Optional Modules Expand Functionality

 Optional modules are full-featured, specialized applications which integrate instantly into the software. Modules can be user-modified to accommodate additional asset types.

Examples of how the Optional modules expand functionality:

 Using optional modules, assets such as Roads, Bridges, Lights, Signs, Pumphouses, Manholes, Mains, Contracts, and more can be identified and created individually, and as networks. They can have GIS map references (and can even be imported from GIS systems), and work bi-directionally with ESRI, or ARCView, for example.

 These assets can be inspected, and referenced in Annual Work Plans, Work Orders, and Daily Work Reporting, making them part of every step, from planning to scheduling to being worked on, to the resultant cost accounting, job costing, and Planned versus Actual reports.

 Annual Work Plans can be created which identify assets to work on for each activity, using user-defined priorities which are determined by results of inspections against those assets. Users have the option to create Work Orders using resources in the Resource Classes identified for that activity in the Annual Work Plan, and reference assets from that plan.

 Internet-based Service Requests can be turned into Work Orders (selectively),and can (optionally) reference one or more assets and contain scheduled resources.

 Scheduled Work Orders can be displayed in calendar format, and provide managers a "Big Picture" view of all scheduled (and unscheduled) Work Orders, and allow them to schedule the unscheduled ones, re-schedule existing Work Orders to different dates, or unschedule them.

 Citizen satisfaction can be guaged for any or all Work Orders.

 Daily Work Reports, which are part of the Basic System, are enhanced by the optional modules. For example, when the Daily Work Report references the Work Order, the Work Order information (including assets and scheduled resources) can populate the Daily Work Report. Users have the option to assign resources based on the Resource Classes identified for that activity in the Annual Work Plan. Work Reports reference the assets, assigning costs to them and creating history for them, by activity.

 Resources, which also are part of the Basic System, are also enhanced by the optional modules. As examples, Inventory can be managed at a more detailed level using Warehouse Operations, and the basic Equipment/Fleet Maintenance module can use the Vehicle Replacement Program to forecast future replacement budgets, by department, by year.