miércoles, 30 de noviembre de 2011

Explaining Socium, a Cloud Based GIS Data Validation Service | GIS Lounge

Explaining Socium, a Cloud Based GIS Data Validation Service | GIS Lounge
bbie Beckford, Customer Relations and Marketing Manager at Socium, shares insight about the new launch and what the benefits of this cloud based online data validation and management services are.

Having confidence in spatial data is vital to organisations that rely on it for making business critical decisions and with increased demand for sharing data, the level of quality is becoming ever more important. However, whilst the need to ensure data quality is increasing, the tough economic times we are all facing is pushing organisations budgets down and cost cutting is becoming an all too familiar item on the agenda.

These are therefore interesting times in our industry and it is no longer just the larger organisations such as National Mapping and Charting Agencies or Central Government organisations, which have to meet high level data quality targets but instead it is a challenge for everyone. There is no doubt that there are already good quality tools in the market place to address data quality, but with a high cost of ownership and technical expertise required to use the software, data quality up until now has certainly not been open and available for everyone.

This is why we have launched Socium. A Software as a Service company that is revolutionising the industry by opening up the world of data quality to everyone by offering new, online data validation and management services in the cloud.

We wanted to create something innovative in the industry that allowed users to maintain and protect the quality of their data without all the costly set up, purchasing and maintenance issues involved with traditional vendor solutions. We also needed to be able to offer this to all users irrespective of budget or technical ability.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of 1Spatial Holdings Plc. the team at Socium have a wealth of experience in working with organisations that experience issues of validating, maintaining and protecting the quality of their spatial data. The proven technology powering Socium’s services is in fact 1Spatial’s rules engine, which is utilised by numerous National Mapping Agencies worldwide, most notably being Ordnance Survey Great Britain. What we at Socium are doing, is putting this proven technology into the cloud and making it available to everyone in an easy to use environment, regardless of geographical location, technical knowledge, infrastructure or budget.

The first service to be launched is called the Online Validation Service.

What is the Online Validation Service? It is an easy to use, zero cost of ownership,.....

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