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1986 – George Butler Associates, Inc., an Engineering News Record Top 300 professional consulting engineering firm, began providing water resources infrastructure management software to local government agencies in the central US. 1987 - It quickly became apparent that the existing software platform required greater speed and storage capacity since all data was stored in RAM. The software underwent a redesign to function as a database package. Later that same year, software for citywide pavement management was developed. The same engineering practice standards used for the water resources software programs were used to design the Street Maintenance Programs. 1988 - The software underwent another conversion, this time to Smartware II. Additional software functionality included work order concepts and customer complaints to the sanitary sewer and street programs. 1991 – GBA’s senior management made a milestone decision to develop a complete suite of infrastructure management software products specifically designed to meet the needs of public works agencies. GBA Master Series became the name of the software suite. The first programs suite included GBA Sewer Master, GBA Street Master, GBA Water Master and GBA Storm Master. 1992 - Informix announced the purchase of Smartware and would no longer support the Smartware system. All programs were converted to the new database format, FoxPro for DOS. 1995 - Microsoft purchased FoxPro. gbaMS recognizes the need for a software product to interface with Oracle and other ANSI Standard Relational Database Systems (RDBMS) became a priority. GBA decides to convert all programs to Microsoft C++. With the release of Version 6, the programs migrate to a standard look and feel. 1995-1999 – During this time, the GBA Master Series software suite was continually improved and expanded. 2000 – GBA Master Series, Inc. (gbaMS) is officially established as an independent company dedicated to the design, development and support of the GBA Master Series software suite. Don Pinkston, P.E. is named President and CEO; Jim Graham, P.E. is named Vice-President. gbaMS also launches its Masters in Business Alliance Program (MBA), designed for civil engineering consultants who recommend Infrastructure Management Software (IMS) solutions to public works professionals, utility directors and city managers. gbaMS recognized that alliances better serves America’s infrastructure system while increasing potential revenue opportunities for each firm through the successful implementation of software solutions for public works organizations. In the fall of 2000, gbaMS held its first annual User Development Conference. 2001 – gbaMS continues to release updated program versions. 2002 - gbaMS is named ESRI’s “Partner of the Year”. 2003 -. gbaMS releases Version 6.61 and Version 6.62 which included software updates with supported RDBMS (Microsoft SQL Server and Access; Oracle), video and image displays (Apple QuickTime), and report writer (Crystal Reports). In addition, several new products are introduced including: GBA Mobile Manager, GBA Accident Master, GBA Bridge Master, GBA Street Light Master, GBA Right-of-Way Master, GBA Signal Master, GBA Tree Master, GBA Parks Master and GBA Facility Master. 2004 – gbaMS completes version 6.70, its most significant release to date. This release included expanded GBA GIS Master® products, including GBA GIS Viewer™. New offerings included an ESRI MapObjects LT-based GIS utility application; and a .NET technology based, ESRI ArcIMS deployed GIS application that provides for user access via Intranet/Internet. In addition to streamlining its maintenance management applications for increased efficiency, Version 6.70 included a new integrated Work Planning & Budgeting application that allows for complete work cost accounting. gbaMS also develops an interface with third-party financial systems. |
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6.73 - Rel. 10/19/06