The Wisconsin DNR Urban Nonpoint Source & Storm Water Management (UNPS) Planning Grant Program applications are due April 17, 2023. Here are a few suggestions on how to prepare for these projects in your GIS!

Municipalities are showing more interest in publicly sharing their GIS data, and with good reason! Learn how AssetAlly and ArcGIS Online are helping communities share important public resources and tell compelling project stories using Story Maps, public mapping applications, and Hubs.

With the new year comes a new construction season! As your community continues to grow and new developments are built, your municipality’s GIS will need to be updated in order to reflect new assets and utilities. Why pay for those updates if you don’t have to?

Why does it always feel like the end of construction season arrives when there’s still too much to do and not enough time to get everything done? While we can’t days to your calendar, our GIS Maintenance Cheat Sheet can help you stay organized and avoid administrative headaches as you navigate this busy time of year.

As we wrap up all things 2020, the AssetAlly team is hard at work developing new ways to bring you valuable GIS content in 2021. While we plan for what’s next, we like to look back at the content you liked most over the last year. So without further ado, here are the top 5 AssetAlly articles of 2020.

AssetAlly helps communities better assess and manage their municipal sanitary collection system by seamlessly integrating critical data into their GIS. Watch our latest video overview to make sure you’re getting the most out of your sanitary suite.

November 18th is GIS Day. To celebrate our favorite day of the year, we’re discussing how capturing your 2020 maintenance efforts in your GIS can help your municipality start the new year with clear priorities and strong data.

Learn how the Village of Hartland cut costs by using AssetAlly to more efficiently manage their sanitary sewer main televising and cleaning program.

Learn how Saved Queries in AssetAlly can help you save time and improve your processes by making your inspection, repairs, maintenance, and reporting data more easily accessible.

AssetAlly now includes new Operations Dashboards that give you an instant graphic overview of important community data like your team’s current workload, annual routine maintenance progress, and other essential infrastructure statistics. Learn how this new feature will help you spend less time crunching numbers and more time improving your community.

AssetAlly Work Orders recently underwent a significant makeover. This update included a more intuitive dashboard, better process for assigning tasks, and a more seamless Work Order closing process. Learn how the Village of Howard has taken full advantage of these improvements to stay on top of their municipal customer requests and more effectively manage their team.

These individuals keep things running smoothly behind the scenes at AssetAlly. Without them, our team would be lost! We’d like for you to get to know them a little bit better, so without further ado, meet the AssetAlly Development Team!

It can be labor-intensive to stay on top of ever-changing zoning maps. To help your community save time, energy, and money, the Zoning Tool in AssetAlly allows you to edit your zoning maps with just a few clicks.

Asset Ally provides several tools to edit your data in bulk, saving you time and energy in the field and in the office. Learn how the Multi Edit tool allows you to quickly update your hydrants, valves, street poles, manholes, pipes, trees, and more.

The latest AssetAlly release featured several updates to the way users create, communicate, and complete work orders. To help you and your team learn about these improvements, and all of the great features included in the Work Orders took, we created an easy-to-follow video tutorial.

Water valves are an essential part of your community’s water distribution system. Valve maintenance demands acute attention to specific safety measures in order to be successful, which is why we’ve created this cheat sheet to guide you before, during, and after a water valve exercising.

One of the main benefits of AssetAlly is more efficient document management. Learn how the Village of Sister Bay, WI uses the Document Management Tool to save time while tracking their well permit and impact fee documents.

When it comes to selecting a GIS provider, municipalities must often choose between a tailor made solution that’s easy to navigate but offers limited capabilities, and a generic solution that may have endless, robust capabilities but is impossible for a non-GIS expert to maneuver. Learn why our partnership with ESRI gives your community the best of both worlds.

Completing your erosion and sediment control inspections and reporting your findings to the DNR is easier than ever thanks to the new and improved Erosion Control Inspection Tool in AssetAlly.

Learn how the Map Gallery function in AssetAlly can help you and your team avoid unnecessary interruptions.and increase efficiency by giving you access to your address, utility, zoning, road maps, and more in one convenient, filing cabinet-free, digital location.

Whether you’re a new client, a new municipal employee, or long-time power user, it’s important to know what makes AssetAlly so different from other GIS providers in order to effectively maximize its benefits across all users and departments. There are so many reasons why AssetAlly stands out as the best GIS solution for municipalities, but for the sake of time, we’ll highlight our three favorite examples here.

Hydrant inspections don’t have to take up your team’s valuable time and limited budget. Here are 5 ways AssetAlly can help your community complete your hydrant inspections 100% headache-free.

Recording Hydrant Inspections in AssetAlly is an efficient way to track and manage your municipal hydrant data. Learn how to navigate this user-friendly tool with this basic, step-by-step guide

With just a few clicks in your map viewer, you can export data for use in reports, presentations, and other familiar software like Excel, PowerPoint, and ArcGIS. This data allows you to take the power of AssetAlly into your organization. Learn how to make the most of your AssetAlly data in this easy to follow tutorial.

Whether you’re choosing a provider for the first time or considering a solution that better fits your needs, searching for a new geographic information system (GIS) can be overwhelming. Before you consider your next GIS, ask yourself these 6 questions.

Spring has sprung! Well, maybe not quite yet... but it’s getting closer! Winter can be a chaotic time of year for municipalities dealing with snow removal, frozen pipes, property damage from snowplows, and more. Learn how AssetAlly can help your municipality prepare for spring and get the most out of your GIS by completing sign inventories and performing inspections when cleaning infrastructure.

Welcome to our new and improved AssetAlly newsletter! Formerly distributed through our website directly, we hope you’ll look forward to receiving helpful monthly user tips, updates on new features, frequently asked questions, and other valuable info related to your GIS directly to your inbox each month. To start, here’s a few of the events we’re most looking forward to in 2020!