Today I was named one of the top 50 analyst bloggers by Jonny Bentwood’s Technobabble 2.0. Jonny is a PR consultant for Edelman and he specializes in analyst relations. He based his ranking on several factors, including Google PageRank and Technorati authority. The Geo Factor is the only blog listed focusing on the business of […]
At the recent trendy Where 2.0 conference, Google and Microsoft announced new capabilities for their online mapping services, focused on three-dimensional photographic views of a few large U.S. cities. And Google just announced it would acquire Panoramio for linking photos to the geographic location at which they were taken. While interesting to look at, the […]
Fifteen years ago, when the GPS system malfunctioned, most people didn’t notice. Sure, it was used by pilots and even banks for setting time. But the average person had no need to know. Now, however, GPS is ubiquitous. Like with the recent Blackberry outage, we are reminded that these technologies are not perfect, are not […]
FOSE is the largest technology conference and exhibition targeting the U.S. federal government. In 2006 there were almost 21,000 attendees. Hundreds of exhibitors vie for the attention of the feds this week in Washington D.C.’s vast convention center. The public sector is by most measures the largest customer of geospatial systems. The U.S. federal government […]
Yes, it means something that Oracle is buying Hyperion. Hyperion is, however, integrated only with ESRI, while the other largest business intelligence (BI) vendors also integrate with others (Autodesk, Bentley, GE Energy, Google Maps, and MapInfo). Hyperion provides retail and public sector geospatial intelligence (GI) capabilities through a partnership with Australia-based Integeo, a Forge Group company. Integeo Map Intelligence […]
