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Wednesday, June 17. 2009
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Intergraph Sets Future for G/Technology Enhancements for Utility Applications
Intergraph announced product enhancements for their G/Technology applications that are used by the utility (gas, water, electric, telecommunications) industry.
With this next product release for this year, G/Technology will be able to consume the OGC WFS & WMS specifications, To the end user, these additional services will look like just another layer that may come from other sources. Addition support includes the following:
Basic workflow support:
- support output to PDF layers
- improved relationship integrity (interior connectivity at placement and break)
- STORMS Work Management System (enhance interface for improved work point handling; Areas of Interest (supports discontiguous shapes)
- customization - an API already exists to design applications against the G/Technology platform
- enhancement planned will include designer and plotting features (rotate map in plot window; change map background color; export to CAD; legend manipulations)
- viewer customization (CAB framework enhancements; support for configurable button sizes and keyboard events)
Specific workflow enhancements
- Streamlined simple printing so you can see immediately how a map will fit on paper and the user will be able to print directly from page setup.
- Output enhancements: specify PDF driver as output device for batch plot and to output to a layered PDF
Enhancements for MobileViewer and NetViewer
Easier data entry for lists
Enhanced sorting and scrolling for results data
Virtualization and applications publishing planned for release later this year and to be certified for Citrix XenApp
Vision for Future G/Technology beyond this years releases:
- better metaData management workflows
- new client technology
- manage user roles and privileges
- automated feature and component creation
- selecting and porting or removing subsets of metadata
- visual management tools (Attributes, Map, Relationships)
- document generation and configuration update
- user definition and role assignment
- enterprise database optionality: adding SQL Server as option for G/Technoogy database; G/Technology has traditionally supported Oracle Spatial
Miscellaneous planned 2009 enhancements
- improved map fidelity incorporating GeoMedia capabilities
- incorporate GeoMedia rendering
- translucency for effective analysis with richer display
- single sign on user characteristics stored in industry standard formats and retrieved for G/Technology login and the plan is to have this in an industry standard storage location such as LDAP
G/Technology product release schedule
- G/Technology 9.4.3 release is imminent and planned for June 2009 based on Oracle Relational Storage; After this only maintenance mode fixes only no enhancements after 9.4.3 release
- G/Technology 10.0.2 Oracle Spatial Storage support previously released December 2008
- G/Technology 10.1 Planned Q4 2009
- G/Technology 10.1.1 Proposed late 2010
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