The Topobase Insiders

The Topobase Links Compendium

You are searching for Topobase related information? Of course you are already on the right website: The Topobase Insiders. But there are plenty of other websites and resources available.

Here are the links:

• Knowledge Base
• Online Help
• Documentation
• Updates and Service Packs
• Discussion Groups
• White Papers
• Subscription Support
• Marketplace
• User Group Switzerland
• User Group Germany

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Topobase User Group in Switzerland

Yesterday I had a chance to attend the Topobase User Group event in Bern, Switzerland. More than 100 customers participated at the event in the Stade de Suisse:

 

...and no, we didn't play soccer against our customers and partners :-)

We had one customer who showed his Topobase 2010 implementation (pssst! over Citrix), we had partners (CADPartner, MuM, Geobox and Intercad) presenting their solutions and we had Autodesk employees showing the new features of Topobase 2010. I personally liked all the presentations and I thought it was a great event with lots of information shared.

Thanks everybody for making that happen! 

Here are some pictures:

 
Matthias Liechti in action

 

 
Live demo of Topobase 2010 Electric CE

 

 

The Geospatial Navigator

There is a new geospatial blog in the web! Some weeks ago two of our colleagues at Autodesk, Matthias Liechti and Markus Briglmeir started their own odyssey with their new (german) blog The Geospatial Navigator.

We wish all the best and a long future! Please do me a favour and visit them right now.

 
From left to right: Derrick, Matthias, Markus, Andreas
 

Starting the third year

In 10 days the Topobase Insiders blog celebrates it's second anniversary. The first post has been published on the June 6th in 2007 and it was about increasing the productivity. You can find it here. If you are interested in other former posts try out the archive or the search on the right hand side.

We also took the opportunity and refurbished the design of the blog. We hope you'll like it! Feedback is of course welcome.

Andreas, Derrick and Jeff would like to thank you and all the other visitors and readers of this blog!

MapGuide Best Practices Wiki online

Check it out here:

http://sandbox.mapguide.com

The intent is to make this site a ‘living whitepaper’ which can be used as a repository for the latest tips, tricks and best practices around Autodesk MapGuide® Enterprise and MapGuide Open Source.

That's it ! Topobase 2009 is born

I was quite busy in the last few months. Not that I forgot the blog, but I had to work on some features like plot, display model, wastewater inspection editor, electric for central europe etc.etc.. There is so much to say about Topobase 2009 that I'm preparing now several blogs which will describe it.

Utility + Topobase = 518% ROI!

In a previous blog I mentioned the ROI for Topobase projects. In summary, the highlights of the study published by IDC (full text: Download idc_topobase_utility_roi_whitepaper_nov_2007.pdf) are:

- Implementing Topobase had an average 3-year Return on Investment of 518%

- Topobase helped to reduce annual equipment and operational costs  $1.8 million per 100 users by greatly enhancing the ability to ensure the right equipment (trucks, cabling, pipes, etc.) was ordered and delivered to the right location in a just-in-time fashion.

- Topobase also delivered $1 million annual productivity benefits by reducing the number of users per project while at the same time increasing the number of projects completed.

I always say to Robin: "Don't become an engineer like Daddy, work in a Swiss bank!" Maybe that's a bad tip! :-)

I have not seen you at A.YOU!

... don't worry, I'm not angry ;-) You can download (Download TopobaseElectric.zip ) the slides that we presented with Vanessa Rojas and Alan Saunders. The topic of the presentation was the new Topobase Electric application. We will post some films of the live demo soon.

See you next year at AU !

Welcome to AU!

After travelling for 24 hours, I have arrived in Vegas for AU (http://au.autodesk.com). Don't miss the presentation of Topobase Electric on Wednesday.

Nice view from my hotel room.

Topobase Electric: ROI

I just read an interesting article "Integrating Infrastructure Design and Management Pays Big Dividends" about Topobase added value.