Never miss an update with real-time notifications.
Notifications (in email and Optioneer)
The new notifications feature in Optioneer ensures you're always in the loop on critical project events with instant email and in-app alerts. Whether you’re tagging team members with @ or being tagged yourself, you’ll receive timely notifications that keep you informed and ready to act.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Never miss an update: Stay informed of every project development, ensuring you can respond promptly and maintain momentum in your projects.
Escalate key project risks: Instantly draw attention to important project risks, enabling swift action and escalation when needed to keep projects on track.
Improve collaboration: Facilitate better communication and break down data silos across different teams, ensuring all stakeholders stay informed on important project developments.
Streamline communication: Keep project discussions within one platform, reducing the need to switch tools so you can stay focused.
Effortlessly access and share pre-saved map views cross teams.
Saved map views links
The saved views linking feature in Optioneer empowers users to easily access and share specific project map views with team members or external stakeholders. By simply copying and sharing the URL link, you ensure that recipients see exactly what you see, enhancing clarity and collaboration.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Seamless collaboration: Simplifies the process of sharing project views with multiple team members, ensuring all stakeholders are aligned and see the same information.
Evidence decision-making: Share project iterations, providing a clear audit trail that shows how your project evolved over time.
Visual storytelling: Facilitate informed discussions by presenting saved map views and exports to effectively communicate your project’s development and justify decisions.
Simplify and accelerate data integration into your projects.
Data integration wizard
This data integration wizard simplifies and speeds up the process of adding datasets. It provides users with a step-by-step process, allowing them to easily add and iterate on vector data within Optioneer. With fewer steps, non-expert users can easily manage their datasets, unlocking greater value from the platform and allowing for more efficient project analysis and iteration.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Accelerates project setup: Allows users to independently add datasets without delay.
Operational efficiency: Optimises essential workflows, enabling users to manipulate and update datasets, enhancing overall user productivity.
Refine your project logistics with detailed access track assessments.
Enhanced access track evaluation
The enhanced access track evaluation feature allows users to report crossings and no-go zones, evaluate elevation and slope, and configure baseline costs per meter or foot, providing more detailed and accurate reporting for access track assets. With these enhancements, you can now determine the feasibility of access track options with greater precision, ensuring that your project stays financially and operationally on track.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Comprehensive feasibility assessments: Evaluate route options in greater detail, factoring in elevation, slope, and no-go zones to ensure access track feasibility.
Accurate cost estimation: Configure and calculate baseline costs per meter or foot for access tracks, enhancing the financial accuracy of your project plans.
Reduced risk of unforeseen issues: By integrating more detailed assessments, this feature helps prevent costly and time-consuming issues from arising later in the project lifecycle.
Improve asset planning with automated set back distance calculations for underground cables.
Set back distance calculations
This feature ensures that route options are realistic and adhere to critical safety and design standards by incorporating setback distances into the design rules. This enhancement delivers more accurate asset placement and cost estimations, enabling users to make better-informed decisions in the planning stages of underground infrastructure projects.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Realistic asset placement: Produces route options with asset placements that consider practical, real-world constraints, improving the feasibility of project plans and reducing risk.
Accurate cost estimation: By accounting for set back distances, the feature enhances the precision of cost calculations, ensuring that budgets are based on realistic scenarios.
Advanced design capabilities: Leverages the power of Optioneer’s routing engine to incorporate detailed design parameters, setting a new standard for underground cable routing.
Turn complex geospatial data into clear, actionable insights.
Dynamic constraint visualisation
Optioneer’s dynamic constraint visualisation feature allows users to automatically colour-code geospatial layers on the map according to pre-set design rules. This powerful tool instantly visualises no-go zones, indicates where specific installation methods are required, and highlights areas with the highest or lowest impact scores for particular installation choices. With just a few clicks, users can turn extensive sets of geodata into high-level or more granular constraint maps, ensuring informed decision-making and clearer, more visual communication with stakeholders.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Instant clarity: Automatically colour-code geospatial layers to quickly visualise constraints, reducing manual configuration and transforming complex data into clear narratives.
Clear stakeholder communication: Save and share customised visualisations, ensuring all stakeholders are clearly informed and aligned on critical project details.
Data-driven decision-making: Quickly identify and analyse high and low-impact areas on the map, mitigating possible risks earlier and helping users identify best-fit route and site options.
Integrate environmental considerations from project conception.
Biodiversity baseline calculations
The biodiversity baseline calculations feature in Optioneer now integrates biodiversity calculations directly into your project workflow, making it easier than ever to assess environmental impacts early in the planning process. By incorporating a new baseline configuration, this feature allows users to calculate how close a route gets to environmentally sensitive areas, providing key biodiversity metrics alongside other project data. These metrics are available as primary outputs that can be exported and used within the results library, just like any other project metric.
💡 Why is this a game-changer?
Early impact assessment support: Allows for the evaluation of biodiversity impacts early in the project, reducing long-term compensation costs and potential penalties.
Integrated metrics: Biodiversity baseline metrics are now seamlessly integrated into your project’s analysis, providing actionable insights without additional setup.
Compliance readiness: Prepares your project for future legal requirements, such as the mandatory biodiversity impact compensation in England and Wales starting in November 2023.
Enhanced route selection: Helps in selecting routes that minimise biodiversity impact, providing robust evidence for planning applications and environmental impact assessments.
