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Basic Overview
- A single, intuitive user interface to GIS Data across the enterprise
- Stored Favorites by user or group
- Ability to quickly build maps and associated reports
- User friendly views of data via spreadsheet and Microsoft Explorer-like tree
- Data summary for an given Area of Interest (AOI)
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Data Integration Capabilities
- Map-based web-application to access a variety of spatial, structured and unstructured data sources.
- Enables a global view of data across departments for a given area of interest
- Extracts information from multiple disparate data sources into a single view
- Easy connectivity to complex data stores
- Integrates data from decentralized servers and systems, providing a seamless interface to different database systems/platforms
- Robust metadata backbone provides rapid integration of data sources
- Supports links to other data, systems, and EAI toolkits (e.g. WebFOCUS)
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Document Management Features
- Users can link documents to map features and map features to documents
- “Spatially enable” documents by linking them to map features or areas
- Leverages full functionality of document management tools such as document check in/out, version control, and publish/subscribe
- Easily links to multiple document management systems or, optionally, documents stored on traditional file servers
- Links map features to a variety of document types including Word, Excel, TIFF, PDF, CAD files, and images (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG)
- Modules for connecting to Documentum, FileNet, SharePoint, LaserFiche, Oracle, and SQL Server
- Enables group collaboration on document production and management, associated metadata, and reference locations
- Attach documents to any feature on any layer in the map
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Custom User Preferences and Favorites
- Supplies users a means of customizing their personal environment
- Preferences or favorites may be established at a group or user level
- Enables saved user selections or favorites stored in four ways:
- Queries – allows search criteria to be saved under user-specified name
- Results list – allows the results from a search to be saved under user-specified name
- Areas of Interest (AOI) - allows a geographic area to be saved under user-specified name
- Sessions – allows user to save entire application session including layers turned on/off, map area of interest, and other settings.
- Ability to create multiple module configurations within a single company GeoRoom server environment
- Ability to filter layers by group, user or server environment
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Configurable Searches / Queries
- Enables commonly used queries to be pre-set as Canned Searches
- Provides ability to create and modify advanced searches
- Perform spatial or map-based searches from lists (e.g. county name, city or ETJ, etc.)
- Supports addition of customized reports
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Reporting Features
- Reports selected data in familiar Excel and/or Word format
- Produces quick reports optionally combined with maps
- Leverages legacy systems and back-end systems via existing adaptors and/or other tools such as WebFOCUS
- Integrated with GeoRoom search functions including canned, advanced, spatial, and text searches
- Supports additional custom reporting via administrator tools
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Ability to Create Map Features
- Grants users a means to create points, lines or polygons in the map area
- Users can create notes and tie them to the map features
- Establishes new reference locations for documents and data
- User can create a point, polygon or line
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Custom ArcGIS Mapping Interface
- Leverages ESRI’s leading web GIS software, ArcGIS 9.4
- Creates an easy-to-use, yet appealing interface for ArGIS
- Integrates familiar MS Office Components such as spreadsheet and Explorer-like tree view for managing layers and files
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Address Locator (Geocoding)
- Allows users to search and go directly to a specific area or address
- Search by address / city / zip code
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Technology Features
- Built on industry-leading off-the-shelf technologies
- Underlying industry-leading ESRI GIS architecture
- Can leverage existing GIS licenses and infrastructure
- Works spatially with ArcSDE, Shapefiles
- Built on Microsoft ASP.Net 3.5 with C#
- MSDE, SQL Server or Oracle can be used to as GeoRoom database
- Can leverage Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Spatial for high performance
- Provides secure access to data sources
- Highly configurable and scalable architecture
- Insulates users from changes in technologies
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Support & Maintenance Features
- Logging of usage for maintenance and support
- Automated error reporting to GeoRoom Support engineers
- Real-time availability and error monitoring built into the software
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Metadata, Data Connector and Module Architecture
- Metadata XML files define application connections; Enables rapid integration of new or modified data sources throughout the enterprise
- Application configuration is driven by XML configuration files, speeding development
- Ease of maintenance by modifying XML connectors and Metadata XML files, not code
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