mincom Ellipse, an Enterprise Asset Management application. Ellipse
is a powerful asset management tool but hard to rollout and train
to a large work force.
We built a suite of applications (commonly called GTI) using the
.Net Framework (2.0 and 3.5). Each application had a single purpose
and enforced the company's business rules and processes in the
distribution and collection of Ellipse data. It also enabled the
user interface to be tailored to the users needs. This was hugely
beneficial as many of the users were not very handy with a
computer.
The GTI suite was valued at over £100 million in terms of
business benefit. Asset and work data quality increased greatly and
Ellipse is once again at the core of the company.
The success of GTI was enough to get the UK distributors of
Mincom Ellipse, AMT Sybex, interested. AMT published a case study
in one of their publications.
After 3 enjoyable years it's time to move on.