First Horizons Contracts for Yotta Australia

Yotta Australia, the authorised distributor of Horizons software for Australia and New Zealand, has won its first contracts for the visualised asset management platform. The recently signed software and service agreement will see Horizons being used to support two large-scale Maintenance Alliance Contracts encompassing more than 7,500kms of arterial road network for VicRoads, the road and traffic authority in the state of Victoria. Yotta Australia worked in partnership with Fulton Hogan, who successfully bid for the VicRoads tenders, demonstrating the power of Horizons for asset management, strategic works planning and scenario modelling.

“The inclusion of Horizons within our bid was a key selling point and differentiator,” commented Glenn Johnston, National Manager – Infrastructure Services at Fulton Hogan. “With support from Yotta Australia, we were able to communicate our proposals clearly and precisely and demonstrate how we would use the software to strategically plan works, making use of all available data to deliver better outcomes for the road network and the greater community.”

Fulton Hogan, a specialist with more than eighty years’ experience in the transport infrastructure sector, was awarded two Maintenance Alliance Contracts by VicRoads. Covering the Eastern and South Western Region, Fulton Hogan will deliver a complete range of maintenance services across the highways realm for an initial period of five years, with a possible extension of an additional five years. Yotta Australia supported Fulton Hogan throughout the bid process, using Horizons to demonstrate different scenarios and options available as part of the tender offering.

Horizons, a visualised asset management platform, was launched in the Australia New Zealand region in early 2015. Already established in the UK and Europe, Horizons is a cloud based solution designed to make it easier for asset managers to visualise, manage and optimise all their asset management strategies and records in a unique and effective way. Since launching to market in 2012, Horizons has revolutionised asset management across a range of applications and is now used in the UK by around 50 local authorities in addition to service partners and maintenance contractors.

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First Scottish Council to Adopt Yotta Horizons Aims to Boost Highways Maintenance Efficiency

North Ayrshire Council has become the first user in Scotland of Yotta’s Horizons visualised asset management platform. The cloud based solution will provide access to a wide range of highway asset inventory information. This will help to further improve the accuracy of financial returns and identify the costs associated with the maintenance of the road asset. Horizons will also be used to support existing maintenance prioritisation and cost projection tools. The Scottish Council will be able to enhance its ability to effectively target resources and forecast long term budgets based on a range of criteria, including actual road condition, strategic importance and assistance to other priorities and service areas, for example.

Yotta has worked closely with North Ayrshire Council for many years, undertaking a comprehensive inventory data collection exercise as far back as 2009. Using advanced vehicle based video surveying equipment and techniques, Yotta created a comprehensive and accurate inventory of core assets. The data contains information on the carriageway, footway, street lighting and street furniture.

This data will be stored, accessed and analysed using the Horizons platform together with additional information about the road network, including other survey data, accident data and the Council’s prioritisation criteria. Horizons will also hold information pertaining to road network complaints, faults and claims, and where the network provides support to other priorities, for example schools, medical centres, public transport services and town centres.

Horizons is a visualised Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) asset management platform designed to make it easier for asset managers to visualise, manage and optimise all their asset management strategies and records in a unique and effective way, using a single cloud-based solution. Since launching to market in 2012, Horizons has revolutionised asset management across a range of applications and is now used by around 50 local authorities in addition to service partners and maintenance contractors. In 2014 Yotta launched Horizons internationally, and has already achieved successful implementations in Europe and beyond.

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