City of Kingston eyes the future, partners with Brightly

MELBOURNE - 15 August 2024 Brightly, a Siemens company and the global leader in enterprise asset management solutions, announces new partnership with City of Kingston. 

City of Kingston is recognised as one of Victoria’s main employment centres and largest industrial sectors, with a population of approximately 163,724, and more than 70,000 people employed across 15,500 businesses. Almost 30 per cent of the community also work locally and the population is forecast to reach 198,340 people by 2041. 
Given the growth trajectory of the council, Brightly was engaged to support Kingston Council to adopt a strategic asset management approach and deliver asset management plans as part of Victoria’s rigorous compliance requirements. Brightly is the market leader in Australia for delivering compliant asset management plans that are purpose built for the public sector industry. 

Managing risk and maintaining industry standard  

Providing the necessary asset management plans was a crucial task for Kingston Council. With extensive experience collaborating with other Victorian councils, Brightly can offer tailored strategies for the industry, ensuring outcomes that meet ISO standards and Local Government requirements and reporting outcomes.

A significant aspect of this work involves mitigating risks to achieve the best results for assets and the community. As a leading business in strategic asset management, Brightly will partner with Kingston Council to manage risks in the short, medium, and long term, optimising the council’s budget effectively.

Optimising capital investment

In order to unlock capital for Kingston Council to support its growing community, its planning framework needed to be addressed. Brightly’s Predictor Platform solution seamlessly integrates with existing asset management systems and can forecast the lifecycle of an asset to minimise downturn and empower councils to deploy capital optimally. Essentially allowing councils to work smarter not harder when planning maintenance or new projects. 

Global leader in intelligent asset management solutions

Brightly has deep asset management expertise locally with the global backing of Siemens. As a leading business delivering intelligent asset management solutions across the globe, Brightly has a demonstrated track record of delivering solutions that align with councils objectives. 

Brightly’s Senior Sales Executive for Local Government ANZ, Jim Apostolovski said, “We are delighted to collaborate with City of Kingston in implementing our proven Predictor solution as they plan for the future. With a proven track record of working with a substantial number of Councils across Australia, we have a deep understanding of the processes involved. As experts and industry leaders, we offer reliable expertise in this domain. We recognise the challenges councils face across all aspects of their asset portfolios, which is why we are dedicated to helping them find solutions and enhance efficiencies.”

Brightly’s General Manager, APAC, Blake Gordon said, “We’re excited to bring our Strategic Asset Management software and expertise to bear at Kingston. Predictor allows our clients like Kingston to merge the real and digital worlds, simulating the performance of their asset portfolio’s into the future. This enables data-driven decision making with respect to capital planning, and drives optimised investment planning in an inflationary and capital constrained environment.”

About Brightly Software

Brightly Software, a Siemens company, enables organisations to successfully plan, maintain, and sustain the entire lifecycle of their assets, facilities and infrastructure. As the global leader in intelligent asset management solutions for more than 25 years, Brightly’s sophisticated cloud-based platform is expertly designed to improve capital planning through smarter, data-driven decision making, empower technicians to predict, prioritise and manage preventative maintenance activities, and support organisations to achieve sustainability, compliance and efficiency goals. Combined with award-winning training, legendary support and managed services, more than 12,000 clients worldwide depend on Brightly to optimise their teams, operations and strategic planning initiatives. For more information, visit brightlysoftware.com.