migration of gis to support new technology

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Nth Dimension Syste ms

What do you expect to see out of GIS in the next year? Three?

Five?

What is your GIS department’s primary mission?

What does your GIS department currently do?

Are your constituents geospatial needs being fulfilled?

Why? Why Not?




TCO reduction

Reduce cost of ownership of IT systems through simplification of

management and ease of use for end-users

Increase productivity of end-users through simpler systems

Increase productivity of developers and administrators with

simpler processes and workflows




Work force reductions

Make work easier for each user

Increase the efficiency of the user

Increase the workload on each user

Reduce the overall number of workers while maintaining overalloutput

Increase capabilities to gain advantage in terms of customerperceived value




Increasing demands

Get more from each dollar expended

Reduce staffing demands

Reduce IT spending

Perform more (added value to customer)




Centralized Information

Reduce overall reliance on complex hardware systems

Reduce the number of hardware systems

Centralize data storage

Centralize administration

Centralize software applications




Service Oriented Architectures

Provide application capabilities in terms of service providers

and consumers

Reduce applications to loosely-coupled sets of services that

interoperate at the highest practical level

Reuse services across many applications

Outsource services to providers (domain experts)




Open Standards

Accept, promote and utilize open standards wherever possible

Avoid stove pipe applications

Avoid redundant expenses




Appliances

Replace multi-functional servers with purpose-

built appliances

Becoming very common

Firewalls

Anti-virus

NAS / SAN




What it is

Roles / responsibilities

Providing Services

Training opportunities




What do you want to make of your GIS investments?

Can cost-sharing be pursued?

Is a regional GIS attractive?

How important will cross-organizational operations be?

How can you make your “customers” happier?




Who are the players?

Who is currently responsible for what?

Who isn’t involved that should be?

Who wants to be involved but shouldn’t be?

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