ArcGIS 10.1 UpgradeCowlitz PUD & SSP Innovations

Dean Perry

Account Manager

SSP Innovations

dean.perry@sspinnovations.com

Kevin Ward

GIS Analyst

Cowlitz PUD

kward@cowlitzpud.org

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Agenda

● Introductions

●Business Drivers

● Components

● Testing

● Training

● Production

●Questions

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Cowlitz PUD Overview

●Customers: 49,687

●Employees: 168.50

●Residential Electric Rate: 7.2¢ kWh

●Miles of Transmission line: 124.39

●Underground Primary Distribution: 1,249.68 Miles

●Overhead Primary Distribution: 628.72 Miles

●Poles:19,342

●Transformers: 20,806

●www.cowlitzpud.org

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Cowlitz PUD’s GIS Software

●ESRI

● ArcGIS

● ArcGIS Server

●Schneider

● ArcFM

● Designer

● Fiber Manager

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SSP Innovations

●GIS and WMS consulting company working in the utility industry

● United States utilities exclusively

● Includes Electric, Gas, Water, Wastewater/Sewer, Fiber

●Strong partnerships with Schneider Electric and Esri

● Certified to implement/integrate/customize entire SE & Esri GIS suite

● Work closely with sales, product and support staff from SE

●Led upgrade to 10.x at ten SE utilities nationwide

● Wide variety of sizes and customization/integration profiles

●Started talking with Tia and Kevin mid-year last year

● Received support from Rick Frymyer

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Version Release DateGeneral

Availability Extended Support Mature Support Retired Notes

10.2 July 2013 X

10.1 June 2012 XArcGIS 10.1 will be moved to Extended support on December 31, 2013

10.0 June 2010 X - June 2012ArcGIS 10 will be retired on December 31, 2013

9.3.1 April 2009 X - June 2012ArcGIS 9.3.1 will be retired on December 31, 2013

Business Drivers

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Upgrade Scope

Old Production

●Windows 2003

●Oracle 10g

●ESRI 9.3.1 SP1

●Telvent 9.3.1 SP1

●Telvent Integration

Framework

New Production

●Windows 2008 R2

●Oracle 11g

●ESRI ArcGIS 10.1 SP1

●Schneider ArcFM 10.1

●Schneider Integration

Framework 10.1

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Cayenta Integration Workflow

● Cayenta 7.5

● Cayenta 7.6.1

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Time Frame

●Begin upgrade offsite (SSP’s office) - July 1st 2013

●Test Upgrade (Cowlitz’s office) – July 22nd to July 19th 2013

● Production Upgrade - Go Live - August 12th 2013

●Total of 30 work days (including some long days)

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Test Upgrade Week Successes

●Telvent Integration Framework (TIF)

● It works!

●7.5 & 7.6.1 Cayenta

●Testing

9.3.1 GIS to 7.6.1 Cayenta

10.1 GIS to 7.5 Cayenta

10.1 GIS to 7.6.1 Cayenta

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Training

●SSP Innovations

● Power Users Course

● End Users Course

● 15 Employees Trained

●Cowlitz PUD

● Future internal GIS Training

● Development of employee skills

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Production Upgrade

●Weekend upgrade

● Thursday -> Froze production at 5:00pm

● Friday ->

●Upgraded database and initial

testing performed

● Saturday & Sunday -> Upgraded ~50

client machines

● Monday -> System upgraded and users

back online

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Cowlitz & SSP Innovations

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Lessons Learned● Installer Lessons

● Uninstall custom components FIRST

●Database Lessons

● Privileges

● Tablespace Capacity

● OPEN_CURSOR setting

●Client Lessons

● PDF Memory setting

●Documentation Lessons

● Cowlitz Documentation of Processes

● SSP Turnover Document

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Questions?