Monday, July 27. 2009

GCN Tackles FusionX/Fusion Core Solution

FusionX was announced at the last November (press release), and renamed and relaunched at the ESRI User Conference (press release) as Fusion Core Solution, but neither ESRI nor Microsoft seemed to do much outreach on the offering, aimed at Fusion Centers. GCN has a write-up with this interesting quote suggesting why it came to be:

“We tried a year and a half ago to integrate ArcGIS with Microsoft SharePoint but failed,” Brian Egnitz, GIS program manager for the Massachusetts State Police, which hosts Massachusetts' Commonwealth Fusion Center.

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Computerworld Talks to Dangermond on ESRI's 40th Anniversary

The short interview yields a few interesting tidbits:

"I don't think it was inevitable that geographic information systems would have come into being in the way they have [without ESRI]"
- Interesting conjecture; we'll never know!

"Sears invested $4 million to build a system, and they saved $43 million a year as a result of automating their trucks for delivery."
- That implementation seems to be the one ESRI continues to hold up as an example. One reason no other names/number may pop up? Other users may not have given permission to share such information.

"In the early years, GIS was largely a proprietary technology. It invented its own standards for doing things. GIS has moved from that position to using IT standards and standards-based technology."
- Is that unique to GIS or is that true of other disciplines?

- Computerworld

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