Business Editors & Technology Writers
NEW YORK & LOVELAND, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 2002
GiveMePower Corporation's Windows CE(R) Mobile/Wireless
Handheld CAD Software Reduces Costs And Improves Productivity
For Central Colorado City
Although the City of Loveland lacked the substantial capital needed to implement a more costly solution, in order to meet its future requirements, the City required a way for its field staff and external contractors to remotely access critical, up-to-date municipal mapping data housed in the City's AutoCAD Map GIS computer system. After months of research, the City selected PowerCAD CE running on Microsoft's Windows CE(R)-based Pocket PCs as a powerful, yet simple to use mobile/wireless extension to AutoCAD Map, successfully integrating the two software systems in a matter of hours.
"As a small municipality, we simply could not afford the expensive GIS solutions that our larger counterparts could," says Stephen Krajewski, GIS Specialist, Water and Power Department, City of Loveland. "Our Water and Power and Land Records Departments are constantly providing engineers, field crews, locators and other contractors access to maps and drawings from our master file. Before implementing PowerCAD CE, we were only able to provide this information in a 290-page printed map book, which is very costly to produce and update."
"By adding PowerCAD CE as our mobile GIS extension, I can now take digital maps to the field, displaying and editing them directly on my Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC. This not only reduces the need for map books, it ensures we are working with and updating the latest information. I could not do this with any other mobile software we tried," Krajewski concluded.
Bill Walton, President and CEO of GiveMePower commented, "Our PowerCAD CE is the only mobile CAD system that provides the power of a desktop CAD system on handheld Windows CE computers. This lets clients like the City of Loveland instantly mobilize their workforce without having to change their existing systems and practices. There is a real demand in small municipalities for this combination of full-featured mobile CAD in a GIS environment."
With hundreds of intuitive and industry compliant commands, PowerCAD CE runs as a completely self-contained portable CAD system, or as a mobile extension for PowerCAD Pro(TM), AutoCAD(R) and other leading desktop CAD and GIS systems. For advanced mobile CAD users, PowerCAD CE Pro features advanced 2D and 3D functionality and complete system customization using LISP and Visual C++ programming.
PowerCAD mobile and desktop software solutions are available for purchase and free trial from the GiveMePower website at www.givemepower.com, or by calling 888-97-POWER. Agent and developer partner inquiries are welcome.
About GiveMePower Corporation
GiveMePower is a rapidly emerging software and services company delivering affordable, high-performance desktop and mobile/wireless software solutions for the multi-billion dollar design/build market. A Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Mobile Solutions Partner, GiveMePower is the first company to offer full-powered, AutoCAD(R) compatible computer-aided design (CAD) systems optimized for handheld computers running Microsoft's Windows CE(R) mobile operating system. More than 100,000 users and business partners in 40 countries around the world power their designs and collaborate on their projects using GiveMePower technologies. For more information, visit www.givemepower.com.
About The City of Loveland
Known locally as the "Gateway to the Rockies," the City of Loveland is located just 45 miles north of Denver, Colorado, nestled against the foothills on Highway 34 that leads to Rocky Mountain National Park.
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