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Mettenmeier Down-Under

Melbourne, November 2004

Leading GE Smallworld service provider Mettenmeier GmbH has opened it's Asia/Pacific Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia - trading as Mettenmeier (Australia) Pty Ltd.

"This move signifies our global commitment to bring our suite of standard network data and process models (NRM) to the International Market"; explains Ulrich Mettenmeier, CEO of the Mettenmeier Group of Companies headquartered in Paderborn, Germany.

The Network Resource Managers (NRM), developed by Mettenmeier, provide Smallworld GIS customers with standard data models and applications chosen by more than 300 organisations in Europe. More than 10 years of development tailored specifically to the client's needs have made NRM the state-of-the-art solution resulting in an International Standard for electricity, gas, water and wastewater.

The high market acceptance rate of the Network Resource Manager is also mirrored in the numerous supplementary products that exist today. These include network calculation, operation, analysis, periodic network integrity checking, network control and interfaces e.g. with SAP.

Traditionally Smallworld customers around the globe have used the power of the object-oriented GIS to develop their own data and process models fitting their individual business requirements without cross-industry or cross-country standardisation attempts. While this approach has given every customer close to exactly what they required, it becomes a significant issue when core software updates are released and every customer has to go through extensive analysis and re-coding of the customisation layer.

The NRM approach differs as the vendor takes care of future-proofing the standardised data and process model and the individual customisations are reduced to the bare minimum, leading to commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software and greatly reduced cost of GIS ownership.