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Brightly On Tour – Gunnedah Shire Council

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Gunnedah Shire Council shares lessons learned in moving from scattered records and legacy systems to more effective and sustainable asset data management. Hear practical advice on how documentation, repeatable processes, and open collaboration can unlock better decisions and ease the burden for teams at all skill levels. 

Highlights: 

  • Migrating historical data from informal sources into structured, accessible formats
  • Making asset management processes easier and more useful through documentation
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Well, I would say having a bit of records background is everyone has a lot of records off to the side or it's, in someone's head. It's getting stuff documented and making sure that we've got everything together. What we actually used to use was a very spatial base antique, but that's what everyone was using. It's very much a a GIS based system as everyone sort of assumes asset management is. Whereas now using Ascetic, those we've actually migrated to, and we're also using Predictor now to try and do a bit more strategic asset management. Of course, we still use Excel spreadsheets for reviewing and analytics and stuff like that. But, yeah, at the moment, we're still maturing in aesthetic. There's a lot of fields in it, so a lot of historical data can come across. So we can try to keep everyone somewhat happy. If you're fresh to it completely, if you're not an accountant or an engineer, if you wanna look at databases, you try and document processes. Even if you can get something that's repeatable or try and pick someone's brain, someone who's been there for a while. Everyone's got their own way of doing stuff, but if you can sort of cherry pick what you need to make your job a bit easier, that'll help.