Great post, but the leaders mentioned are actually working to augment their location intelligence capabilities by developing partnerships with smaller vendors that have more powerful solutions, like Space-Time Insight, that go beyond location intelligence. For example, Oracle is working with Space-Time Insight on a partnership because Space-Time Insight is able to deliver more advanced features - more powerful visualization, on the fly location-aware analytics, remedial action scripts and direct links to workflow – that are different from what other vendors can do. It displays critical assets; the grid; natural disasters; weather, traffic and other feeds all on a satellite image to give context to the previously unreadable analytics. Space-Time Insight delivers out-of-the-box geospatial visualization and analytics software with pop-up scripts that let operators know what to do in a given situation and directly links to workflow systems, so people can take immediate action. In the new Reportlinker.com research report, “Enabling Technologies for the Smart Grid,” Space-Time Insight was the only company listed in the category “Interface and Decision Support” for the Smart Grid. In a totally different deployment, during those 1500 simultaneous wildfires in California last year, Space-Time Insight’s Crisis Management solution literally helped save San Diego’s electric supply by notifying operators for California ISO that there was a fire within a mile of the last transmission line transporting electricity to San Diego, and winds were pushing the fire towards the line. As a result, authorities re-directed air-dropped fire retardant to that area and to that specific transmission line – preventing an outage to San Diego downtown that could have lasted for days. San Diego was saved. Who’s next? Check it out at http://www.spacetimeinsight.com.