In Brief
As much as 80% of your corporate information is likely to have a location context. Appreciating the location of customers, partners, prospects, assets, shipment movements and smart devices can deliver enormous productivity benefits and enable decision makers to make more informed judgements.
Geo-spatial intelligence software has traditionally required specialist IT and cartography skills to be able to use it. As the business value of location data has been realized - achieving productivity gains, removing inefficiencies, improving coordination etc. - the number of processes requiring geo-spatial technology has grown substantially.
It’s no longer sensible to purchase dedicated and prescriptive geo-spatial solutions for each specific process that could benefit from it.
Benefits
Reduce/Avoid CostsRemove data input costs by entering data on location
Prevent unnecessary site visits
Update information systems faster and avoid data errors
Support a mobile workforce to discharge tasks wherever they are
Input data on location and perform tasks while in area
Decrease Risk/Liability
Better communication of information to public, stakeholders and partners.
Utilize location information to make better decisions
Increase Business Opportunity
Interpret conflicts and synergies
Increase Revenues
Plan activities and campaigns more effectively
Achieve better targeting and coordination of services
Challenges
For Business LeadersFinding an enterprise scalable location awareness solution able to cascade through the organization to provide decision makers at all levels with the ability to access location-based data capture, analysis and visualization.
For IT Leaders
Selection of a technology that:
• Does not require dedicated onsite IT or cartographic competencies.
• Adopts standard RDBMS data management methodologies.
• Requires no client installation or downloads to deploy.
• Supports legacy geo-spatial formats such as ESRI Shapefiles™, DWG, MAPinfo TAB™, OS StreetMap™ / MasterMap™ and most binary formats.
• Ensures systems and data are protected by a robust ‘inclusive’ security architecture.
