7 Reasons to Stop Using Spreadsheets for Maintenance Scheduling

7 Reasons to Stop Using Spreadsheets for Maintenance Scheduling

Did you know 90% of spreadsheets contain errors? Businesses don’t often utilize spreadsheets correctly, which leads to challenges in maintenance planning and scheduling. Spreadsheets were designed to organize data so data could be manipulated to calculate different elements. Spreadsheets are very versatile, so they are found in many businesses. Despite spreadsheets being popular, they often…

Case Study: Seattle Parks and Recreation

Case Study: Seattle Parks and Recreation

Why Seattle Parks and Recreation is Advancing with Enterprise Asset Management Every city has a distinct personality, forged from its history, topography and many generations of citizens. For the city of Seattle, Washington, the backbone of its unique personality stems from its Department of Parks and Recreation. Managing the City’s 6,200-acre park system of 400+…

Capitalizing on Capital Planning: 3 Steps to Plan Success

Capitalizing on Capital Planning: 3 Steps to Plan Success

Does your organization have a strategic asset management tool? If it does, then you should be familiar with streamlined capital planning procedures. Hopefully, this blog will encourage you to try new approaches to capital planning. If your organization does not – then get ready. Let’s capitalize on your capital planning and upgrade your organization today….

Webinar: Capital Planning for Public Works

Why Does a Software Implementation Fail? How Can You Prevent It?

Projects of all kinds fail for a myriad of reasons. Whether it is scope creep, failure to adhere to a Scope of Work (SOW), organizational dysfunction, personality conflicts or technical limitations, a project may end up not working out. Common risks have a tendency to doom any project if not recognized and mitigated early on….

The Wonderful World of Work Management

The Wonderful World of Work Management

Public works departments are responsible for a lot of aspects of a successful community – traffic and road repair, sewer and sign maintenance, parks and recreation and more! How do all of these tasks get accomplished? Well, if an organization takes an efficient and comprehensive approach to work order management, they can see noticeable improvements…

how to manage work assignments in AssetWorks EAM software

4 Common Asset Management Problems (& How to Solve Them!)

My GIS data isn’t actionable! Assets and infrastructure exist across your entire community, which makes having an integrated GIS platform crucial. With GIS, organizations can view all of their assets and infrastructure on a map, but a common challenge is incorporating this data into an effective asset management strategy. In order to make this data useful for…