Decades of Expertise in Smart Reference Data (SRD)
Karine Nguyen
Luxembourg, September 24th, 2025. My involvement with Intergraph Smart Reference Data (SRD) spans more than two decades and includes dealing with all aspects of the solution as an administrator, user, consultant and trainer. The experience of working with the same system for such a long period of time has given me a unique perspective and understanding of its role in project delivery and data management.
Karine (Boyer) Nguyen, Department Manager at TecSurge, is based in Luxembourg. Karine has a total of 24 years’ international experience with specification and catalogue management and related technologies. Her focus is on engineering material management, and her diversity of experience includes consulting, implementation, analysis, work processes and team management.
During the early years, a key challenge lay in designing and configuring commodity coding structures based on project or client requirements and then building catalogue data and material descriptions based upon the defined coding system.
Recognizing this pervasive challenge and its impact on time-to-value for implementing the solution led our founder and what became the material management team at TecSurge to design and develop the Standard Database (SDB). This innovation provided a reusable and extensible starting point for all customers, dramatically shortening the time, cost and effort required for implementation.
Joining TecSurge soon after the introduction of the SDB, I have since worked with many companies to build on top of this now-standard baseline, and along with my team, successfully delivered countless projects. Our expertise spans a comprehensive range of capabilities including analysis, specification and catalogue data preparation, CAD system interfacing, report development and 3rd party system integration.
Continuing our proud history of adding value for our clients, my team at TecSurge has pioneered and delivered two additional innovations:
- Catalogue as a Service: a powerful combination of application hosting and management, user support and administration, and data management services
- Custom Application Portal: leveraging the Oracle APEX platform to provide intuitive access to specification and catalogue information to a wide range of non-user stakeholders
These innovative capabilities enhance the usability and availability of the solution, improving the return on investment for our clients. They also support two key industry trends, namely for owner/operators to standardize and maintain control over their own specification and catalogue data, and the increasing utilization of data-driven engineering solutions.
At TecSurge, we remain committed to helping our clients leverage their investments in engineering technologies, ensuring they deliver value over the long term.
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