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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

What if your IT manager walked into your office and let you know it was time to move your geospatial operation into the cloud? What would you do? Where would you start? Do you even know what questions to ask? Our editors assess the state of the geocloud and offer some advice on how to prepare for what may be that inevitable knock on the door.

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by Adena Schutzberg on 08/17 at 01:00 AM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

If indeed the Esri UC is the most important GIS event in the industry, what does that mean for other events? Other communities that do not participate? Directions Magazine editors contemplate the implications and what options are available to bring together the whole community.

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

We are halfway through 2009. Directions Media editors have been to about a dozen user and specialty conferences in the U.S. and around the world, including ESRI’s huge event last week. What themes are emerging? What can we tease out about the future? Our editors try to make sense of five key themes they’ve identified.


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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

MISO are Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle, the big enterprise players in the market today. All have a toe or more in GIS, but all also have a tie to ESRI. What’s the state of those relationships and what new players also want and need to hook up with the big E? Our editors explore these questions and toss in a few other letters, G, A and B into the alphabet soup.

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Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Last week Ask.com moved off its longtime mapping platform to Microsoft’s Virtual Earth. What are the practical choices these days for those who want mapping as part of their portals? Has customization and a unique look and feel been overshadowed by a few strong hosted solutions to which everyone will eventually migrate? Our editors sort out the options and trends and end up using the “c” word - commodity.

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