I sat down with Bill Meehan, director, Utilities Solutions at ESRI at the recent GITA Geospatial Infrastructure Solutions Conference. We had a wide-ranging conversation that touched on the role of GIS in an enterprise, the evolution of this enterprise GIS vision, and the role of GIS in Smart Grid design and deployment.
Here’s one of my favorite quotes from the interview.
“About four years ago, our folks starting to think about GIS not just as a mapping application but as a framework or a foundation of technology — almost like Maximo or SAP or Oracle or other foundational technology. So we created the idea of our GIS server, which really took us out of the laboratory, the science projects, and little mapping departments into the enterprise. ArcGIS Server changes the game from a departmental application to an information foundation. All departments in the organization can benefit, not just the engineers and operations people.”
Read the full interview here.
