Andre Parris is the global manager for energy and commodity trading at Bloomberg, the financial news publishing conglomerate. Mr. Parris is responsible for developing the BMAP application, a business and location intelligence dashboard that displays a plethora of location-based information related to energy commodities. In this interview with Directions Media’s editor in chief, Joe Francica, Mr. Parris explains how the application was developed and the types of analyses that can be performed by commodity traders to get the latest, real-time information about various factors that might impact commodity prices from around the world. You can listen to the audio interview and view a brief demo of the application below. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
In this interview with the Chair-Elect of the Coalition of Geospatial Organizations,COGO, Ms. Geney Terry speaks about how the organization can effect better communication among its members and what that might produce in being better advocates for the broader geospatial community. Editor in Chief, Joe Francica, spoke with Ms. Terry about COGO’s current initiatives and what her objectives are in helping to facilitate COGO’s "voice" in legislative issues before Congress and broadening the organization’s outreach in education and professional development. Listen Now (to download, right click on the link at left and choose "save target as")
This week Safe Software introduced its 20th release of FME, FME 2010. Executive Editor Adena Schuzberg speaks with co-founders Don Murray and Dale Lutz about its speediness, and features for longstanding as well as new users. The pair also touch on cloud computing and Safe’s use of it for customers and the company itself, the Olympics and 1 900 numbers.
This podcast is a recording of a press conference by Vice Admiral Robert Murrett, Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) at the GEOINT Symposium 2009 on October 21, 2009 in San Antonio. Murrett discusses the new NGA charter, the situation with aiding and supporting both domestic and military missions and other issues related to the agency’s work.
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Recently, Editor in Chief Joe Francica met with Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley Systems, the geospatial and engineering software and solutions company. He sat down with Bentley at his office in Exton, PA and discussed the company’s focus on infrastructure, a timely topic given the global investments being made by many countries to stem the economic downturn. Bentley discussed the company’s financial position and how the economy has affected revenue performance. He mentioned that the company reached two significant milestones this year: Bentley attained $500M in revenue in 2008 and it will also celebrate 25 years in business. This audio interview lasts approximately 25 minutes and was recorded on May 19th, 2009.
