David Indeed the process of ...
Published by John Leeuwenburg, Global Product Manager Water Office at Realworld Systems
David
Indeed the process of managing data for assets is extremely laborious. It is paramount that you have a software system that manages assets, which inherently provides you the building blocks to manage data on every asset. Biased as it may seem, I would recommend GE Smallworld for asset management and than any of the commercial off the shelf apps they have for telecom, electricity, gas and water. For water and drainage, www.wateroffice.com provides COTS solution on the GE Smallworld platform. BTW, a GIS does not provide this type of functionality out of the box although geographical referencing is one of those blocks. You have to build it. Hope this helps you.
Gr John