Geographic information system (GIS) is now gaining the interest of both local and international business groups. This was revealed during the 8th Philippine ESRI GIS User Conference held at the Crowne Plaza Galleria Manila, Quezon City Philippines last October 8 – 9 2008.
This year’s theme, “GIS: Innovative Solutions in a Challenged Environment” aptly focuses in introducing how GIS can benefit government and private organizations through location intelligence, thus meeting today’s environment challenges.
GIS, as defined by the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,(ESRI) “integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information”. For business establishments, GIS can assists marketing strategies implemented by the company, particularly in building a new branch of the business. For government, GIS can display data of crime hotspots or earthquake movement and history which are both vital for security and safety purposes.
The two-day event featured technical track session, product display and plenary sessions through the joint effort of Geodata Systems Technologies, Inc., and ESRI organized by Events@Work.
This year’s theme, “GIS: Innovative Solutions in a Challenged Environment” aptly focuses in introducing how GIS can benefit government and private organizations through location intelligence, thus meeting today’s environment challenges.
GIS, as defined by the Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc.,(ESRI) “integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information”. For business establishments, GIS can assists marketing strategies implemented by the company, particularly in building a new branch of the business. For government, GIS can display data of crime hotspots or earthquake movement and history which are both vital for security and safety purposes.
The two-day event featured technical track session, product display and plenary sessions through the joint effort of Geodata Systems Technologies, Inc., and ESRI organized by Events@Work.
Web Philippines Inc., thanks the following sources
ABS-CBN Global News Demand for Geographic Information Systems growing (Posted October 14, 2008) Retrieved November 4, 2008
http://www.abs-cbnglobal.com/ItoangPinoy/News/GlobalNews/tabid/139/ArticleID/3463/TargetModuleID/515/Default.aspx
Asian Biztimes Geodata appoints MediaG8Way Corp. as media partner for GIS Confab. (Posted September 1, 2008) Retrieved November 4, 2008
http://www.aseanbiztimes.com/viewpage.php?id=68&page=infotech
GIS.com What is GIS? Retrieved November 4, 2008
http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html
GIS.com Why use GIS? Retrieved November 4, 2008
http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/whyusegis.html
Valmero, Anna INQUIRER.net RP next hotbed for GIS deployment Retrieved November 4, 2008
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20081009-165514/RP-next-hotbed-for-GIS-deployment
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