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.
by Adena Schutzberg on 09/08 at 06:09 AM |
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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."
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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.
by Joe Francica on 05/13 at 08:39 PM |
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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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by Joe Francica on 06/17 at 01:32 AM |
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