This document discusses how maps and geographic information systems (GIS) have evolved with technology. Maps are now dynamic and adapt as the world changes. GIS has become relevant to analyzing most data due to its geographic component. Tech Mahindra offers GIS services and solutions, including for network planning, engineering, and customer service for telecom companies. They provide experienced GIS consultants and have implemented solutions for clients around the world.

1. Connect to the
world around you
Connect to the
world around you

2. A map was once a simple piece of paper. Its
information was limited by time and scale. With
the onslaught of various technologies that we
live with today, things have changed. A map is
now a living document. And as the world
changes, your maps adapt. Global trends like
smartphones, context- and location-based
search, climate change, crowdsourcing and so
on have brought GIS to the cross-roads of
various technology lanes. And this is only the tip
of the iceberg. Experts say that 70-80% per
cent of all forms of data/information in this
world possesses some geographical reference
and GIS becomes immediately relevant here.
Matured IT standards and interoperable
systems have expanded the scope of GIS
across many applications. The global GIS
engineering applications market will see double
digit growth till 2016, as per Geospatial Today
magazine. Our vision is to continuously
collaborate with our customers and partners to
achieve proliferation of GIS applications across
the world, across all channels—desktop, web
and mobile.
Our GIS practice combines the power of GIS
technology with extensive domain knowledge to
develop powerful spatial technology solutions
that integrate seamlessly with your IT
framework. At our GIS group, we are constantly
striving to provide innovative solutions and solve
your problems leveraging our multiple years of
GIS, IT and vertical play. Be it the operational
improvement of public utilities, telecom network
planning, logistics optimization or vehicle
telematics applications, we pride ourselves on
having worked with some of the world's best
organizations and governments – world's
second biggest Municipal Corporation, India's
largest corporate group – all have been our
clients. Through our cross-functional synergies
across multiple domains, we are able to bring
the best of all the worlds together to provide
you simple and frugal solutions to your complex
problems.
Welcome to the GIS world of Tech Mahindra!
Connect to the world around you

3. GIS Service Offerings for Telecom
We offer a wide range of GIS based services that include consulting, pilot projects, database design and
development, application design and development, enterprise systems integration, Internet GIS and
implementation.
Tech Mahindra offers an array of GIS based solutions for the
telecom industry:
- Network Planning can be enabled through network congestion
studies and capacity calculations.
- Plant Engineering benefits from outside plant (OSP) network
design and it simplifies facilities management, reporting and
data modeling.
- Field Engineering using rich and focused functionality offered
through GIS based solutions that can be accessed on the field
with laptops and smartphones.
- Wireless Network Engineering through wave propagation
modeling, 3D rendering and spatial analysis.
- Wireless Network Optimization by adjusting network
parameters offers the ability to improve network performance
through integration with planning tools and visualization and
analysis.
- Customer Service through wireless coverage locators, store
locating and WiFi hotspot locating for customers.
- Sales Support by mapping existing customers and new
prospects to the backbone. The system allows pre-defined
queries, prospect-to-backbone distance calculations, data
visualization and automated reports and maps for the sales
force to be more efficient and productive in targeting
prospects.
Solutions

4. Why Us?
Tech Mahindra has over 13 years' experience in offering innovative GIS based solutions to customers around
the globe. We have:
We follow a technology driven, service led approach to solution delivery. We follow well defined processes and
deliver best-in-class solutions. Over the years, we have developed, tested and implemented a variety of pre-
built and reusable solutions that can offer significant productivity improvements and reduce cost. We are
committed to:
- Delivering the highest quality standards
- Reducing cycle times
- Implementing cost effective solutions
- Executed 50+ projects - Significant experience across consulting,
project management, application
- Over 900 person-years' experience in GIS development, implementation and training,
testing, maintenance and support, SDM and- 50+ application consultants
system upgrades
- 500+ associates working on Spatial Data
- Expertise in GIS technologies such as ESRI, GEManagement (SDM)
Smallworld, Autodesk and OpenGIS
- Expertise Domains like Telecom, Energy &
- Alliances with leaders in GIS such asUtilities, Government, Transportation and
Autodesk, ESRI and GE SmallworldHealthcare
- A team that has been involved in the product
development of Smallworld since its inception

5. Case Study 1: Telenet, Belgium
Brief: Smallworld GIS upgrade
Telenet is the largest provider of broadband cable services in Belgium. Telenet provides cable television, high
speed internet and telephony services primarily to residential customers in Flanders. Telenet also offers
services to business customers all across Belgium and in Luxembourg under its brand Telenet Solutions.
Telenet offers its residential services through the combination of its cable network, which passes some 1.6
million homes in Flanders, and through its long-term usage rights on cable networks which pass a further 0.8
million homes in Flanders. Telenet has direct relationships with all of its internet and telephony customers.
Telenet also offers voice, data and internet services to its business customers through its fiber backbone,
which covers all Belgium and Luxembourg.
Telenet required an upgrade of its existing network inventory system from Model.IT2.0.1 to Physical Network
Inventory (PNI) 4.0 for managing their vast fiber network. However, the upgrade posed a major challenge
because a direct upgrade of the database was not possible. The database was initially upgraded to Model.IT
2.0(2) which is based on GE Smallworld Core product 3.1 SP1. A series of other upgrades were performed
to upgrade the database to PNI 4.0. Apart from the database upgrade, we:
- Re-wrote all customized models from Model.IT for the
upgrade
- Ported all applications to PNI 4.0
- Re-developed applications that did not have the source
- Developed a host of new applications like Street Locator,
Easy Browser as per requirements
- Deployed the Smallworld database on a powerful new server
- Synchronized network data to an Oracle database
We used the following tools for the project:
- Spatial Object Manager
- DXF Translator
- Dimension Toolkit
- Lightpath
Case Studies
Highlights
- Developed thousands of OSP
models
- Reduced reloading efforts
significantly
- Automated configuration by over
40%
- Effort completed entirely offshore
- Used ESRI ArcGIS Desktop and
Telcordia Network Engineer

6. Case Study 2: British Telecom
Brief: Outside Plant (OSP) Model Building
British Telecom required a comprehensive (OSP) Model Builder for all outside plant elements. The primary
requirements were:
- Validating and automating the loading of OSP data
- Adding new models to support the expansion of telecom models
- Maintaining the database of existing facilities
- Loading OSP data to Network Engineer (NE)
Highlights
- Improved data capture
- Easier data sharing
- Efficient planning and design of fiber network
- Better response time for complex data validation
- User friendly HMI for easy usage
Case Studies

7. Case Study 3: Singapore Land Authority – Land Hub
Brief: Wireless@SG Coverage Map
Wireless@SG Coverage Map is a free service that allows users
to search Wireless@SG coverage areas and to locate them on a
map. The tool allowed users to search for and find the nearest
Wireless@SG hot zones and hotspots in their vicinity or other
locations.
The tool allows users to:
- Search for land parcels and find out whether they are private
or public
- View wireless coverage and non-coverage areas (Wireless@SG)
- Get information about wireless points available by clicking wireless hotspot points (Wireless@SG)
We used the following tools to
develop the application:
- Microsoft .net 2005
- ArcGIS Server 9.2
- ArcSDE 9.2
- Oracle 10g
Case Studies

8. For more information; write to connect@techmahindra.com
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