Elk River, Minnesota, April 8, 2005 - For the third consecutive year, United Services Group (USG) has received recognition awards from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), The GIS Software Leader.
Beginning in 2003, USG received ESRI’s prestigious Special Achievement in GIS Award (SAG) for providing outstanding GIS education and services to its customers. This award is given to users who embrace GIS technology and have made extraordinary contributions to our global society and set new precedents throughout the GIS community. Jack Dagermond, President of ESRI stated, “This award is being given to user sites around the world in recognition of their outstanding work in the GIS field. USG was selected to receive this award from over 100,000 user sites world wide. It is quite an honor.”
In 2004 USG received the New Partner of the Year Award. This is awarded to sites who have been an ESRI’s business partner for less than two years. USG worked together with ESRI to create ADELINE™, an automated staking solution for electric distribution systems. Through this effort and our continuing commitment to the education and development of GIS systems using ESRI technology, USG received ESRI’s New Business Partner of the Year Award for the Minneapolis region. This region covers six states and has approximately 150 business partners.
In 2005 USG received the Partner of the Year Award for the Minneapolis region. This award was based on USG’s release of a fully integrated version of ADELINE™. Built on top of ESRI’s ArcPad and MapObjects products, ADELINE™ is an automated staking solution used in the design of electric distribution line. With dedication to their customers and a strong understanding of ESRI technology, USG has become a valuable partner in bringing ESRI into new markets and geographies.
USG releases Adeline™ plug-in for ArcGIS at Tech Advantage 2005.
San Diego, California, February 24, 2005 - United Services Group (USG) announced today at the Tech Advantage 2005 Conference the release of its ADELINE™ Plug-In for ArcGIS. The “Plug-In” allows for the integration of a customers in-house Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Geographical Information System (GIS) with the mobile ADELINE™ design environment.
“ADELINE™ has come a long way since its initial release in 2004” said Richard Isle ADELINE™’s project manager. “Now with the plug-in complete the full capabilities of using ADELINE™ as your automated staking solution can be realized”.
The ADELINE™ Plug-In allows a staker/designer to create a project in the actual mapping environment. The designer can make draft changes to the system map as they stake. When construction is done and verified, the update of the maps can be as easy as the push of a button bringing in all graphics and data from the staking environment.
ADELINE™ is completely data model independent allowing integration with most industry standard data models. This natural interoperability amongst other industry software makes it an extremely flexible solution.
USG is part of a cooperative and these values carry over into its software development. ADELINE™ is being used by large and small electric utilities whose customer base ranges from just a few hundred to several thousand.
United Services Group Receives “New Partner of the Year” award by ESRI® 3/29/04
Excerpt from ESRI web page on 10/12/2004.
United Services Group (USG) is an engineering and consultant company that focuses on electric cooperative and municipal utilities. In its first year, USG showed the ability and desire to take its knowledge of ESRI technology into the small clients of the utility market. In addition to providing a wide range of mapping services, the firm has developed a staking application, ADELINE™, designed to work with ArcPad and ArcGIS. USG is proving that no client is too small to benefit from the value of GIS.