The South Central Arc User Group's annual conference for ESRI ArcGIS users is coming up in Fort Worth, Texas on March 30. 2010.

R7 Solutions will be providing demonstrations of GeoRoom, our application and integration framework for ArcGIS.

We will also be announcing our new Mapping-as-a-Service offering during the conference.

We are also happy to announce that R7 Solutions will be raffling an HD digital video camera for event participants!

This is totally gratuitous - we know - but that's what makes conference fun, right? Be sure to stop by and drop off a business card for a chance to win.

We had a great time talking to GIS professionals, state legislators, public sector executives and others at Oklahoma GIS Day at the State Capitol yesterday. This is the 16th annual GIS Day and we had a prime spot in the Capitol rotunda.

Thanks to Shellie Willoughby of the Office of Geographic Information of the Oklahoma Conservation Commission for organizing the event and making it friendly and effective for educating the public about the importance and power of mapping technologies in the public sector.

R7 Solutions will be attending the 16th annual GIS Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol building on Wednesday March 10, 2010.

We will have a booth on the 2nd floor of the Capitol and will join over 40 government agencies showcasing the latest and greatest in GIS technology serving the State of Oklahoma.

Governor Brad Henry of Oklahoma has proclaimed March 10 as GIS Day in the State of Oklahoma. The event is sponsored by the Oklahoma Geographic Information Council.

The event is free and open to the public from 9 AM until 2 PM, Wednesday. Please drop by booth 21 on the 2nd floor to say hello and see our latest GeoRoom and Mapping-as-a-Service offerings.

We are excited to announce that we are in the process of moving all active clients to our new Time and Project Management System. If we haven't contacted you yet to provide your log-in credentials, we will soon.

The TPMS allows our clients to log in and review their projects and the status of tasks, make direct task assignments for a project and review work committed to the project.

The entire system is web-based and ties directly into our timekeeping and bookkeeping system, so what you see is exactly what we are working on and what you will be billed. You can't get much simpler.

We spend a lot of time organizing projects, determing dependencies and carefully creating the steps required to complete software engineering projects and deliver quality solutions. It is nice to be able to share this work, in real-time, with our clients.

For more information or to start your project with R7 Solutions, please contact us.

We've decided to provide a more immediate and accessible forum for sharing news and announcements about our products and services, articles on best practices for BPM, GIS integration and document management, and general enterprise software resources.

We'll continue to publish press releases in the Press Center and we will also be publishing interesting client commentary and clippings in our Buzz section.

For those interested in GIS in particular, we think this is a great time to launch this blog: 2010 is an exciting time for all forms of location-based services, geospatial apps, web mapping and GIS.

There has been an explosion of interest and popularity, technological development and accessibility over the last 3 years - even more than we would have anticipated, and we're eternal optimists about geospatial, since we think it is the best thing since sliced bread!

There has been an explosion of interest and popularity, technological development and accessibility over the last 3 years - even more than we would have anticipated, and we're eternal optimists about geospatial, since we think it is the best thing since sliced bread!

This is a great time to be developing, integrating and supporting geographic information systems of all kinds, and our business is right in the middle of an exciting cross-roads in information technology.

As long-time specialists in the development and hosting of sophisticated web-based GIS applications, particularly those that integrate with valuable public and private data sources, we have been watching these changes from the middle of the action.

Hang around as we explore the latest and greatest trends in both consumer and enterprise mapping; desktop, server and web-based applications; and the new ocean of spatial data flooding our databases and subscription services.

BPM, ECM and business intelligence are doing pretty well, but this is a great time to be mapping!