The objective of the GIS Foundation project is to create and maintain a consolidated, central repository for all geo-referenced asset data, which will allow a single point asset query across all business processes and supporting systems as well as display the spatial representation of the Thames Water network and property assets. Successful completion of this project will enable improvements to risk analysis and hydraulic modelling that are required by the Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI). TCS is implementing the project for Thames Water and is using 1Spatial’s Radius Studio product to assist with the data migration.

All Utilities, under the Water Act 1991 and the New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) Section 79/80, are required to display a current mapping background. Thames Water needed a solution that would allow them to migrate legacy Land-Line based data, used by a number of discrete GIS applications, into an OS MasterMap® data system.

1Spatial’s Radius Studio product was recognised by TCS as being able to assist with data management challenges, therefore enabling Thames Water to make efficiency gains in their important risk analysis and hydraulic modelling activities.

Radius Studio was selected for its low risk, highly automated, COTS-based solution approach and will meet the requirements of the GIS Foundation project whilst contributing towards improved efficiency of the Thames Water GIS environment in the future.

Stephen Field, Business Development Manager for TCS said:

"We are delighted to be working with 1Spatial on this project for Thames Water. Their Radius Studio product provides an off-the-shelf solution and will make a valuable contribution towards delivering this project on time and on budget.”

Duncan Guthrie, Managing Director for 1Spatial, added:

“1Spatial is proud to have been chosen by TCS to contribute to a project for such a well-known organisation as Thames Water.  At a time when service providers are subject to an increasingly competitive market place, we are pleased to assist Thames Water with their GIS Foundation project by providing them with a comprehensive, cost-effective solution.”

About 1Spatial

1Spatial has 35 years of experience in providing operational solutions to organisations with large spatial databases. With leading expertise in transforming data from CAD and GIS, quantitative data quality control, and spatial database technologies we also enable reuse and repurposing of such data and access through both internal and external portals. The modern era demands the unconstrained sharing of spatial data between systems, business areas, organisations, and the public. We are the specialists in enabling such cooperative infrastructures. www.1spatial.com

About TCS

Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services and business solutions organisation that delivers real results to global businesses, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model™, recognised as the benchmark of excellence in software development.  A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has over 108,000 of the world's best trained IT consultants in 47 countries. The company generated consolidated revenues of US $4.3 billion for fiscal year ended 31st March, 2007 and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.

About Thames Water

Thames Water Utilities is the UK’s largest water and wastewater services company with over 4,000 employees providing service around the clock to 13 million customers across London and the Southeast of England.

Thames Water is a regulated Utility providing both water and wastewater treatment services and has a strong track record of regulatory out-performance and service excellence. Drinking water quality is above 99.9% with all UK and EU water quality standards.

The company operates 99 water treatment works and 349 sewage treatment works, including the UK’s largest at Beckton in East London. They also maintain and operate 31,100km of water mains and 68,000km of sewers.