This page provides a listing of webinars produced by Directions Media and sponsored by a variety of companies. The information in each webinar is designed to be educational and provides a more detailed understanding of solutions offered by these companies. If you are interested in becoming a part of the Directions Media Webinar Series and would like to sponsor a webinar, more information can be found on the Webinar home page of the Directions Media website.
Business Case: Meeting Community Needs by Leveraging Enterprise GIS Solutions
Directions Media Webinar Series, NAVTEQ
Learn how multiple departments in cities and counties are providing more robust services with enterprise GIS - while achieving a reduction in expenditures.
NAVTEQ map data powers the ESRI solutions that enhance infrastructure supervision, provide greater performance management and generate efficiencies in work processes, including U. S. Census 2010 preparations.
Using Location-based Intelligence to Achieve Maximum ROI for Facility Management
Directions Media Webinar Series, Johnston McLamb
Learn how the U.S. Postal Service is aiming to add $150 million to the bottom line. This webinar presents a case study that demonstrates how the U.S. Postal Service has developed a methodology to enable it to: minimize surplus space and maximize cost savings; minimize lease and ownership expense by optimizing facilities; effectively manage facility optimization by reducing analysis and decision time; and optimize its inventory of facilities through best practices implemented by Johnston McLamb.
This methodology can also be used for applications in retail, distribution and real estate.
SPOTMaps for Your Apps - How to easily access high-resolution imagery data when budgets are tight
Directions Media Webinar Series, SPOT Image Corporation
Learn how SPOTMaps can save your organization both time and money with instant access to high-resolution off-the-shelf imagery.
Join SPOT Image Corporation, one of the leading providers of satellite imagery, and two of their partners, Google and Spatial Energy for an informative, case study-based webinar about SPOTMaps - the 2.5 meter high-resolution global basemap.
Discover:
* Multiple ways SPOTMaps can save your organization time and money
* How organizations like yours are using SPOTMaps today
* How SPOTMaps can be used in Google Enterprise applications
* Available formats for SPOTMaps
* How to receive FREE Imagery from SPOT Image Corporation
Priming the Pump: Oracle Spatial - Learn how Oracle Spatial can leverage your existing investments
Directions Media Webinar Series, Oracle
Practically every organization has a wealth of geospatial or location-related information. Users in many industries are starting to realize the potential business value of analyzing location data together with other information in their enterprise databases and visualizing results on basemaps from NAVTEQ, Google and other sources.
The good news is that this doesn't have to be daunting or costly - in fact enterprise databases such as Oracle make it easier than most people might imagine to get started. By leveraging location, organizations can find new ways to cut costs, unearth revenue opportunities, improve business processes and sharpen their company's competitive edge. Oracle offers users an impressive array of location data management, query capabilities and development tools that can be leveraged without additional software cost.
This webinar highlights how:
* Oracle Database users have an impressive array of location data management and query capabilities and development tools that can be leveraged without additional software cost
* Rapid prototyping and development tools for geospatial applications can be used by technically oriented business users and non-programmers, as well as IT professionals
* IT organizations can use their existing skills and infrastructure to integrate spatial and location technology into everyday business processes
The Power of Google Maps API Premier: Advanced Integration Use Cases
Directions Media Webinar Series, Google/Korem
Google Maps API Premier opens up the power of Google to leverage your existing spatial investments. Google Maps can be used with applications that already reside on your corporate network to empower your team to access and visualize important information across the Internet.
The success of such applications is often linked to the quality of their implementation. KOREM, a Google Maps partner, has extensive experience in building high-level applications using these technologies and will share their expertise and best practices and real world examples.
Our case study will feature Brian Cutler, program director at SPOT Image Corporation. Cutler was the business leader for SPOT's portal project using Google Maps, jointly developed with KOREM, and he will share his results, insights and lessons learned.
A Data Warehouse Appliance-Running Your Location Intelligence Analyses 100x Faster
Directions Media Webinar Series, Netezza
From retail to financial services to telecommunication and government, location information plays a key role in decisions that can make or break an organization's success. But many of the spatial operations used in location intelligence applications are highly compute-intensive, requiring considerable additional processing capacity in the data warehouse. View this informative webinar on data warehouse appliances sponsored by Netezza.
Who Should View...
CIOs, IT executives, developers, users and managers, as well systems integrators and VARs who are all part of the business intelligence and geospatial ecosystem across all industries for both the private and public sectors.
Managing your infrastructure in a down economy-Embracing technology to reduce costs & minimize risk
Directions Media Webinar Series, VUEWorks
Join VUEWorks, developers of Web-enabled, GIS-integrated work order and asset management solutions, Northstar Community Service District and Directions Media for a case study presentation. Small but booming, Northstar has exceeded expectations for service and transparent accountability by deploying GIS-enabled Enterprise Asset Management. Learn more about how municipalities can avoid putting put their infrastructure at risk, even in challenging economic times.
Virtual Earth at Work in State and Local Government
Directions Media Webinar Series, Microsoft
The Virtual Earth platform is a critical component of the Microsoft geospatial story, enabling public sector agencies to serve up data in a manner that allows users to better visualize it, understand it, and ultimately to act on it in a more timely fashion, while simultaneously cutting costs and delivering clear value to their constituencies.
Leveraging Location in a Lull: 4 Simple Lessons to Grow Your Business (registration required)
Directions Media Webinar Series, DMTI Spatial
Join DMTI Spatial, market research firm IDC and Directions Media in this webinar that discusses 4 simple lessons and 4 case studies about organizations that have grown their businesses and delivered results using location technology...even in these challenging economic times. You will also here from Peter Silk, a senior VP with Lombard Canada, one of the oldest and largest property and casualty insurance companies in Canada, about mitigating risk. This webinar will help you understand what applications can be developed and you'll get a new perspective on using geospatial information to help your business or organization become a more "location intelligent" enterprise.
Exploiting Geospatial Information for the Intelligence Community: The XML Factor (registration req.)
Directions Media Webinar Series, Mark Logic
The boundaries of geospatial analysis are quickly expanding, increasing both the potential scope of GEOINT and its overlap with other disciplines and technologies. One of the primary drivers of this expansion is XML, the universal language for data. XML not only makes it easier for geospatial data to be converted and exchanged among systems, but also permits geospatial enhancement and exploitation of what would once have been considered non-geospatial, unstructured data and textual content.
Job and Education Webinar #1
Directions Media Webinar Series, Directions Media
Directions Media recently hosted an online job and education webinar to bring together employers, job seekers, students and school administrators in a 1-hour session. The session presented a variety of statistics on the current job and economic climate, job resources, educational opportunities, and what you need to do to prepare for seeking your next job.
Field Service Management - Where Logistics Meets Location Technology
Directions Media Webinar Series, Pitney Bowes MapInfo / ClickSoftware
Gas prices driving up your costs? Looking for a way to optimize your scarce workforce yet still deliver high quality service? Learn how combining logistics planning with location technology can help you answer questions. This webinar with Pitney Bowes MapInfo and their partner ClickSoftware addresses these questions both from the user and potential partner perspective.
A Deep Dive into Enterprise Location Intelligence with IDV Visual Fusion and Microsoft Sharepoint
Directions Media Webinar Series, IDV Solutions
This webinar focuses on how to leverage your existing GIS solutions and data investments you have in ESRI, MapInfo, Intergraph, etc., by using IDV's Visual Fusion and Microsoft's SharePoint as a platform for integrating, sharing and collaborating around your GIS and enterprise data.
Geo-enable Your Content to Generate New Revenue, Drive Premium Services and Enhance Customer Loyalty
Directions Media Webinar Series, MetaCarta
This webinar features usage examples from ESRI, USDA, National Geographic and Reuters including an in-depth case study by YourStreet.com. This will be followed by a collaborative discussion and an interactive Q/A session with our panel of experts.This is a chance to look at opportunities to repurpose your organization's data and consider what more you might be doing to generate revenue from your investment.
