What is Enterprise GIS Development?
What is an enterprise GIS? The most familiar definition is an approach for implementing GIS throughout an organization. Enterprise GIS is also an architecture that integrates geospatial data and services and shares them across the organization. In more general IT terms, it can also be viewed as an infrastructure that extends and enables existing systems using geospatial data and services.
In recent years, many organizations have become data rich while remaining information poor. Implementing GIS across the organization benefits business managers and other decision makers who can use geospatially enabled data to devise better solutions to business problems.
How we can help:
When implemented on the enterprise level, GIS leverages an organization's existing resources in data, staff, and funds by eliminating redundancies and streamlining processes. It also provides qualitative improvements in operations by responding to issues of accountability and customer service.
We can design an Enterprise system that will provide a platform for dealing with geographic information and processes from the desktop to the server to the Internet to mobile devices. This single scalable architecture encompasses multiple complementary products for both end users and developers that are built on industry standards.
Some of the most daunting challenges facing a GIS manager remain organizational, social, and/or political in nature. Consequently, many of the qualities required for success a decade ago also remain the same. These include leadership abilities, business management skills, and an understanding of the power of geospatial information.
We will tackle these issues to make your team ready for an Enterprise GIS system by listening to needs, creating specific programs, and training your team.