Data management

In many organisations GIS has grown in an organic way. Several years later they find that their data is disorganised and inefficient. In many cases one department does not even realise that hard earned budgets have been spent on a particular data set by another department in the same organisation.

Centralising your data management, coming up with a logical structure and specifing data update regimes will significantly add to the efficiency of your business processes.

The SOLUTION to successful data management lies in the data model behind the system not in instigating large and costly centralised IT project.

Coming up with a sensible structure using the idea of virtual data stores it is possible to organise your data so that all can have access to it and those who own the data remian responsible for it.

• This approach means that money is not misspent installing expensive large, specialised, centralised IT solutions.
• Projects do not suffer from project creep and deliver what the business actually need.
• Those responsible for the data remain in charge of it and data upkeep and updating are a priority for them .

Sharing good quality metadata (the decription of each set of information) across the organisations is the start to realising the value of all your information assets.

To find out how such a strategic solution could work for your organisation please get in touch and we will be happy to show how our experiences with strategic projects and data management can help solve your data problems.

What about the GI Systems themselves?

Technology has moved rapidly in the last few months. Interoperability is now becoming an important part of all the major GI vendors. Together with this has come the growth and development of web mapping and open source software. With the advent of these developments it is becoming possible to put in corporate cost effective GI solutions and rationalise your GI usage.

We have many exciting ideas on how this can be realised and would be pleased to talk to you about these.