The Washington Bureau of the Press Enterprise was at the event to interview Dangermond and cover Esri's move the cloud. I found this quote from U.S. Interior Deputy Secretary David Hayes' presentation noteworthy.
We now have the power to make information digestible for the people who lead your agency. I get mesmerized by Jack Dangermond and his people, and what they can do.
- Press Enterprise
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/25 at 10:13 AM |
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While at the Esri Federal GIS Conference in Washington, D.C. this week I attended two session on Esri's strategy for cloud computing. The first was a private session hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS); the second was a public forum conducted by Esri's ArcGIS Server product managers.
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by Joe Francica on 02/23 at 07:18 PM |
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The Berrien County, Michigan, Geographic Information System (GIS) is holding a seminar to introduce its new GIS provded by Schnieder Corporation. The session is free (I think), but using the GIS is not.
The cost of using the GIS website is $15 per day or $50 per month plus a processing fee compared to the previous website price of $10 per hour plus a processing fee.
- Niles Star
There are allegations the tourism board in Joplin, MO is handing out maps to encourage visitors to the tornado ravaged area. Officials say the map was created to respond to direct requests, rather than to promote such visits.
- Joplin Globe
Moscow has spent 20 billion roubles on its own map, hoping it will be used to crowdsource data on streetlight outages and the like. It should be online next month at atlas.mos.ru. The city feels maps from Google and Yandex can't do that job. I think Esri is doing the mapping.
Sergei Scherbina, Deputy Director at ESRI CIS- Moscow map service developer says the Moscow informational site will be updated frequently with more information and services for users.
Open data proponents are wary of the new map and how embeddable it may be.
- RT
The City Council of Bainbridge, GA has an agreement with the University of Georgia's Carl Vinson Institute of Government to develop a GIS (Geographic Information System) for the City. The $45,000 will put 7,300 parcels online in about four months.
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/19 at 02:59 AM |
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ArcWatch has a nice description of what is to come in AGOL subscriptions (a write-up of what I heard at Esri for the most part) and provides these packaging and release details (but no pricing):
The new functionality offered as part of the subscription will be accessible through ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop, the ArcGIS map viewer, and ArcGIS Explorer Online. Organizations will be able to purchase monthly or annual subscriptions based on the number of users, storage capacity, and page views.
ArcGIS Online subscriptions will be in beta in fall 2011. To learn more, register for a free webinar to be held on December 6, 2011.
(I don't subscribe to ArcWatch, an e-mail newsletter; I'd love to see an RSS feed or Twitter account for it.)
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/26 at 03:32 AM |
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The gathering at the Esri Senior Executive Seminar is not about the "big ideas" but "big accomplishments." The individuals that are invited to attend this session are those that "do," the champions of GIS projects that have successfully implemented the "big ideas."
Welcoming the audience as he has done for several years was Dr. Roger Tomlinson who introduced Jack Dangermond (photo at right; click for larger image). While Dangermond has routinely espoused the potential of geospatial technology his tact this year was more to recognize the already tremendous successes GIS technology has had on the environment, health, and economic development. "GIS is increasingly becoming societal infrastructure," said Dangermond. "GIS is evolving and enabled by many things including computing and networks and cloud and mobiles devices … software is becoming multidimensional."
Dangermond however didn't dwell long on the successes of GIS extolling more the sweeping changes and "next big steps" that are to come. He sees how GIS is rolling into cloud environments providing a network of services, portals and applications by integrating distributed information using geography. "This is cause for pause because its new for many organizations," said Dangermond.
And then Dangermond continued with an additional cautionary message: "Successful GIS implementation is not just technology; Management needs to be involved. [They] need to have a governance and a finance model; many organizations don't get this right; it has to be planned as to what you can get out of these systems," he said. This was more pointed than Dangermond has been in the past that organizations must have both an organizational plan and a budgetary plan, not just a grand vision. He emphasized that there must be a clear business value and systematic planning.
This message of both optimism and "down to earth" realism was a theme running throughout the Senior Executive Seminar. Many of the speakers espoused similar feelings about managing success while keeping an eye on the bottom line.
See all of the Directions Magazine reports from Esri's Senior Executive Seminar:
by Joe Francica on 07/10 at 08:35 PM |
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