Web GIS For Business

When you’re juggling multiple timber sales, contractors and employees, time is at a premium and actionable information is imperative. 

• Software from different vendors and architectures rarely function harmoniously, requiring excessive labor and training to operate.
• When Teams can’t easily use software in a way that works for them and their device, updates don’t make it in, creating operational gaps.
• Inadequate tech costs operations by through lost time and missed opportunities.
• Disparate technologies require constant attention to operate.
• Older technologies increase the risks ransomware and prevent organizations from innovations which save time, automate and analyze assets for financial gains.

Getting a recent aerial or satellite image for a tract can be painful and time consuming. Drones take too much time, tasking a fixed wing aircraft is cost prohibitive and searching the web often turns up short. To top it off, these traditional mechanisms for acquiring imagery involve handling huge files and even processing. There’s a new approach with Planet Labs and it’s truly revolutionary – read below to learn what we’re talking about.

• Are you handing the same information multiple times in different systems and need a better way?
• Is your business experiencing increasing information demands?
• Is it taking too long to get answers?
• Is there a feeling that important work is slipping through the cracks?

• Capture (Data) once, use everywhere.  Through once source of data and mobile, web and GIS apps, data can be entered and be instantly reportable.  Eliminating friction points in information processes adds up to significant time savings each day, each year, compounding to levels which impact the bottom line positively.   
• All information is mobile friendly, whether maps, harvest plans, silvicultural history and even  editing.
• End to end (field to office and back) workflows for business areas such as inventory and sustainability monitoring.
• Map, report and analyze expenses, revenue, plans, cutting activity and inventory in real time from anywhere.
• Inventory and imagery are integrated with stands, tracts and treatments via Planet Labs imagery

• Tract documents such as deeds searchable by tract names and in web apps.
• Access to up to date maps and land data by non-GIS users.
• Streamline county tax payment processes.
• Isolate mistakes tax bill to save tax expenses.

• Eliminate handling the same information in multiple systems.
• Science-based inventory methods which are defensible, repeatable and centrally managed.
• Reduction of lost time from one up to date version of tracts, stands, inventory and treatments accessible from wherever work is being done.
• More consistent, defensible answers to operational questions which come up every day.
• Automated answers for each level of the organization without having to wait for an analyst.

Why is it important to build on the ArcGIS platform and Microsoft Office 365 platform? 

1.  Done the right way, the solution you use will always be up to date.  The primary components are maintained by Esri and Microsoft.  This is a huge advantage over custom software maintained by a vendor which typically can’t keep up with technology changes let alone user enhancement requests.
2. Buy don’t build.  Are you working with a vendor making their own data export tools, or specialized mapping or reeporting caabilities.  In most cases computing platforms provide working components out of the box and they will maintain them.  In many cases the money save on the front end by using open source causes problems later.    
3. Cloud native:  https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/cloud-native/definition
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