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City of Vancouver, Washington Adds Enterprise
Asset Management to its Existing Automation Project
RANCHO CORDOVA, California - November 8,
2005 - Hansen Information Technologies
(Hansen®) today announced that it was selected
to provide a comprehensive enterprise asset management
solution for the City of Vancouver, Washington.
The new solution will complement Hansen's Utility
Billing system currently being implemented. Hansen
will license its Building/Plant/Fleet, Parks, Sewer,
Storm, Street and Water asset management modules,
as well as Hansen Mobile Solutions, Pavement Management,
Visual Resource Manager, Advanced Inventory Control,
GeoAdministrator and Integrated Map Viewer.
"We are excited to provide Vancouver with another
work management tool to help manage the City's assets," said
Chuck Hansen, Chairman and CEO of Hansen Information
Technologies.
In 2004, the City of Vancouver began implementation
of Hansen's Utility Billing to manage billings and
customer service of their City's population of 155,000. "When
we became aware of Hansen's ability to manage large
volumes of data, we decided the next logical step
would be to add their asset management," said
Richard Hoffman, Operations Superintendent, Streets
Department. "With Hansen's enterprise solutions,
we know we can save time and money."
According to the City's 2004 Comprehensive Annual
Financial Report, for the period ending December
31, 2004, the City valued its capital assets at $593.8
million, representing 72% of the City's total assets.
Together with the installation of our utility billing
system and account receivable module, Hansen is pleased
to be managing over 75% of the City's municipal assets," commented
Chuck Hansen.
Currently, Hansen is assisting the City of Vancouver,
Washington in integrating to their Oracle Financials
and Payroll system to provide a seamless operation,
saving time by eliminating duplication. Hansen's
Asset Management module will integrate directly with
payroll. Project technical lead Rich McKee, from
the City of Vancouver's Information Technology Department,
expressed a growing opinion among agencies: "We
want to capture Hansen's agency-wide vision so all
of our departments can benefit from a streamlined
process. Today, we all have to do more with less
and Hansen can make that possible."
"Our goal is to make government business efficient
and cost-effective," said Chuck Hansen.
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