Enterprise GIS Improves Efficiency

Since becoming the first customer to take advantage of Esri's Small Government Enterprise License Agreement (ELA) programme in 2008, Wayne County (US) Pennsylvania's GIS has increased efficiency and public services in a variety of areas. The county is renewing its ELA for another three years, ensuring continued access toArcGIS software to further develop the county's enterprise-wide GIS. Through its original ELA, Wayne County centralised six departments' geodatabases and deployed a variety of resources built on ArcGIS technology, including internal applications that allow non-GIS users, such as elections department staff, to access information and verify records; the online Wayne... (read more)

2011-05-13 12:00:00

Improved Service with Enterprise GIS

Nova Scotia Power is the main electricity provider of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, serving 490,000 residential and business customers. To deliver better service, the utility built OneGIS, a web portal that leverages Esri's geographic information system (GIS) technology. The solution, which centralises all of the utility's spatial asset data and makes it accessible throughout the organisation, allows the company to better manage its distribution network and deliver more reliable service. In recognition of its first-rate technology application, Esri Canada yesterday presented Nova Scotia Power with an Award of Excellence in GIS. "For utilities to operate intelligently, they need... (read more)

2011-11-04 03:20:28

XMap5.0 GIS Enterprise Software

DeLorme (MN, USA) has introduced its new XMap 5.0 GIS Enterprise suite of products, which includes a wide range of mapping, routing, navigation, GPS, and GIS file management features. As with previous releases, XMap 5.0 GIS supports the most common GIS data formats, including AutoCAD (.dxf, .dwg), ESRI (.eoo, .shp, .prj), .gml, .gpx, MapInfo (.mif, .tab), MrSid files, and GeoTIFF .tfw. At its various levels, XMap 5.0 GIS offers a variety of indispensable features including geospatial querying, buffering tools, bulk geo-data import, coordinate geometry support, and command line bulk import tools for advanced GIS users. All XMap 5.0 GIS solutions... (read more)

2006-11-03 12:00:00

Global GIS Enterprise License Renewal

Newmont Mining Corporation recently renewed its global geographic information system (GIS) enterprise license agreement with ESRI. The global enterprise license agreement enables Newmont to deploy the full suite of ArcGIS products in an open, scalable, and standards-based GIS architecture that will integrate with and leverage existing Newmont information technology (IT) resources. The ESRI global enterprise license allows Newmont unlimited access to ESRI GIS technology and support. Newmont uses ESRI technology to create distributed data repositories that replicate data from central servers. Employees ranging from GIS professionals to casual users access the company's data via an intranet portal. ... (read more)

2009-10-06 10:01:57

Intergraph Offers Geospatial Enterprise Integrator

Intergraph Corporation (AL, USA) has signed an agreement with ACE Enterprise Slovakia Ltd. to provide its SAP-certified integration software, Geospatial Enterprise Integrator, to Intergraph customers. Geospatial Enterprise Integrator allows organisations to seamlessly integrate Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems like SAP with geospatial solutions from Intergraph. The ACE solution simplifies the creation and maintenance of interfaces between enterprise systems, and it offers a drag and drop interface. As a result, users become self-sufficient in exploiting and reusing all of the data resources available across a company's heterogeneous data environment. In particular, utilities organisations will benefit from the integration of ERP and... (read more)

2007-03-05 04:04:07

Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence Suite 7

Definiens (Germany) has made available version 7 of the Definiens Enterprise Image Intelligence Suite. The latest version of this image analysis platform integrates automated image intelligence with GIS, providing a secure and cost-effective system across the enterprise for managing all image analysis tasks. By integrating feature extraction, change detection and object recognition in the GIS environments, the new version produces more accurate and detailed maps, presenting information cost efficiently and in a standardised format. The information contained in imagery can now be fully integrated into geospatial applications and enterprise processes. Based on an open architecture, the Definiens Enterprise Image... (read more)

2007-07-20 12:00:00

Esri and Smart Dubai Sign Enterprise Agreement

Esri has announced that Smart Dubai, the government agency leading Dubai's smart city transformation, has signed an enterprise agreement (EA) providing ArcGIS technology to 44 entities across the government. The EA will be used by Smart Dubai for its smart city platform, called 'Dubai Pulse', to integrate and map data for better decision-making. The shift toward smart technologies in recording and processing data is the foundation for success in the era of big data. Dubai Pulse will use Esri's geographic information system (GIS) technology – clubbed with data accumulated by the Dubai Data Establishment – to offer smart and secure... (read more)

2017-08-09 08:50:22

MapGuide Enterprise 2008 and Topobase 2008

Autodesk, Inc. (CA, USA) has unveiled Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2008 and Autodesk Topobase 2008 software products, two platforms to share location, design and enterprise information across departments. Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2008 builds on Autodesk's support for open source software to help public agencies, utilities and telecommunications customers extend the reach and value of geospatial information and knowledge through their organisations and beyond. As a central component of the Autodesk geospatial solution, Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise software utilises the Internet to deliver important, up-to-date asset and infrastructure information to the people who need it. Additionally, Topobase 2008-including a new customised module for... (read more)

2007-07-17 09:51:47

STAR INFORMATIC Supports Open Spatial Enterprise

STAR INFORMATIC (Belgium) announces its commitment to the Open Spatial Enterprise approach for the native storage of data in Oracle Spatial and Locator format for both Oracle9i and Oracle Database 10g. The latest release of the STAR ELEC suite of applications for the power industry, now proposes a native interaction (without any middleware involved) with Oracle Spatial for the storage and management of vector, raster, attribute and text data. STAR ELEC's commitment to the open spatial enterprise approach, advocated by major geospatial technology vendors Autodesk, Intergraph, Laser-Scan and Mapinfo, guarantees that the databases created and maintained by the STAR ELEC... (read more)

2005-03-21 12:00:00

Direct Cloud-link MAGNET Enterprise and AutoCAD

Topcon Positioning Systems has announced the first results of its collaboration with Autodesk. The partnership entails a direct link to AutoCAD WS within Topcon’s MAGNET Enterprise cloud service. This new capability will provide a direct path for field and office data to flow seamlessly from collection, design, review and adjustment between both solutions. The new capability is automatically available to all users of MAGNET Enterprise. Ewout Korpershoek, senior vice president of Topcon product management and marketing, said with Autodesk having the “world’s premier and most common” design software suites, and Topcon having industry-leading positioning products, the world’s largest base of... (read more)

2013-01-31 02:23:35