GIS/IT Systems Integration

GIS delivers real value when integrated with an enterprise's traditional line-of-business data and applications

The Problem

Companies spend millions of dollars on managing GIS information - from acquiring it, to accessing it, to storing it. Cost and complexity soar as the enterprise information load increases. Much of this GIS information is hard-wired into information silos, or GIS projects where it gets trapped, making it difficult, if not impossible to access, and even harder to truly leverage within dynamic business processes.

Enable non-GIS applications with location functionality

Farallon system integration can add geographical components and analysis to your existing or planned INFORMIX, Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft SQL Server based data warehouse.

For example: A permit system using an Oracle relational database management system developed with PowerBuilder software can communicate with a .NET-based tax assessment system to determine first if a permit applicant has paid their tax bill, and then if the property is within a certain distance of a floodplain or wetland, which would in turn determine the permit process and fees.

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The Solution

Farallon helps to manage information complexity and break down those internal barriers. In our view, the geospatial data and maps managed within an enterprise GIS represent a kind of common language that is understood within and across organizational boundaries. This language has the power to weave together and integrate traditionally disparate business functions, such as property ownership, utility infrastructure, and emergency response. Each of these diverse functions is ultimately dependent upon the location and spatial relationships between real property, assets, and people.

By integrating with traditional IT, existing workflows and backend systems, we ensure that geospatial information is consistently available, useful, relevant, and ready to deliver economic value.

Systems Integration

Extracting the maximum value from a GIS requires more than just publishing map layers to a web-mapping site. GIS delivers real value when integrated with an enterprise's traditional line-of-business data and applications. Farallon's systems integration solutions include:

  • GIS and Electronic Document Management Integration
  • GIS and CRM and ERP Integration
  • GIS and E-911 Systems Integration
  • GIS and CAMA Integration
  • GIS and eBusiness/eGovernment Integration
  • GIS and Legacy Database Integration

Geospatial Portals

If a GIS acts as the common language spoken between enterprise applications, then a GIS-enabled portal is the "dashboard" that consolidates these applications into a single, web-based view.

Portals offer a compelling means of integrating and consolidating disparate Information Technology systems. When properly implemented, applications hosted on a variety of computing platforms, databases, and development languages coalesce within a web portal, creating a single, secure point-of-entry into the enterprise knowledge base.

GIS Interoperability

Our developers have unmatched expertise in implementing multi GIS vendor products, creating a seamless enterprise GIS that delivers the traditional strengths of ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo, and AutoDesk products. Interoperability includes centralized spatial data management, web/application integration services and application connectivity services.

At Farallon, we build geo-spatial interoperability using standards and specifications already adopted by the IT community. Our approach is built upon:

  • GIS-enabled Web services
  • XML-enabled GIS portals
  • Open GIS Consortium (OGC) Specifications
  • Open Database Technologies such as Oracle Spatial

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