Operational visibility & work management
Make utility work visible
See, manage, and coordinate operational work across office and field teams. 3-GIS shows utilities teams what is planned, assigned, active, delayed, completed, or waiting on action across inspections, repairs, service requests, outage support, follow-up work, and more.
Work management at a glance.
3-GIS operational visibility and work management solutions allow utilities to turn day-to-day work into visible, trackable, location-aware operations. The objective is to replace scattered updates, spreadsheets, emails, calls, paper forms, and disconnected systems with a clearer way to plan, assign, prioritize, monitor, and close out work across office and field teams.
Supporting connected workflows
Coordinate work across teams
Utility work depends on many people, assets, locations, priorities, and handoffs. With 3-GIS, teams can connect work activity to the maps, asset context, crews, service areas, and operational status needed to keep work moving.
Work visibility
See assigned, active, completed, overdue, delayed, and follow-up work so teams have a clearer view of what is happening and what needs attention.
Map-based context
Understand work in relation to assets, locations, service areas, crews, field conditions, and potential operational impact.
Office-field coordination
Enable dispatchers, supervisors, operations teams, support teams, and field crews to work from shared status and operational context.
Prioritization
Manage urgent work, scheduled work, inspections, repairs, maintenance, service requests, and follow-up activity with clearer priority and ownership.
Work history
Maintain useful records of work activity, status changes, assignments, follow-up, and completion to support accountability and reporting.
Operational reporting
Provide dashboards, status views, audit trails, and operational reports that help leaders understand work volume, delays, progress, and outcomes.
Why 3-GIS
Less guesswork. Better follow through.
When work status is scattered across calls, emails, spreadsheets, tickets, paper forms, and disconnected tools, teams lose time trying to understand what is happening. 3-GIS gives utilities a clearer operating picture so work can be managed with more confidence.
Better team alignment
Keep office and field teams working from a shared view of priorities, assignments, crew progress, and follow-up needs.
Faster response
Empower teams to act on urgent issues, shifting priorities, outage-related activity, service requests, and maintenance needs with clearer status and context.
Stronger accountability
Make it easier to see who owns the work, where it is happening, what status it is in, and when action is still needed.
Improved OpEx control
Reduce duplicate effort, missed tasks, manual coordination, delayed follow-up, and avoidable operational friction.
Who this is for
Built for utility operations
Operational work touches many teams across the utility. With 3-GIS, each stakeholder works from a clearer view of assignments, status, location, priority, and follow-through.
Operations stakeholders
Improve stakeholders’ visibility into work volume, delays, priorities, crew progress, follow-up needs, and operational trends that affect reliability, safety, and cost.
Field supervisors
Give supervisors a better understanding of crew assignments, work progress, overdue tasks, asset-related activity, and field updates without chasing manual status reports.
Dispatch teams
Equip teams responsible for assigning, prioritizing, rerouting, and coordinating utility work as new issues, service needs, and operational changes come in.
Field crews
Give field teams clearer assignments, work details, location context, asset information, and follow-up expectations so they can move through work with less confusion.
Connected utility solutions
Powering operational visibility
Explore how 3-GIS connects work management, field activity, GIS context, and specialized utility workflows.
3-GIS | Lifecycle
Operational visibility and work management
3-GIS | Lifecycle enables utilities to manage operational work tied to inspections, maintenance, service requests, repairs, follow-up activity, and field execution. It gives teams better visibility into work status, ownership, location, priority, and progress.
3-GIS | MIMS
Mobile inspections and field execution
3-GIS | MIMS accelerates mobile utility field workflows with GIS access, inspections, photos, notes, asset updates, and field documentation that can help inform operational work and follow-up activity.
3-GIS | Productivity
Utility Network workflow efficiency
3-GIS | Productivity improves Esri Utility Network editing, validation, tracing, versioning, and data quality workflows that support more reliable operational context.
Operational visibility & work management FAQs
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What is operational visibility?
Operational visibility is the ability to see work status, priorities, assignments, location, crew progress, and follow-up needs across day-to-day utility operations. It enables teams to understand what work is planned, active, delayed, completed, overdue, or waiting on action.
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Who needs utility work management software?
Utility work management software is useful for electric and gas utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, operations managers, field supervisors, dispatch teams, maintenance teams, inspection teams, outage response teams, compliance teams, and leaders responsible for reliability, safety, customer response, and operational efficiency.
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What operational visibility problems does 3-GIS solve?
3-GIS reduces the confusion created by scattered spreadsheets, emails, paper forms, phone calls, tickets, status meetings, and disconnected systems. This can improve visibility into work ownership, crew progress, overdue tasks, urgent issues, asset-related work, and follow-up needs.
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Why does location info matter so much in utility work?
Utility work is tied to assets, service areas, crews, field conditions, customers, and operational impact. Map-based visibility allows teams to understand where work is happening, what assets are involved, how priorities relate to location, and how activity may affect the broader network.
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Which 3-GIS product supports operational visibility and work management?
3-GIS | Lifecycle is the primary product for operational visibility and work management. Lifecycle helps utilities see, manage, and coordinate work across planning, assignment, field execution, status tracking, follow-up, and closeout.
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