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Adept for Transportation, Utilities & Communications
In the transportation, public utilities and communications industries, profitability depends on many factors including efficient operations, controlling maintenance expenses, and adequate safety records. Commercial, government, and residential needs and consumer spending drive demand, which, in turn depend on economic activity, government regulations, energy prices, and population growth. The pressure is on to increase production and availability in the current economic climate while controlling costs and sustaining high quality service to customers. As the volume of information you must manage grows exponentially, inefficiencies in accessing, managing, and sharing design and business documents across the enterprise has a profound impact on your ability to sustain and thrive.

Adept document management and workflow solutions provide secure, centralized document access to users across the enterprise, and ensure version control and an audit trail for each document throughout its lifecycle. Adept is tightly integrated with leading CAD systems including AutoCAD and MicroStation, and includes visualization software to provide, view, markup and compare of up to 450 file types to authorized users. Adept allows you to automate workflow processes to streamline operations, and enables collaboration across departments, geographic locations, and with external contractors. With Adept, your organization will be more efficient, productive and connected, positioning you to offer superior service while keeping costs under control.

Business Benefits

  • Efficient Operations - Whether it’s business as usual or an emergency situation, Adept provides immediate access to the correct version of your design and business documents to users across the enterprise
  • Secure and control electronic documents - Ensure the integrity of your mission critical electronic documents and maintain an audit trail for each document throughout its lifecycle
  • Achieve and maintain regulatory compliance - Maintain complete, accurate technical documentation for your assets to comply with legal and safety regulations
  • Automate workflow and improve collaboration - Automate document workflow and approval processes, and enable departments to share and review design and business documents efficiently
  • Improve overall quality and accuracy of information - With documents managed within Adept, you can implement and enforce document control standards, approval processes and best practices that are otherwise difficult to manage.
  • Reduce risk - Real-time information about projects, processes, operational performance, and markets provides early warning of changes, giving you time to adapt to shifts in demand, customer requirements, and economic conditions
  • Make informed decisions - With easy access to reliable information, organizations can make better-informed decisions at every stage of a project
  • Enable enterprise visualization - Provide local or remote team members with instant visualization, markup and compare capabilities for up to 450 file types including 2D and 3D CAD, Office, PDF, and raster formats.
  • Enhanced collaboration with external contractors - Adept simplifies collaboration on technical documentation with external contractors
  • Increase design productivity with Adept’s tight integration with mainstream CAD packages - Adept is tightly integrated with AutoCAD, Inventor, SolidWorks, MicroStation and others, managing file relationships, linking to file attributes (AutoCAD) and tags (MicroStation) and providing native application visualization, markup and compare capabilities.
  • Find and re-use existing designs - Adept’s full text and structured search capabilities allow CAD users to quickly find and re-use existing design data. Adept also provides the ability to quickly and easily copy and rename complete designs including all related files
  • Integrate with other business systems - Interoperability between Adept and other business systems ensures data accuracy and eliminates redundant data entry.
  • Eliminate paper storage and reduce costs associated with paper output - Reclaim office space that was used to store paper drawings and documents, and enable faster, more accurate electronic document access, visualization, markup and collaboration, reducing expensive hardcopy output and distribution.

A Collection of our Transportation, Utilities & Communications Clients

Associated Air Center
Cox Communications
DirectTV
Empire City Subway
Energy Solutions
Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority
Lifetime Television
Massachusetts Port Authority
Northeast Utilities
Pedernales Electric

Philadelphia International Airport
Port of Houston Authority
PPL
PSEG Power Connecticut
SCANA
Sound Transit
Triangle Telephone Cooperative
True Position
Turlock Irrigation District