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Christine R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/16/2023

"Exploring ge smallworld"

5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

The thing I like most about ge smallworld is the Network analysis and conflicts management. They also help people with difficulties they have with technology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

The thing I dislike about ge smallworld are the mapping capabilities and some spatial queries from a user perspective are quite limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luciano A.

Professor EBTT

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/30/2021

"Education with smallworld"

5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

Network analysis and conflicts management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

I think the difficulty for establishment of integration on another data sources Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Venkatesulu G.

Microstation draftsman at RTA (Roads and Transport Authority), Dubai

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/2/2021

"More user friendly software"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

Tools customized is very good. I like this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

Server based processing is poor. This is disappointing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/2/2020

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"GE Smallworld for Physical Network Inventory"

4/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

The ability to capture detailed network inventory and connectivity between network elements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

The mapping capabilities and some spatial queries from a user perspective are quite limited. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mahesh P.

GIS Associate

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/9/2016

"Review for GE Smallworld"

4.5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

I like Small world, Because it enables to realize process efficiencies in many areas of the plan, design, build, operate and maintain life-cycle for your network assets.it is support for structures and all dimensions of a network.I like the stability and speed compared to other platforms like ArcGis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

Smallworld is harder to learn when compare to other platforms, it is cost expensive to support, and having more tools, its difficulty to find for customization. It could be improved is the ease with which it can be integrated to different tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GE Smallworld:

Smallworld can provide a number of data models and functionality sets that may meet your needs without customization.it might be the best on the market. They do need to improve the graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GE Smallworld solving and how is that benefiting you?

I involved in a Electrical project to use Smallworld, Its a good experience with this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark K.

Lead Engineer

Utilities

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/10/2015

"Transmission Asset Managers review"

2.5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

It is a GIS system that is windows based. The support seems to be pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

I dislike the non proportional icons. It looks like a childs coloring book. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GE Smallworld:

Evaluate the competition. GE might be the best on the market. They do need to improve the graphics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GE Smallworld solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using Smallworld as a design tool for distribution and gas relocations. In ddition Smallworld is tied to our asset repository. The benefit is, it is a graphical tool that also has an asset management component. The tool s not a standalone design software package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/27/2015

"GIS Manager/Super User"

5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

Smallworld can handle large amounts of data much better than what I have seem competing software do. It provides a stable working environment where users can easily edit data. From a large utility perspective, I'm not sure if there is another product that can match this in terms of stability and ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

This tool has a proprietary database that does make it difficult to share data with other software. White space management is also an issue. Most tools around now offer robust white space management tools in terms of dynamic annotation or labeling while Smallworld does not. I'm certain something can be customized to do this but I feel this should be an item that comes out of the box ready to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GE Smallworld:

I would recommend contacting other companies utilizing Smallworld to see what other complimentary software they use. While it can do almost anything quite often it's not cost effective to have it do so. Most companies that I am aware of have some type of other additional software to effectively solve their business problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GE Smallworld solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using this product to manage our asset location has been extremely helpful. In combination with our asset management software we're able to track down the location of our assets and build viable inspection programs around them. It also often serves as the building blocks for some of our major business cases; we're able to capture the right data, build a plan, and derive the ultimate value that will result. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Utilities

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/26/2015

"GIS Smallworld is an effective GIS Asset Management Repository Database used at my company."

3.5/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

We have been using this tool as a design and asset repository database for our Distribution system for many years. I work in the Transmission Engineering and now Asset Management department in which GIS SmallWorld has not been actively used as a design tool or asset repository and I find it embarrassing that we have such detailed information on all of our Distribution assets including when each individual structure was installed and last replaced but cannot come near to as accurate of information for the Transmission system which is only a fraction of its size compared to the Distribution. We have spent the last 5 years trying to update this asset data on the Transmission side and are still struggling to report information as accurately as we can on the Distribution side of the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

Even after we completed our latest upgrade to GIS Smallworld i think that the program lacks sufficient design capabilities to be used as a full design tool for Sub-T and Transmission projects. For most Distribution projects it suffices since it is more of a planning tool and capable of ordering material and documenting the work for the asset repository purposes however I don't think it provides sufficient capabilities to be a design tool for the higher voltages which require plan & profile drawings as well as other more detailed design information which is a large influece why it was never used on this side of the business because it required duplication and additional design work to properly record in GIS Smallworld. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GE Smallworld:

As previously stated i think this is a great asset repository database but not capable of being a detailed design tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GE Smallworld solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a company we have realized the benefit this offers as an asset repository database and even though it requires additional effort to properly record project details into the system the benefits of accurately recording this data outweighs the extra cost and effort to document it within this system and others. The hope is that this system can be updated to the point that we can start to eliminate some of the other places where asset data is recorded but don't ever expect this to become the primary design tool for Transmission. Being able to accurately report asset details to regulatory agencies is essential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Graham G.

Senior Consultant

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/21/2015

"GE Smallworld - GIS ripe for customization"

4/5

What do you like best about GE Smallworld?

Ease of customization - you can add/modify functionality while the GIS is running, no restarting required in most situations. Slight modifications or completely new functionality can be coded and debugged quickly.

Module Code organization - all code is organized into modules that can be individually added to any GIS session.

Object Oriented code - everything is an object that can be passed as a function argument, even other functions.

DB restructure testing - using a long-transaction alternative you can test new DB table definitions against the entire DB without disturbing other users/developers.

You rarely have to fight code dependencies so developers spend their time developing logic not fighting incompatible libraries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GE Smallworld?

Setting up a new environment can be tricky, especially if a server farm is used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GE Smallworld:

Since the core GE Smallworld software can literally do anything your key question is what do you want? GE Smallworld can provide a number of datamodels and functionality sets that may meet your needs without customization - review them before deciding to develop a completely custom implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GE Smallworld solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have written code to do GIS data conflation, custom data extractions, support business processes and enable complex report generation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.