Kiwis automate government services

NAPIER, NEW ZEALAND: The City Council of Napier, New Zealand, will leverage asset and work order management software to help maintain the city's water and wastewater assets, as well as its various parks, reserves and public spaces. It is going for Accela Automation software.

It shares further in a press note that as one of New Zealand's popular tourist destinations, Napier needs to ensure that its infrastructure and public assets serve not only the resident population of nearly 60,000, but many thousands of annual visitors.

The city estimates the new software will eventually track close to 100,000 individual assets. Napier currently uses different kinds of asset management software running on separate databases, which lowers efficiency and reduces visibility across asset classes.

The new deployment will allow local and regional governments to efficiently track and manage their assets and resources, providing an automated solution for costing, inventory, maintenance, investigations, and inspections, intelligent analysis and maintenance capability to keep critical infrastructure performing at peak condition, integration across disparate departments and systems by allowing customers to create their own work processes without the need for re-programming.

Napier, also known as New Zealand's ‘Art Deco City’,  is located on New Zealand's North Island, about 330 kilometers northeast of the national capital Wellington. It is better known as one of the largest apple, pear and stone-fruit producing areas in New Zealand, and has become an important grape-growing and wine-production area.