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Abstract
Building GIS Internet Application Services: The i-Franchising Experience
Track: Geography Network
Author(s): Sandro Gizzi
GIS use in Italy, both in the private and in the public sector, is still very limited among small and medium-small organizations, due to the cost of the needed equipment, software, and data; the user know-how required to specify, procure, and maintain the system; and the rapid obsolescence of the latter. Providing access to GIS technology and applications in the form of services, allows many users to share expensive and rare resources, bringing the access price down to an affordable level and relieving the users from the need to have IT specialists locally available. Telespazio has associated with a specialized consultants group, forming a consortium which has implemented a vertical portal, named i-franchising. The system is designed in a layered fashion, with data and tools for specific applications. Also more "generic" components exist at a lower logical level that can be exposed as Web services, in order to be "consumable" by other applications.
Sandro Gizzi
i-franchising
c/o Telefranchising
via Tiburtina
965 - 00156 Roma 965 - 00156
Italy
Phone: +39.06.40793130
Fax: +39.06.40793761
E-mail: sandro_gizzi@telespazio.it