The consortium which consists of Sygnity SA, MGGP SA and Intergraph Polska, whose leader is the Sygnity company, signed a contract with the Carpathian Gas Company for developing a design, construction, delivery and the implementation of the Infrastructure Managing System. The aim of the System implemented is the complete service of the business processes in the area of asset management rendered by gathering and processing information on all the aspects of the technical asset management of the Carpathian Gas Company.

The system in question will allow not only to reasonably manage the assets, which will result in significant savings, but also facilitate the process of joining new clients to the network. The implementation of the system in all 8 branches of the Carpathian Gas Company will consist of three stages and will continue for 3 years. The value of the order in question amounts to PLN 46,027,086.40 gross.

The Infrastructure Managing System will consist of the IT system SONET-GAZ (Sygnity) and tool platform GIS (Intergraph). The assets and geographic data necessary for the system operation will be acquired by MGGP. The SONET-GAZ system, whose supplier is Sygnity, is the software developed specially to satisfy the needs of gas companies. It is a central database of networks, field data, network facilities, clients, sales, exploitation, efficiency, quality, investments and planning. The system provides for a complete integration of the business processes with the asset management database managed in the GIS system.

The basic functions of the system are:

• The asset management inventory in the spatial database
• Network asset management
• Client service
• Network exploitation management
• Network operation optimization

The SONET-GAZ system operates in a multi-layer architecture with the application server in the Internet/Intranet access mode as well as with the possibility of access to the data by handheld computers (PDA). The spatial and descriptive data are gathered in a relational database. Owing to the application of the advanced function logic and server procedures, the system has a simple and scaled architecture.