Thursday, October 23. 2008

Daratech's Foundyller: Intergraph May be #1 in GIS

[Daratech founder Charles] Foundyller estimates privately held ESRI's revenue at about $710 million last year. Privately held Intergraph lists 2007 revenue of $725.3 million, which might make it the market leader.

This comment appeared in an article about the use of ESRI technology in medical care at Loma Linda University Medical Center, not too far from ESRI headquarters in Redlands in Investor's Business Daily.
The most recent publicly available rankings I can find (recall that Daratech sells its reports and only sometimes offers press releases on marketshare) had the rankings: ESRI, Bentley, Autodesk, Intergraph. This from coverage of BE (May 2008) in the August 2008 issue of GIM.

Daratech is a market research company specialising in the information technology market, including GIS. A 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley a world number two, with geospatial revenue of over $200 million. The list is dominated by ESRI, with over half a billion US dollars, and numbered three and four are Autodesk and Intergraph, respectively: very close to Bentley in terms of turnover. The first European firm to appear on the list is Leica Geosystems, ranked number six.

As usual with such numbers, "your mileage may vary!"

Friday, September 12. 2008

Netezza to Announce Spatial Extension to Data Warehouse Appliance

We in the geospatial world have over the past decade or so wrapped our brains around spatial extensions for databases. I’m the first to admit, it took me quite a bit of time to get used to the idea that geometry was just another field like data and number. Now we are sort of blase about yet another database adding a geospatial type. That’s good because I need to blow your mind just a little.

Next week Netezza a data warehouse appliance company will announce its spatial extension to its database. “It has a database?”you ask. “I’ve never heard of it.” You and me both! But I spoke to Jonathan Shepherd, who heads the geospatial initiative at Netezza, who gave me the lowdown. Peter Batty was also on the call. He's been hinting at this for a while.

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Wednesday, June 11. 2008

GeoMedia Wiki

Even as Andres at BlinkGeo notes how few GIS technology providers offer blogs (ESRI = many, Autodesk = 1) Jeff Hobbs our blogging ambassador to Intergraph announces the GeoMedia Wiki. While it's not a blog and not hosted by Intergraph, the company has contributed funds and staff contributions of some kind.

For now content is limited, but the plan is to collect content on 3rd party add-ons, tutorials, examples and the like. I'll be keeping an eye on this Wiki since my students use GeoMedia (among other packages) in my Comparative GIS course.

Tuesday, March 11. 2008

Intergraph Offers “SmartGrid” Approach for Dynamic Utility Networks

A little over a year after Intergraph was taken private by three private equity firms Intergraph is building success in their Utility & Communication (U&C) division, a group just recently re-organized within the company. Although the company admits that it has taken some time to align their product technology with their vertical market sectors, it believes that customers are now embracing their direction. Sales in the U&C division reached $76 million in 2007 and projected to go higher this year. Strong growth in Europe is bolstering sales and partnering with large systems integrators like Siemens, Capgemini and Bearing Point allows Intergraph to provide targeted solutions with core technology.

Intergraph has offered a steady path for existing FRAMME customers to move to G/Technology and has moved five to six clients within the last year. Currently they have about 200 customers on G/Technology, which provides the foundation for several modules including water, gas, communications and electric and specific applications in outage management. According to the company, their SmartGrid technology is a means to “integrate communications networks with the power grid in order to create an electricity-communications superhighway capable of monitoring its own health at all times, alerting officials immediately when problems arise and automatically taking corrective action.”

Intergraph relies heavily on Oracle Spatial for data management but does not currently use any of Oracle’s network models feeling that their experience in the utility industry offers a better solution. The company has also begun to offer integration with Business Objects.

Wednesday, October 17. 2007

Rocket City: Tuesday Sessions

Details of sessions on:

- Web Services for Geospatial Information
- NGA Initiatives
- The latest technology II - Sensor Technology

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Tuesday, October 16. 2007

Rocket City: Monday Sessions

I had the luxury of sitting in on an entire day of sessions. Below are the details of:

- Statewide Issues I and II
- Southeast Regional Applications
- Data Integration and Sharing

(full agenda)

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