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IT INDUSTRY
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Satellite informatics and Geographic information system technology is evolving beyond the traditional GIS community and becoming an integral part of the information infrastructure in many organizations. The unique integration capabilities of a GIS allow disparate data sets to be brought together to create a complete picture of a situation.
Satellite GIS provides essential information sources for many levels of society. As IT professionals, you need the best tools to be able to coordinate and communicate key concepts among departments within an organization. Share crucial information across organizational boundaries.
Satellite informatics and technology illustrates relationships, connections, and patterns that are not necessarily obvious in any one data set, enabling organizations to make better decisions based on all relevant factors. GIS technology is also being used via the Internet and Web services.
Benefits
GIS Enterprise Solutions that Include GIS
There is a growing interest in and awareness of the economic and strategic value of GIS in large organizations. The benefits of GIS generally fall into the following basic categories.
- Cost savings resulting from greater efficiency. These are associated either with carrying out the mission such as labor savings from automating or improving a workflow, or improvements in the mission itself. A company is able to improved customer service, increased efficiency with respect to return visits to the same site, and provided more efficient scheduling of customers.
- Better decision making. This typically has to do with making better decisions about location. Common examples include real estate site selection, route selection, zoning, planning, conservation, natural resource extraction, etc. Making the correct decision about a location is increasingly seen as strategic to the success of an organization.
- More communication. GIS-based maps and visualizations greatly assist in understanding situations and story telling. They are a new kind of language that improves communication between different teams, departments, disciplines, professional fields, organizations, and the public.
- Better geographic information recordkeeping. Many organizations have a primary responsibility of maintaining authoritative records about the status and change of geography. Cultural examples are zoning, population census, land ownership, and administrative boundaries. Physical geography examples include forest inventories, scientific inventories, environmental measurements, water flows, and a host of geographic accountings.
GIS provides a strong system framework for managing these types of systems with full transaction support and reporting tools. These systems are conceptually similar to other information systems in that they deal with data management and transactions, as well as standardized reporting, or maps of changing information. These systems are fundamentally different because of the unique data models and hundreds of specialized tools used in supporting GIS applications and workflows.
Standards-Based GIS Technology for Your Organization
GIS technology provides the framework for a shared spatial data infrastructure and a distributed architecture. Geographic data can be gathered and organized to support the generation of information products that are integrated into the business strategy of your organization.
GEOSAT has developed its products based on open standards to ensure a high level of interoperability across platforms, databases, development languages, and applications. We are committed to supporting and actively leading efforts associated with such standards.
For your business strategy, this means compatibility and interoperability support with major enterprise systems such as
- Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
- Customer resource management (CRM)
- Enterprise application integration (EAI)
- Work management systems
For GIS technology, this means standards that support
- Data sharing
- Direct data access
- Web APIs and services
- Data models
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