Water-First Asset Management Software

Water-First Asset Management - What Does That Mean?

MentorAPM was built first for water and wastewater utilities and designed to competently manage the complex assets and systems inside them.

Very often, utilities that are managed by cities are bundled with streets departments, parks and recreation facilities and other city services by city managers who want a single asset management solution to license and manage.

But a water utility has way more in common with a chemical plant than with roads or libraries or buildings. Process assets have way more complexity, and much higher stakes if they aren't managed properly.

When decision makers prioritize finding a one-size-fits-all-assets CMMS or EAM, a water or wastewater utility usually gets stuck with a facilities-first, GIS-first or public sector asset management solution that simply can't deliver what the utility needs for reliable, resilient and sustainable operations.

Different Kinds of "Asset Management" Systems

Facilities-first solutions are about real estate, buildings, space allocation, janitorial maintenance and simpler assets like roofs and plumbing. These systems can also have roots in construction management. They manage people and space data and are suitable for corporate offices or server farms and favored by organizations like Meta, Amazon or Walmart. These are systems like IBM Tririga or NEXGEN.

GIS-first solutions are designed for distributed assets spread out over a geographical area like roads and bus stops. Location is important but these systems can’t competently address the complex assets inside your treatment facilities. Cityworks, Cartegraph and Novotx Elements are examples of GIS-based systems that offer permitting, Land Information Management, and street and sidewalk management to public works departments. An important drawback to understand is that these systems are built on the architecture of a GIS database which limits the ability to manage assets by anything other than location.

Public sector asset management systems are mainly about accounting, reporting and resource tracking and are actually Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems that include limited asset management. These systems deliver government workforce productivity and HR, municipal permitting, budgeting, and payroll to state and local government agencies, K-12 school districts and community organizations. Infor Cloudsuite Public Sector and Tyler Munis are common public sector solutions.

Why is MentorAPM the best asset management solution for water and wastewater utilities?

We know that water and wastewater utilities include facilities with network and distributed assets. We also know that financial management is very important. MentorAPM addresses all these needs – GIS, buildings, accounting and reporting, mobile work management – but within a framework that understands and supports the complexity of a whole utility operation.

We provide an end-to-end asset lifecycle management platform that knows how to manage complex treatment process assets and distributed underground assets that are required to deliver a level of service within a regulated environment.

MentorAPM Asset Management solutions are built on the founders' decades of experience managing and working with utility operations. The platform is loaded with asset management best practices, asset models and asset strategies, specific to water and wastewater operation, and ready to go out-of-the-box.

MentorAPM – more than a CMMS. Built for water first.

Book a discovery call to see how MentorAPM can help your utility kick asset management.

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