It has been a busy couple of months for Latitude with two major releases.
Essentials 3.12 and Silverlight Viewer 1.8 was released in the middle of January. This has been a substantial release with three major features; Fine Grained Component Security, Site Inheritance and Esri webmap integration. In addition Latitude have also released HTML5 Viewer 1.2 which now supports offline data provision and editing. Continue reading
We still occasionally get challenged about the need for enterprise GIS. The most frequent challenge: “surely Google could do all this stuff for free”.
Very few of our customers are organizations in isolation. They are typically at the hub of a network of relationships including central government, regional government, local government and private sector organizations. Moreover, they need to support complex integration between geospatial and other enterprise systems to satisfy internal business outcomes and communicate with external stakeholders; in many cases their citizen stakeholders.
Getting up at 3:30am for a second time is much harder than the first that’s for sure. The tea and biscuits have yet to do their work and I’m struggling with the first session of the day. It’s a shame because the first session is actually very applicable to many clients in NZ. Mark Greninger – Geographic Information Officer of LA County discussed the move from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server and Essentials. One of the points that he made was the importance of an active user community where users can ask questions, post code and share their experiences. In the coming weeks EGL will be launching an online forum to achieve just this.
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This morning my alarm went off at 3:10am, I was attending the Geocortex 2011 User Conference, this year held entirely online and given the time difference between Auckland and Victoria BC it meant an early start. I knew I wasn’t alone however with 150 delegates from around the world attending and at least two other poor souls from EGL up at this ungodly hour I felt part of a user community even if I couldn’t see them.
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Latitude Geographics had a hard act to follow after the release of Essentials 3.3, the jump in functionality had been awesome, but with 3.4 Latitude have proved that they plan to continue with frequent release and amazing growth in functionality and usability.
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Over the past few weeks EGL have been implementing Geocortex Essentials 3.3, and one useful task is being able to hook a customised Workflow to an “I Want to” button…
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