Tuesday, May 13. 2008

Podcast: Four Technologies That May Soon Impact Geospatial...Are You Ready?

The editors look outward to find technologies that will impact how geospatial products and practices will change in the next 12 to 24 months. Some of the suggested technologies are already appearing in cutting edge products, others are not yet implemented in geospatial solutions, but we expect to see them soon.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Open Source, RFID, Microsoft, Oracle, Databases, Sensors, Directions on the News Podcast, Local Search, Wi-Fi, GNSS, IBM, Geospatial Business, Social Networking at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, May 6. 2008

Podcast: Why is it so Hard to Sell Geospatial Technology to the Enterprise?

Senior executives from leading technology companies, speaking at our Location Intelligence Conference last week shared that the entire value proposition for spatial enablement is a "push" to the market rather than a "pull" or demand for the technology. Our editors ask: Are we doing an adequate job of selling the technology to more of the people that will eventually implement geospatial tools with other IT solutions.?Why is it still so hard? What are we not doing well? Will it take another "Google Earth" to push the technology deeper into corporate computing or a new crop of graduates to be more geospatially enlightened?

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, RFID, Microsoft, Oracle, GPS, Location Intelligence, Directions on the News Podcast, Wi-Fi, IBM, Location Intelligence 2008, Geospatial Business, Social Networking at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Thursday, January 17. 2008

Podcast: Agile Practices - An Introduction

Did you ever wonder what happens to bring your GIS software to market? For many years a process referred to as the "waterfall method" was used. In the last 10 or so years a new method came on the scene, one referred to as agile practices. Today, with insights from agile proponents like my guests Chris Spagnuolo and Dave Bouwman of Data Transfer Solutions, GIS development organizations, including ESRI, are looking to this new way of managing and developing software.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, ESRI, Microsoft, Special Topics Podcast, IBM, Geospatial Business at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, December 4. 2007

Podcast: ESRI to Go Agile; GeoBiz follows IT in M&A Trends

This week we couldn't agree on a single topic so we bring you two. First Adena Schutzberg explores ESRI's decision to hire a senior executive who will promote agile product management within the company. Then Joe Francica highlights parallels between what's going on in mergers and acquisitions in the broader IT market and in geospatial. The podcast is 13 minutes long and was recorded on November 30, 2007.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, Microsoft, Oracle, Directions on the News Podcast, IBM, Geospatial Business at 01:00 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) |

Tuesday, October 16. 2007

Podcast: The Maturation of the Software Buyer

This week Adena Schutzberg offers a commentary focusing on changing attitudes in the technology and geospatial marketplace. In particular, she suggests we are growing more and more comfortable with smaller software providers, smaller consulting firms and non-traditional development/distribution and licensing models, that is with open source. The podcast was recorded on October 12, 2007 and is 12 minutes long.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in ESRI, Open Source, Microsoft, Oracle, Autodesk, Directions on the News Podcast, IBM, Geospatial Business at 01:00 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

Wednesday, September 26. 2007

IBM Mapping Health Care Records

The technology from IBM's Zurich Research Lab, the technology uses an avatar to map an individual's medical records to the correct part of the body. It's called the Anatomic and Symbolic Mapper Engine (ASME), and like a GIS if a doctor clicks on part of "body" a search of records summons information related to that bit.

Obligatory quote: "It's like Google Earth for the body," said IBM Researcher Andre Elisseeff, lead in healthcare projects at IBM's Zurich lab.

The had some of the same development challenges we in geospatial know:

Using advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art 3D modeling techniques, the IBM researchers overcame key technical challenges including integrating heterogeneous data sources and complex text-based information -- so-called unstructured data -- and linking that data to the anatomical model in a meaningful and easy-to-navigate way.

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