SEPM Services

Engineering, Migration and Advice for Utility GIS.

SEPM's services are built on its own product suite and decades of Smallworld experience. Four service areas cover the full lifecycle of a GIS data challenge — from understanding the requirement to your own team running the solution in production.

Service areas

Four Ways We Work With You.

01 · Build

Software Development, Customization & Module Integration

When a standard product reaches its limits, SEPM extends it. We develop customer-specific Smallworld Magik modules, extend X-Translator scripts, build APIs and create dedicated user interfaces — so the software fits your data model, not the other way round.

Customer-specific Magik modules
Schema mapping for INTERLIS, ISYBAU and SIA 405
APIs and system integrations
Dedicated user interfaces such as SEPM Simple GUI

Smallworld Magik
XML mapping
APIs
SEPM Simple GUI

Explore Software Development

Laptop showing an overloaded GIS application with warning dialogs such as “Required field missing”, surrounded by sticky notes reading custom field, manual step, import, export and repeat. — The standard software doesn't fit your workflow.
Missing fields. Manual steps. Endless repeats.
SEPM tailors the software to the way you work.
One focused panel. The right fields. One click.
Your workflow is unique. Your software can be too.

A GIS professional holds his head in frustration in front of the overloaded GIS application. — The standard software doesn't fit your workflow.
Missing fields. Manual steps. Endless repeats.
SEPM tailors the software to the way you work.
One focused panel. The right fields. One click.
Your workflow is unique. Your software can be too.

02 · Migrate

GIS Data Migration, Conversion & Automated Import/Export

SEPM moves spatial and tabular data between systems, formats and databases — once, for a full platform migration, or continuously, through automated import and export jobs that run without user intervention.

Full-scale GIS platform migrations
Scheduled, headless import and export jobs
Coordinate transformations — LV03 to LV95, WGS84, UTM
CAD, GIS, web and industry formats

SEPM X-Translator
SEPM X-Raster
Headless
LV95

Explore GIS Data Migration

An old computer labelled “OLD GIS” surrounded by towering boxes of DWG, CSV, database and GIS data, next to a new monitor labelled “NEW GIS” showing an empty map with “0 features”. — Decades of network data, stuck in the old system.
Moving it by hand takes months, and something always gets lost.
SEPM maps, converts and transfers it, automatically.
Every feature and attribute arrives intact, coordinates converted too.
Move your GIS data. Without rebuilding everything.

A GIS professional staggers between the two computers carrying a toppling stack of boxes, papers flying, while the new system shows only “3 features”. — Decades of network data, stuck in the old system.
Moving it by hand takes months, and something always gets lost.
SEPM maps, converts and transfers it, automatically.
Every feature and attribute arrives intact, coordinates converted too.
Move your GIS data. Without rebuilding everything.

03 · Advise

Technical Consulting, Solution Architecture & Requirements Engineering

SEPM works with utilities and implementation partners to analyse third-party data, resolve format compatibility issues, design data workflows and translate regulatory requirements and industry standards into practical technical specifications.

Requirements engineering and specification
Solution architecture and data-flow design
Format feasibility and compatibility assessments
Data quality rules and governance

SIA 405
INTERLIS
ISYBAU
BIM/IFC

Explore Technical Consulting

A meeting-room whiteboard with GIS, database, CAD, XML, Excel and portal boxes tangled by crossing arrows, sticky notes asking “Which version?”, “Who fixes it?” and “LV03? LV95?”, a sheet asking “Where does this data go?”, and a table buried in drawings and a “New mandate” folder. — A new mandate, many systems, and nobody knows where the data goes.
Every answer raises three new questions.
SEPM turns the questions into one clear architecture.
Clear data flow. Clear rules. Every open question answered.
Different systems. One workable solution.

A GIS professional clutches his head at the conference table, buried in specifications and drawings in front of the tangled whiteboard. — A new mandate, many systems, and nobody knows where the data goes.
Every answer raises three new questions.
SEPM turns the questions into one clear architecture.
Clear data flow. Clear rules. Every open question answered.
Different systems. One workable solution.

04 · Train

Workshops, Training & Skill Transfer

SEPM trains the people who work with the data every day. In hands-on workshops on your own data, your team learns to operate SEPM X-Translator and the standard interfaces, configure mappings and check the results, so it can run and adapt its workflows without waiting for outside help.

Hands-on workshops with your own data
X-Translator and interface training
Mapping and workflow configuration
Documentation and skill handover

Hands-on
Your own data
On-site · Remote
X-Translator

Explore Workshops & Training

Three GIS colleagues crowd around one workstation with an import stuck at 0%, surrounded by DWG and DXF drawings, a PostGIS binder and a sheet asking “How do we do this?”. — A new workflow, and nobody is quite sure how it works.
Manuals, guesswork and trial and error.
SEPM trains your team, on your own data and workflows.
Hands-on, at your own workstation, step by step.
From “How do we do this?” to “We can do it ourselves.”

Hours later the import has failed: one colleague holds his head, another is on the phone and the third is buried in manuals full of sticky notes. — A new workflow, and nobody is quite sure how it works.
Manuals, guesswork and trial and error.
SEPM trains your team, on your own data and workflows.
Hands-on, at your own workstation, step by step.
From “How do we do this?” to “We can do it ourselves.”

How they connect

One Partner Across the Whole Lifecycle.

Most projects touch more than one service area. The same team carries its knowledge from specification to production.

01
Analyse & specify
Assess feasibility, analyse incoming data and define formal requirements.
Technical Consulting →
02
Build & extend
Develop the modules, mappings and interfaces the requirements call for.
Software Development →
03
Migrate & automate
Move the data and automate recurring exchanges in production.
GIS Data Migration →
04
Enable & evolve
Train your team to run the solution and adapt it as standards, systems and data change.
Workshops & Training →

Why SEPM

Technology and Know-How From One Source.

Smallworld and Magik depth

Years of engineering inside Smallworld GIS — from customer modules to NIS data models.

Expertise in industry standards

INTERLIS, SIA 405, ISYBAU, IFC and federal geodata models — including helping to write them.

Our own product suite

SEPM X-Translator, X-Raster and database connectors give every project a proven engine.

Utility domain knowledge

Electricity, gas, water and wastewater networks — and the regulations that govern them.

We work directly with utilities and collaborate with implementation partners, including ESN, ITS, Mettenmeier and NIS AG.

Formats & standards

The Formats We Work With Every Day.

INTERLIS 1
INTERLIS 2.3
SIA 405
ISYBAU
MGDM
BIM / IFC
DWG / DXF
Shapefile
GeoJSON
File Geodatabase
PostGIS
Oracle Spatial
KML / KMZ
SVG
NEPLAN
TIFF / ECW
LV03 / LV95
WGS84 / UTM

Have a GIS Challenge That Doesn't Fit the Standard Box?

Tell us about your environment, your data and the challenge you're trying to solve. We'll explore how SEPM can help.

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