piLINE
With more than 20 years of computer software development experience and 5 years of GIS application development experience Dr. Péter Scsaurszki and Pál Rudas founded the company in 1994.
Starting with HUF 10 Million piLINE tripled its turnover every year and became the most dynamically growing GIS company of Hungary. The activity of the company is changing from domestic to export. Their products and services have a continuously growing interest in the East European region and in the United States.
PiLINE is specialising in GIS core software development, GIS application development, data conversion and maintenance of complete GIS solutions for its customers.
Developments include CAD/GIS extensions of existing software and end user applications for large scale WAN and LAN architectures.
Full range of data collection, data preparation, data conversion, and data maintenance service is provided for all the customers requiring complete solutions and also for others who need professional, precise data conversion in the GIS and engineering field.
PiLINE is focusing mainly on the Oil and Gas Industry. Their main product, NYIR (Pipeline Information System) is a complete GIS solution based on Bentley's MicroStation to keep track of all high pressure pipeline-related information, including static and dynamic data.
The first customer was MOL Rt. KTA KFÜ, the Oil and Gas Transportation Branch of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company. The system was implemented on 8 LANs connected through a nation-wide WAN handling information of 6000 km of high-pressure pipeline of Hungary.
The system is now under implementation in Ukraine for the 30 000 km of high-pressure oil and gas pipelines.
From 1994 onwards the system was shown in three consecutive years at the GIS Conference for the Pipeline Industry held in Houston, at the GASTECH >95 Exhibition in Kiev, in Prague, Vienna and Amsterdam at GIS shows.
PiLINE works in close co-operation with foreign companies dealing with GIS in the same area. Among them M.J. Harden Associates, USA is specialised to pipeline information management systems. The two companies are working together in the GRI/ISAT standardisation project, which co-ordinates the standardisation efforts in the O&G industry.
PiLINE B as an experienced software developer B is a strategic partner of Bentley Systems Inc. and develops core applications for the Bentley's GIS product line.
Contact information:
Mail address: 1034 Budapest, Bécsi út 126-128.
Telephone: (361)-368-2003
Fax: (361)-168-9039
Contact persons:
Pál Rudas CEO
László Nagy GIS executive
Pál Rudas marketing executive
E-mail: support@piline.hu
WWW: http://www.piline.hu
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