Question: Why should I care about Enterprise Web GIS?

Answer: Because it's the most effective way for you to use, manage and distribute your geographic data.

Information is often difficult to understand especially if it comes from many sources and represents many different facets of our world. Geography or location is the one feature common to most information. Information is stored in a GIS by reference to its location. GIS can easily combine information and show where it is in the real world. What better way to access, integrate, visualise, analyse and share information than through a GIS? What better way to use the power of GIS than on the Web where it's easy to access and simple to use.

The development of GIS has been highly influenced by the progress of Information Technology (IT). Web computing is the single most important current IT trend, with Mobile computing following on fast, and GIS has been at the forefront of adopting both technologies to great benefit. This section of our web site is designed to introduce you to the whole concept of Enterprise Web GIS and is broken down into the following sub-sections:

A word on why 'Enterprise', why 'Web' and why 'GIS'

Geographic Information Systems(GIS) are powerful applications that manage and manipulate spatially referenced data. 'Web' GIS means access to GIS applications/functionality and data via a Web Browser. The term Internet GIS is occasionally used to describe access to Web GIS applications over the Internet, rather than on an Intranet (or through an organisations LAN, WAN). The term 'Enterprise' Web GIS, attempts to encompass two main concepts;

• The potential importance of Web GIS to the enterprise, by allowing better access to its information
• The fact Web GIS can be truly an 'enterprise' solution and resource, bringing benefit to the whole enterprise

At ESBI Computing we provide a range of Enterprise Web GIS solutions to allow you to view and edit your GIS data anywhere in your organisation. We have developed our own off-the-shelf Enterprise Web GIS solution called GeoXplorer™. We are currently developing a wide range of industry and application specific components to make GeoXplorer™ relevant and beneficial to your requirements.

Should you have any further queries on the application of Enterprise Web GIS technology to your business, please do not hesitate to contact us.