M4 Solutions software will help Kansas City Power & Light manage operations and infrastructure visually.
February 20, 2013 – RICHMOND, VA – Mapcom Systems, a leading provider of visual operations management software, announced today Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L), an investor-owned electric utility based in Kansas City, Missouri, has selected M4 Solutions as the operations solution to help manage its inside and outside networks for facilities located in Kansas and Missouri.
The M4 Solutions software includes comprehensive design and mapping tools, integrated work order, fiber and central office management and various support applications, such as workforce management, services management and CPR integration. The M4 software is designed to map the entire telecom plant facility from the central office to the customer structure. The software then ties each map item back to an individual database record, which is then integrated with the telephone company’s existing customer, assignment and billing records.
“KCP&L needed a system that could database both outside plant facilities and equipment records,” said Joe Mellott, manager at KCP&L. “The M4 Solution provides us the ability to track out fiber cables, splices and the fiber optic equipment. In addition, we can now create circuit layout records for all of our voice and data circuits,” added Mellott.
About KCP&L
Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, Great Plains Energy Incorporated (NYSE: GXP) is the holding company of Kansas City Power & Light Company and KCP&L Great Missouri Operations Company, two of the leading regulated providers of electricity in the Midwest. Kansas City Power & Light and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations use KCP&L as a brand name. More information about the companies is available on the Internet at: www.greatplainsenergy.com or www.kcpl.com.
About Mapcom Systems
Mapcom Systems is the developer of M4 Solutions – a visual operations platform that allows service providers to manage their workforce, as well as fiber, coax, wireless and copper networks, including both outside and inside plant at the physical and logical levels. M4 Solutions enables users to integrate and correlate data from existing billing, accounting, GPS tracking, element management and network monitoring applications in a powerful visual interface to all network elements. Since 1971, Mapcom has worked with independents, cooperatives, fiber communities, and campus telecommunications providers of all sizes across the United States, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. For more information, visit the Mapcom website at www.mapcom.com.
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