Intergraph Geospatial Embarking on Goal Toward Native 64-bit Architecture
In a briefing delivered by Intergraph’s Security, Government and Infrastructure (SG&I) division CTO, Mark Doherty, he reported that the company is moving forward in developing the next generation software based on a native 64-bit architecture, evolving to a complete SOA model, and providing new web clients based on AJAX and Silverlight. The first versions of this next generation of software is planned for late 2011.
Some new developments that clients will see is the integration of Microsoft Visual Studio Workflow Designer embedded inside of GeoMedia to more easily create customer applications. SG&I is evaluating cloud infrastructure through Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 services, and GeoMedia WebMap has already been successfully prototyped on Amazon EC2. Doherty believes that some software components will have to be re-architected in order to take advantage of full cloud services.
Some key trends that Doherty sees in architecting and deploying solutions are:
- Thick to thin and smart clients – slow evolution underway and will continue to happen
- Dedicated servers to virtualized infrastructure, Cloud computing (private and public) clouds
- On premise IT – moving toward SaaS and hosted solutions
Doherty sees that the ultimate goal is to have thin/smart clients that rely upon SG&I services inside a cloud platform.
Platform consolidation and enhancement:
- Identity and Access Management
- LDAP and Windows Identity Framework-based
- Services Architecture
- Implemented in G/Technology 10.1 and I/CAD 9.1
- Consolidating and enhancing G/Technology and GeoMedia – making progress but need to do more
- Map display
- Data model
- Raster
- I/CAD Enhancements for 911 dispatching
- WPF Monitors
- INGR Interoperability Framework
- Future Public Safety Capabilities
- New geospatial capabilities
- Next Generation Emergency services
- Integrated text messaging
- Additional multimedia capabilities
- Advanced call handling
- Communications Convergence
- Building on European project and existing capabilities
- Telephony and radio communications workflows
- Major Event Management
- Planning and response
- Integration w/ I/CAD
- Security Monitoring – Sensor and Video Integration
- Alarm detection
- Video Assessment – event and alarm location can be associated with live camera feeds
- Response
- GeoMedia 3D
- Rich 3d display
- Integrate 3d in existing workflows and analysis
- Available Q4 2010
- GeoMedia Motion Video Analyst Professional
- Integrates georeferenced video and geospatial info
- Full control over video playback
- Mobile for Public Safety
- Intuitive user interface
- Touch screen support
- Integration with Bing and Google Maps
- Customizable with HTML,, Java script and XMLs
