Beyond Enterprise GIS

Author: William A. Lloyd
Organization: PlanGraphics, Inc.

112 East Main Street
Frankfort, KY 40601
USA

Phone: 502/223-1501x22
Fax: 502/223-1235
blloyd@plangraphics.com

Implementing core GIS technology and accessing it from viewers throughout an organization is only the first step in realizing the potential value of GIS to an enterprise. The return on an investment in GIS technology will be maximized when the following occur:
1. All applicable business processes are spatially enabled.
2. GIS technology is empathetic to the organization's information technology users.
3. GIS actually impacts the organization's accomplishment of its strategic objectives.

As a result, GIS technology must be intimately integrated with an organization's business processes. It must be accessible by end users who know their jobs but don't know GIS. If GIS is not actually used on a daily basis by people who have no intimate knowledge of GIS, then the technology has little chance of making an impact on the organization's success.

This presentation will describe the steps to assure that GIS technology will achieve its potential, will examine the promise of object-oriented technology for surpassing enterprise GIS, and will suggest the potential of Internet technology to redefine the enterprise.