Location intelligence and the geographic aspects of data are hot topics in the enterprise today. More and more business decision makers understand the value of seeing data in the context of location, and how that translates to insights that are often hidden from text based views. This is great news for the GIS community; however many online solutions are either replications of complex GIS systems or loosely integrated Mashups. GIS Managers have a golden opportunity to get the efforts of their teams into the mainstream of organizational workflow; what the organization wants is an application that:
As “Enterprise 2.0” becomes more pervasive, new ways of delivering and interacting with GIS content are expected. Many in the GIS community are feeling the pinch of these growing demands. GIS tools and professionals are essential for the authorship and analysis of geographic content, and now there is a solution that showcases that effort to the rest of the organization in a way that tracks with non-specialist end users.
- gives access to their significant GIS investments in a browser-based, actionable, visual environment,
- provides a rewarding user experience commensurate with the richness of location data,
- combines GIS data with enterprise and cloud-based content in the same view,
- and encourages collaboration and contribution throughout.
As “Enterprise 2.0” becomes more pervasive, new ways of delivering and interacting with GIS content are expected. Many in the GIS community are feeling the pinch of these growing demands. GIS tools and professionals are essential for the authorship and analysis of geographic content, and now there is a solution that showcases that effort to the rest of the organization in a way that tracks with non-specialist end users.
