Khatib & Alami Wins Enterprise GIS Project for Bahrain Ministry

ESRI (CA, USA) has announced that Khatib & Alami, its distributor in Lebanon and Oman and a utility solutions provider, was awarded an enterprise GIS project for the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The project started on 19 September 2005, and the implementation is expected to last more than two years.

Khatib & Alami will be working closely with the Bahraini MEW on the enterprise GIS project, targeting the establishment of a more advanced, complete information system that should facilitate the daily work in the ministry.

To continue to maintain a prompt customer support system for its clients, the ministry realised it needed to build a new GIS infrastructure along with several new applications. The applications will be interfaced with the existing Oracle-based business applications, and the new infrastructure will be built using ESRI’s GIS platform and Miner & Miner’s ArcFM. This implementation will facilitate the timely and accurate capture, documentation, and distribution of network asset information to the entire MEW workforce.