Services: Enterprise GIS
What is Enterprise GIS?
Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (Enterprise GIS) is an organization wide approach to GIS implementation, operation, and management. It integrates spatial data and technology across the organization, coupling centralized management with decentralized and distributed information use.
Enterprise GIS involves an integrated database and system architecture that provides users with different types and levels of access and functionality tailored to support their work processes, locations, and devices. Its design also integrates with other data and systems within an organization. With an enterprise GIS, users of spatial data spend more time on the analytical capabilities and business functions of a GIS and less time searching for, compiling, and integrating the data they require.
Although it is enabled by technology, enterprise GIS is a management approach that allows all the players within an organization to focus on their particular business:
- Information consumers have specific tools targeted to business process
- Ongoing business critical information is available when and how user require
- Ad hoc business intelligence tools provide "one of" or occasional information needs
- Data entry is controlled through specific processes and custom applications
- Data and information access is provided in a controlled, secure environment
- IT Infrastructure services maintains server availability and communication services
- Database Administrators ensure data integrity, security, and user access
What are the benefits of Enterprise GIS?
Enterprise GIS provides a comprehensive management approach that maximizes information availability and utility, minimizes potential conflicts and misunderstandings, and results in significant cost savings and performance improvements.
An Enterprise GIS provides:
- Support for the best tools for any job - each department can use its preferred software and data types, while working from a shared enterprise database
- Increasing productivity - eliminate the time wasted to convert or translate data and eliminate out-of-sync data or errors
- Increasing data accessibility - all users and key decision makers have quick access to the most accurate and up-to-date data
- Improving communication among departments - all independent systems communicate quickly and effectively, regardless of data format
- Increasing data security - by storing spatial data in a central database, your organization will maintain secure, high-quality data
- Enhance speed, reliability and uptime
- Enable easy web-based access for data sharing and community participation