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More details regarding the impetus behind the alignment came through today in a call with Rich Humphrey, director of the civil infrastructure line at Autodesk, and James Buckley, senior vice president and general manager of customer data and location intelligence, at Pitney Bowes Software. One of the more immediate customer-focused advancements will be the delivery [...]

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Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk’s vice president of Suites, Web Services and Subscription, spoke this morning about the cloud at Autodesk University in Las Vegas. The aim at Autodesk is to leverage cloud computing to open up new capabilities for their users. – collaboration with large data sets has been a focus for some time, with Buzzsaw [...]

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Today at the GeoInt Seminar in San Antonio the focus was placed on integration of intelligence, and the efficiencies that can be gained with greater IT alignment. With planned budget cuts in the double-digit billions of dollars in the next ten years within the intelligence community, half of those savings are expected to come from [...]

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Chinese Company Looks at Navigation as a Platform

by Matt Ball on August 22, 2011

UniStrong, the market leader in navigation devices in China, is poised to prosper at the country’s navigation industry matures, and as the country’s Compass navigation satellite constellation takes shape. UniStrong holds 40 percent of the market for automobile navigation systems in what is projected to be a 100 billion yuan ($15.6 billion) market over the [...]

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Academics are hampered by their ability to process and analyze increasingly large volumes of data in their research. Microsoft unveiled a cloud-based data analysis and processing framework called Project Daytona today in order to help address this problem. Daytona is a tool kit that allows scientists to run a variety of analytics and machine-learning algorithms [...]

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What is the potential for self-service GIS?

by Matt Ball on July 15, 2011

The concept of self-service GIS software has been elusive to date due to the increasing capability and complexity of the software toolset, the IT overhead for configuration and maintenance, and the need for training and skill acquisition in order to feel comfortable driving the software. While these constraints are certainly still a factor, the amount [...]

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Esri Announces ArcGIS for Water Utilities

by Matt Ball on May 3, 2011

Esri is reorganizing their Water Utility Resource Center into a new ArcGIS for Water Utilities offering that will be available prior to the Esri User Conference in July. The new collection of maps and apps are designed to address the needs of water, wastewater and stormwater utilities. The combination of desktop, mobile GIS, web GIS, [...]

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ArcGIS.com Means a Full GIS in the Cloud

by Matt Ball on March 22, 2010

In a continuation of ESRI’s cloud-centric strategy following the Federal User Conference, where the relationship with Amazon Web Services was announced, this week’s Business Partner Conference includes news that users will be able to rent ArcGIS Server on Amazon and just pay for usage. In addition there are plans to have an online application store [...]

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