With our new Orbit solution — powered by Microsoft’s Windows Azure™ cloud platform — allows utilities and telecommunications, field crews to quickly gather information in the field, at specific locations, and collaborate on field-oriented projects. Orbit includes mapping functionality that is vital to work execution and data capture, as well as online data services to manage the data captured during work. Orbit’s data services are secure, and user access to the system can be federated with your organization’s security model. Download this file to learn more abour Orbit.

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Orbit: A revolutionary approach
to field data collection
With our new Orbit solution — powered by Microsoft’s Windows
Azure™
cloud platform — allows utilities and telecommunications,
field crews to quickly gather information in the field, at specific
locations, and collaborate on field-oriented projects.
Orbit includes mapping functionality that is vital to work execution and data
capture, as well as online data services to manage the data captured during
work. Orbit’s data services are secure, and user access to the system can be
federated with your organization’s security model.
Unification of field work processes
Today, one of a utility’s biggest challenges is the number of field data capture
processes for each corresponding application, often running on a specific
device (point solutions). The number of devices needed to gather information
is costly — especially when you factor in the data conversion and transfer that
many of these point solutions require. Orbit can unify these disparate processes
into one configurable platform, driving down the total cost of ownership of field
data capture.
This challenge of cost impacts your ability to scale usage up to the amounts you
need to adequately capture information in the field. Information is vital to your
operations. Whether your crews are working to resolve a problem or prevent
future ones, the right information can help your organization to quickly send
instructions to and gather insight from the field. These robust, flexible capabilities
can support improved infrastructure, more efficient operations, and ultimately a
higher level of customer service.
Orbit as part of many field processes
Orbit is designed to accept work tasks from a variety of enterprise systems.
Where there is work in the field, there is typically a larger workflow in play at
your organization.
For gas distribution operators, compliance systems dictate an inspection
schedule that is in accordance with regulatory requirements — Orbit can
handle the valve inspection and cathodic test read tasks as part of your
compliance strategy.
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4. Orbit: A revolutionary approach
to field data collection
Electric utilities require a complete inventory of
third-party attachments on their overhead structures
and Orbit facilitates the capture of data to ensure
this complete inventory. In cases where facilities are
damaged by storms, flooding, or other catastrophic
events Orbit allows workers to quickly assess
damage and support restoration efforts. It uses the
native capabilities of the mobile device: GPS for
coordinate information, the on-board camera to take
pictures, and a touch-oriented user experience that
field workers find familiar with the devices and apps
they use in their personal lives.
With many of these cases, organizations might
use temporary, contract, or intern labor to complete
field tasks. It’s important to focus the user on the
data you require, and also to capture key information
about task completion — what time was the task
completed? Where was the worker when the task was
completed — were they where they should’ve been?
Gathering information made easy
Orbit allows your field and office personnel to easily
communicate between disparate systems, such as
mobile clients, desktop/Web clients, and integrated
systems. The end result is a faster flow of vital
information from the field.
Orbit helps to better organize and support work from
a variety of places within your organization. With it,
you can:
• Quickly add new work types without custom code
• Allow crews to use a variety of devices —
even their own personal devices
• Minimize your infrastructure concerns
• Align with your own security standards
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Significant differences: the benefits of a
hosted solution
By relying on Orbit to meet your field-based
information gathering and communications needs,
you can lower your total cost of ownership.
It reduces the need for historically expensive
investments in hardware, software, and data
synchronization — things that contracts your
time-to-value.
In addition, it is scalable to meet and support your
usage — you can add users without affecting load
on your enterprise systems. And by providing task
management data storage to the cloud, it delivers
backups, availability, and security while minimizing
the burden of establishing and maintaining
capital infrastructure.
A hosted solution allows new aspects of reliability
that have not been possible before. Your field crews
can work whether your own internal network is down
or if outside communication is severed — updates
can happen even if field crews cannot connect to
your enterprise network. Further, a hosted solution
enhances reliability by guaranteeing that your data is
backed up and stored off site.
Your security model is our security model
With Orbit, you can provision users according to
your own security standards, as well as provide a
single sign-on solution. Orbit can federate with your
security model so that you can use the same login
criteria currently in place in your internal corporate
enterprise. Your field users can use the same login
that they use to connect to the corporate network.
User provisioning becomes seamless, password
strength standards are maintained, and users can
easily get connected. This ease of access control
also makes it very easy to revoke or change access.

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The difference is in the apps
The Orbit mobile application can run on Windows®
7,
Windows®
8, and iPad.®
Because your data capture
needs change with time and ever-changing regulatory
environments, Orbit is configurable. You can add
new work types or change existing ones without
worrying about customizing software on the dozens,
hundreds, or thousands of mobile devices you have
in place. You can change your inspection processes
in minutes, as opposed to days or weeks. Users can
perform tasks offline, without hard dependencies
upon network connectivity — you can be out of
communication range and still get things done.
Your data models, your data
Bring your own data model for field data capture
activities — no custom software is required to begin
collecting vital information. Stand up new types of
inspections in minutes where it once took days or
weeks. And rest assured that the data you gather is
yours — you own it, we just store it for you.
Orbit is geospatially-enabled using your GIS; where
you store it. We do not host your GIS data — you
do. Do you have strong feelings about where your
GIS data should be stored? Good, so do we. Orbit
works with your stored GIS data.
As an Esri Business Partner of almost 30 years,
we work seamlessly with ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS
Online for Organizations, and with ArcGIS Server
implementations that you may already have in place.
With Orbit, you can make the most of what you
already have and expand the value of your GIS quickly.

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August 2013