Using MapInfo’s flagship infrastructure asset management solution, Confirm, the company will provide the council with ‘a single, manageable database solution across a wide range of corporate asset management needs’.

Dave Gordon, corporate director of environment & infrastructure services for Aberdeen City Council, said the solution would help it achieve its obligations under local and central Government directives as well as its own corporate objectives.  ‘Aberdeen is driving up operational efficiencies and driving down costs,’ he said.  ‘Pivotal to delivering on these goals is a robust up-to-the-minute record system embracing all our location-based assets, creating inventories and logging and evaluating maintenance requirements and costs.  Confirm not only delivers on all our asset management needs, but opens up a wealth of wider benefits through ease of integration with other related council services - critically, finance.’

The system is expected to bring a range of new and legacy systems within a single database.  Deployment and training is expected take 12 months. Key infrastructure and maintenance services managed by the system include roads and highways, street lighting, grounds maintenance, refuse collection and management of public buildings.