In podcast we invite you to learn how NAVTEQ’s vector map data and DigitalGlobe’s worldwide image data have been specially formatted for the Oracle Database, and how it can be used to enhance customers' business intelligence and enterprise applications. We will hear from Steve Lytle, a Senior Account Manager NAVTEQ and Jim Beckley, Director of Business Development for DigitalGlobe, as well as Jim Steiner, Oracle’s Senior Director for Server Technology. This podcast also provides an in-depth review of Oracle 11g’s advanced geospatial features including support for 3D types and functions as well as Java programming with 3D and OGC web services such as WFST, WMS and the web catalog services.

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Oracle is rapidly location-enabling many of its business applications so that users can access, visualize, query and analyze spatial information together with non-spatial information in the same enterprise database, from the same familiar application environment.

In this podcast, learn firsthand how Oracle Utilities is taking advantage of Oracle Application Server MapViewer, Oracle Locator and Oracle Spatial in utility industry applications. In addition, you'll hear how many of the Oracle applications that were acquired from Siebel, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft will use Oracle Spatial Technology. We will be speaking to Peter Turi, Director, Product Management, Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Management, and Jim Steiner, Senior Director, Oracle Server Technology.


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Oracle Spatial

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Oracle Spatial 11g Book

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On the eve of our 5th Location Intelligence Conference I find myself looking around at who else has picked up using the term "location intelligence" to either describe what their product does or what business they think they are in. At a recent conference someone asked me and others on a panel for a definition. Having registered the URL years ago, I begged off on answering. I'd rather not confine the term to anything I or someone else says it is. It's a little like GIS these days...perhaps more buzz than something tangible. As it is, I count may companies adopting the phrase for just that reason. They don't want to be saddled with explaning the term GIS and propose using the phrase because it is more understandable, which was part of the reason I settled on the term in the first place.

However, it's being spread a little thin. Wavemarket, a mobile LBS provider, has adopted the term as has Pitney Bowes MapInfo, one of the original desktop mappers. geoVue, Oracle, DMTI Spatial, and others have all emphasized the use of the term in their own way. I believe it was DMTI that offered the definition in Wikipedia. Mark Smith, CEO/CTO at Ventana Research offers a definition for his BI clients around which they have an established LI practice. So, from LBS to GIS to BI, the usage of LI has been somewhat stretched.

But to me, that's fine. In cultivating the adoption of 'location intelligence' as a more cogent moniker about which hangs some better understanding of location-based applications, that's exactly how I had hoped the conference would evolve. In it's fifth year, LI has certainly grown to provide a venue where an eclectix mix of ideas and technologies can come together.

The one thing I find missing in evaluating whether to move from MS Outlook to apps provided by Google as a complete SaaS model is integration. The Calendar doesn't talk to email very well; adding contacts is clunky, etc. Perhaps the entire model is just not as clean as Outlook. But after watching the demo of Salesforce.com working with Google, I may be more convinced that a switch is coming. Of course, I'm looking at the demo for when maps will pop into the dashboard that you can create showing sales progress, etc. Ok, the demo didn't give maps any attention but someone else has. There have been mashups around for a few years but the recent announcement between the two companies have indicated that the integration is already there. SaaS in a Web 2.0 world is nothing new but the latest solution from Salesforce.com/Google is making an even more convincing argument for shelving client side apps.