Trimble Acquires Spacient Technologies

Trimble (CA, USA) has acquired privately-held Spacient Technologies, Inc. (CA, USA) in an all-cash transaction. Spacient is a provider of enterprise field service management and mobile mapping solutions for municipalities and utilities. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Spacient's Fieldport is a GIS centric, Internet-based, wireless software suite focused on utilities field service management. The Fieldport solution, with Spacient's proprietary mobile technology, delivers a device- and platform-independent software service that integrates GIS mapping and GPS location with customer and asset information in a simple and user-friendly format for the mobile workforce. The modular software can be used to extend and integrate information from enterprise asset management, call centre management and GIS mapping systems to the mobile workforce or be implemented as a stand-alone solution for managing, measuring and optimising field service operations.

An on-demand solution, Fieldport is either offered as a hosted subscription service or installed on-site at customer locations. Fieldport is currently used by some of the largest municipalities and utilities in the U.S. and can operate on a wide variety of mobile devices, including the Windows Mobile, Palm, and PocketPC based mobile devices, rugged and non-rugged notebook and tablet computers, Blackberry devices, pagers and digital phones. Spacient solutions enable organisations to achieve significant cost savings for field service Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budgets with a very short customer return-on-investment for both Spacient's software and services.

Spacient Technologies will be reported within Trimble's Field Solutions business segment.