3545  Pitney Bowes Business Insight has announced that 1146  Balfour Beatty 
WorkPlace has chosen Confirm OnDemand – PBBI’s on-demand-based 
infrastructure asset maintenance and management system – to support its 
US$158 million Highways Services Partnership with Southampton City 
Council in the UK.
3548  Southampton City Council had previously been 
using Confirm as an on-premise application to manage its highways 
maintenance programme. Through integration with PBBI’s MapInfo 
Professional location intelligence GIS software, the Council was able to
 pinpoint defects in the road network and associated assets and expedite
 the necessary repairs. On taking up the highways contract, Balfour 
Beatty WorkPlace identified that moving to Confirm OnDemand provided an 
ideal solution by significantly reducing hardware, implementation and 
management costs.  This is because Southampton’s Confirm OnDemand system
 is run as part of a multi-tenanted infrastructure where hardware and 
management costs are effectively shared between organisations.
Confirm
 is a modular software solution for the maintenance and management of 
public infrastructure assets and services including highways, lights, 
structures, street works, property maintenance, grounds, trees, 
cleansing and waste.