Location Intelligence

Jack Levis, is known to many readers as “the UPS guy” in the Penn State Public Broadcasting production The Geospatial Revolution. He gave the opening keynote at this year's Location Intelligence Conference in Washington, DC. He basically backed up his now-famous quip about how UPS used to be a...

Back in April Pitney Bowes Software announced via a message to customers that it would not be holding its Insights User Conference this year, but rather would use the year to revamp the organization. The event is usually held in May or June. The PB Software group includes the software and...

David Cruickshank from SAP's Co-Innovation Lab (COIL) describes in his blog the architecture of how SAP users can perform geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) analysis using both SAP's HANA in-memory database with a workflow to Esri's ArcGIS. Some of the workflow is explained as follows: SAP NS2...

Esri and the Directory of Major Malls have partnered to create the DMM Future Retail story map that media can embed or share as part of ongoing retail and local business coverage. Built on exclusive data from the DMM, this map shows 25 lifestyle/specialty and urban mixed-used projects that are...

Bryan Ware, writing at CTO Vision, details how the Boston Marathon bombing were a “big data” event. He's the CTO of Haystax Technology, a new analytics company focused on the defense and intelligence sector.  And offers this important discalimer: Disclaimer: These observations are made from...

The Army has opportunities including set asides for small businesses. The Installation Geospatial Information Services program will provide basic installation, energy and environment geospatial capability across the Army. Awardees will develop standard data and functionality, increase...

Microsoft posted information about a new thematic mapping app that will be embedded with Excel. The new functionality will allow users to geocode data as well as view geospatial and temporal data by creating thematic and heat maps. Microsoft noted that: GeoFlow originated in Microsoft Research,...

This from DigitalGlobe's blog: We are pleased to officially announce that we have acquired crowdsourced intelligence pioneer Tomnod (www.tomnod.com.) While the transaction is not material to our financials, it does support our vision of being the indispensable source of information about our...

Zacks reports a bit of reorganzation at Pitney Bowes LI and GIS Division: A few days back Pitney Bowes appointed James Brayshaw as the Director and GM of its Location Intelligence (LI) and GIS division. James, a chartered civil engineer with 30 years of rich experience, had been handling...

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Google is reducing the number of core product groups from five to seven. As part of this move, the mapping and commerce unit, led by Jeff Huber, will be split with the mapping unit moved under the search group, led by Alan Eustace. A Google spokesperson...