Consuming the geospatial substrate: the next generation of applications, analytics and tools

As more and more organizations implement and embrace the geo-enabled enterprise, it has become possible not just to incorporate maps and geospatial analysis into applications, but to create a new class of solutions that implicitly and inherently rely on the geospatial substrate that is part of today's information systems. Critical applications -- business Intelligence and analytics, operational systems, web and cloud services are more targeted, more context-appropriate, and incorporate more relevant information because the data infrastructure increasingly understands and delivers location, sensor and tagged content from devices through standard interfaces. This presentation will describe how the base components of the IT infrastructure comprise a complete geospatial substrate and how applications, BI, analytic technologies and tools incorporate these capabilities and the new classes of applications that will soon be possible through the synthesis of 3D modeling, augmented reality, and operational data.