Tuesday, September 8. 2009

China GIS Growth: Homegrown

China Economic Net has a not very well sourced article about the growth of the geospatial market in the country. Among the interesting tidbits:

Made-in-China geographic information system softwares represented by SuperMap and MapGIS have been emerging in succession and formed early scale.

Up to now, made-in-China 3D GIS softwares have taken up half of native market shares. A great deal of softwares in the industries like remote sensing and navigation have also realized independent innovation and occupied over 90 percent of native market shares.

There's a nod the past stats of 20 percent growth per year, but there's no numbers associated with the recent situation.

Wednesday, May 13. 2009

IDC Market Metrics & Sonnen on Spatial Enterprise 2.0

Dave Sonnen of IDC/ISSI provided one of the keynote presentations today at Korem's Geodiffusion Conference in Quebec City. Here are some of the details, insights and market metrics that he presented to the audience:

IDC says geospatial technology has grown to $3 Billion in total software revenue with systems integration and custom application development providing an additional multipler affect of 3x to 5x that amount.

Sonnen also said that IDC is tracking 700 companies that do geospatial.

Overall market size is $50-$60 Billion in total revenue for acquiring, managing, analyzing map data. Sonnen also commented that some of the complaints about traditional geospatial technology is that it's "too cautious, too incremental, and too dull...The technology is tailored largely for insiders but these are normal characteristics of any established industry."

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a paradigm adopted by the Defense Intelligence Agency that allows analysts to do intelligence-gathering from wherever and whatever source that it happens to be … wikis, blogs, whatever. Let the users find information and intelligence using a human-centered experience.

Sonnen's notion of the Spatial Enterprise 2.0 acknowledges that spatial information will just be part of the infrastructure and that location-specific data will be generated by everything: mobile device being one example.

Tuesday, October 14. 2008

Gartner Does Not See IT Bust along with Economy

CIO Magazine reports that at Gartner's Symposium/ITExpo, analyst Peter Sondergaard predicted that, "In a worst-case scenario, our research indicates an IT spending increase of 2.3 percent in 2009, down from our earlier projection of 5.8 percent...Developed economies, especially the United States and Western Europe, will be the worst affected, but emerging regions will not be immune. Europe will experience negative growth in 2009; the United States and Japan will be flat."

Tuesday, June 17. 2008

Podcast: Who is #1 in GIS...and Does it Really Matter?

Who's #1 in GIS? How big is the GIS market? Is the impact of Google affecting the sales of GIS vendors? These questions are asked all the time and the answer is...nobody really knows. But more to the point, does it really matter. With the fragmentation of the geospatial technology market during the last few years, it is difficult to place a number on the total size of the market, despite the best efforts of market research firms. Editor-in-chief Joe Francica lays out a framework for the sectors of the geospatial market and what really needs to be considered when trying to size the market...but as importantly, why the numbers today are irrelevant.
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Friday, June 1. 2007

Newsflash: "80% per cent of online information includes a geographic element"

PCPro covers Google Developer Day held yesterday worldwide. I found this paragraph interesting.

Other points raised in the keynote were the claim that 80% per cent of online information includes a geographic element, hence the importance of mapping to Google as it bids to organise the world's data. It is not all explicit mapping data - in terms of latitude and longitude - but involves the location of particular people, objects or services.

Ok, so, now we have ancedotal info that of all data 80% has a geographic compenent and now Chris DiBona, Google's Open Source Program Manager, speaking at the London event, claims that's true of online information. Google might be able to back that up; it'd be nice if they did so we can quote it with confidence.

Also, consider, "It is not all explicit mapping data." Indeed. That's why when I first met the MetaCarta guys I wondered (and did again when I saw them last week) why Google has not yet acquired the company. (I got mostly smiles as a response.) Now, I have to believe other companies, even Google, are trying to do what MetaCarta does - identify, extract and geocode location in unstructured text. This is pretty specialized stuff from what I understand and is finding a market in petrolem and the public sector. I believe it's a key component to Google's goal to "organise the world's data." (See my coverage who's using MetaCarta technology and how here.)

Wednesday, April 25. 2007

Gartner Releases SWOT Analysis on Outage Management Providers

Gartner has released a market research report on software solution providers to the electric utilities market and specifically for outage management solutions (OMS). The report develops a SWOT (strength, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis for each software company and examines current market conditions that are leading utilities to improve communication and responsiveness in emergency situations. At the top of the list was Oracle Utilities followed closely by GE Energy while Intergraph, Miner and Miner and others were designated as niche players in the market. The report mentions the relationship between GE Energy and Oracle that we reported following the GITA conference this year in which GE announced plans to develop additional solutions directly on the Oracle Platform.