Enterprise geographic information systems from IBM and ESRI

We combine IBM’s proven technology and extensive experience and expertise derived from working with governments at all levels with ESRI’s proven GIS solutions to help you build an end-to-end solution for managing location information to improve public services and safety.

Choose IBM because:

• We have worked with governments for more than 90 years and have more than 1,800 people worldwide dedicated to solving business challenges at all levels of government.
• In support of our commitment to helping governments learn about innovative solutions, we have established the Institute for Electronic Government and the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

Choose ESRI because:

• ESRI is the world leader in the GIS industry with:
• Offices throughout the United States.
• A business partner program with more than 2,000 developers, consultants, resellers and data providers.
• A network of more than 80 international distributors with users in more than 150 countries.
• The majority of the company’s market share is in the public sector, offering a range of solutions including land records, public works, urban and regional planning, public safety, disaster management, law enforcement and homeland security.

Does your agency deal with a wide variety of location information within your jurisdiction? Are the locations of constituents, points of service delivery, partner organizations or physical assets important to your organization? Enterprise geographic information systems from IBM and ESRI provide technology and services designed to link data sets together through common location data. Enable better services and responsiveness by leveraging GIS to pull information from various databases and query, analyze and map that data in support of the decision-making process.

Enterprise geographic information systems from IBM and ESRI:

• Offer sophisticated spatial analysis, and 2-D and 3-D visualization of enterprise information.
• Enable you to see and explore your organization’s entire data store as a single asset to reveal information patterns and gain new insight to enhance fraud detection and improve performance management.
• Support small-to-large government operations, including managing local zoning, land use and property tax assessments, and nearly all other municipal utilities and services.
• Provide the public with information on real estate ownership, unpaid taxes and utility bills, housing code violations and other data maintained by various agencies.

lberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, which maintains a vast network of weather stations that collect information on parameters such as air temperature, humidity, soil moisture and wind speed, found that it was spending an inordinate amount of time responding to ad hoc requests, accessing and relaying information to its constituency.

To solve this challenge the agency launched the AgroClimatic Information Service (ACIS), which provides Web-based near real-time and historical data that allows agricultural producers to make decisions in response to weather-related and soil moisture condition events.

Alberta Agriculture found that IBM DB2® Data Warehouse Edition and IBM WebSphere® Application Server provided superior and scalable technology for managing their growing repository of geographic information system (GIS) data. Because Alberta was already using GIS applications from IBM Business Partner ESRI, an IBM database solution was a natural choice, as it integrates well with ESRI software.

Maximize your return on investment with tools to extend your knowledge of spatial and logistical data. This solution can help you:

• Reduce data capture expenses.
• Decrease manual work costs related to mapping and data.
• Improve road and port maintenance resource utilization costs.
• Increase the tax base of a jurisdiction and improve city planning.