WHAT IS THE WEBINAR SERIES?

The Directions Magazine Webinars are designed to be educational and informative. This page provides a listing of webinars produced by Directions Magazine 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 Magazine Webinar Series and would like to sponsor a webinar, more information can be found on the Webinar home page of the Directions Media website.

Upcoming Webinars

Webinar: Learn How to Achieve Workforce Optimization With Higher Customer Satisfaction and Lower Costs Using Oracle with NAVTEQ Maps

Now is the time to invest in mobile workforce scheduling and optimization solutions! With the ever-increasing cost of deploying a mobile workforce and industry analysts predicting gas prices to exceed $4/gallon this year, more companies than ever are seeking mobile workforce optimization solutions.

Mobile workforce and field-based service delivery organizations can save time and money using workforce scheduling solutions from Oracle. Nokia Location & Commerce is providing NAVTEQ maps to enable accurate routing in the solution.

The Oracle Real-time Scheduler is a stand-alone modular workforce optimization and scheduling solution that can be integrated into Oracle applications to ensure that field personnel are at the right place and time, with the right tools and skills. The Oracle solution continuously optimizes up to the point of dispatch and arrival, and includes street-level routing with NAVTEQ maps.

Attend this webinar to learn about:

• Real-time scheduling
  • Managing and responding to any planned or unplanned events
  • Re-optimizing modified schedules quickly and automatically
• Innovative, integrated map data
  • Leveraging accurate routes optimized to reduce cost and time
  • Offering more accurate ETAs updated in real-time using GPS integration
• Flexible, cost-optimized appointment booking
  • Providing customers a high level of service via call center or Web
  • Gaining confidence from customers by meeting service level agreements

Speakers include:

• Michael Paulette, Workforce Scheduling Solutions, Oracle
• Dan Abugov, Business Development Manager and Consultant, Nokia Location & Commerce
• Steve Lytle, Sr. Account Executive, Nokia Location & Commerce

Who should attend:

Workforce managers and geospatial professionals in the utilities and telecom industries, or any field service organization

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Webinar: Geospatial Content Management: How to Improve Your Data Quality to Optimize Business Decisions

Case studies from the City of Boston, Ordnance Survey and others

Is your geospatial data outdated or obsolete? Is your data unreliable or inaccurate? Is poor data quality impacting your business? If you answered yes to any of these questions, your data needs to be streamlined, which requires cleaning, updating and improving. Governments as well as energy and mining companies that have redundant or poor quality data are realizing this could be stifling their competitiveness.

Join us to learn about how Infotech has helped government organizations like the City of Boston and the Ordnance Survey, as well as private companies, deal with their data challenges.

Today there is an increasing desire for “high quality” data to make more effective business decisions. In this webinar, the Infotech team will discuss some of the projects in which we are involved to improve data, enhance quality assurance processes, and manage data effectively – with clients in mining, energy and government.  

Our panel of experts includes:

• James Maskell, Geospatial Engineering Manager
• Drew Meren, Geospatial Engineering Specialist
• Dr. Hanu Chodagam, Content Engineering, Geospatial Subject Matter Expert

Together, they will show how we have and are continuing to help other government, mining, and energy companies improve their data efficiently by providing the best practices for data quality and managing critical business information.

Who should attend:

CEO, directors, managers, decision makers and technical personnel within the mining, energy and government industries

                      

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Webinar: Geospatial Technologies in the Real Estate Industry - Property Acquisition

The webinars will cover the application of geospatial software and data bases to all phases of the real estate investment cycle -- including not only how geospatial technologies have been successfully used by others but also recommendations for developing products and services for as yet unfulfilled GIS demand within the industry.

Among the real estate functions to be examined: residential and commercial brokerage, appraisal/assessment, highest and best use/due diligence, private and public sector real estate development, mortgage underwriting and re-underwriting, retail site selection and network optimization, corporate real estate, investment management for pension funds and other institutional investors, Wall Street applications (e.g., with REITs), and more.

3. PROPERTY ACQUISITION

• Listings of properties that are for sale or lease
• Property valuation a.k.a. appraisal
• Hazard abatements
• Permits and entitlements
• Mortgage underwriting
• Other transaction support activities

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Webinar: Situational Analysis at OnStar with Oracle Spatial

OnStar is the largest telematics solution provider on the globe, with 6 million subscribers in North America and abroad. OnStar uses situational awareness and real-time analysis to deliver fast, accurate emergency services to its customers. At the core of this solution is an Oracle Spatial-based analytical server that supports Google Earth visualization and NAVTEQ data. With this system, OnStar gains better understanding of customer use and behavior and better insight during emergency situations. In hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters, OnStar has developed early warning capabilities for use in near real-time. It can then manage call center resources based on anticipated call volumes and ultimately develop more effective new processes and services.

Learn from OnStar how the company uses Oracle Spatial to deliver insight, performance and scalability.
 
Key learning points include:

• How OnStar’s Oracle Spatial analytical server supports its real-time call center Advisor application in an environment using Google Earth visualization and NAVTEQ data
• How spatial analysis allows OnStar to obtain better insight into disaster situations, develop early warning capabilities, and improve call center coverage
• How Oracle Database 11g (with Oracle Spatial, Real Application Clusters, Partitioning)  provides scalability and performance required to process and query OnStar’s large amounts of transactional data

Speakers include:

• Jeff Joyner, Emergency Strategy and Outreach, GM OnStar and Injury Research Fellow, University of Michigan Program for Injury Research and Education
• James Steiner, Vice President, Product Management, Oracle Server Technologies

Who should attend:

This webinar is appropriate for CIOs, business and technical managers and analysts involved in the design and management of enterprise systems where spatial analysis can add insight and value to business processes.

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Webinar: The Power of GIS and Remote Sensing…Together in a Single Solution

This webinar is targeted to geospatial data analysts who incorporate remotely sensed imagery into their workflows. Having separate GIS, photogrammetry and remote sensing workflows only partially addresses the need for creating, maintaining, sharing and using geospatial data.

Intergraph and ERDAS have combined GeoMedia and ERDAS IMAGINE to deliver a comprehensive suite of GIS analysis and data management capabilities, coupled with image processing. The combination delivers what geospatial professionals have wanted for a long time: seamless integration of vector and raster data. This stronger, more streamlined geospatial workflow combines the strengths of GeoMedia’s extensive querying capabilities with ERDAS IMAGINE’S library of image manipulation features to help the analyst with true spatial insights.

Work began on this combined offering when ERDAS recently became an Intergraph brand. Users can leverage both products in unison to manage the demand for more data, more analysis and more effective results. 

During this webinar, we will show the benefits of this cohesive image processing and GIS product pairing, focusing on workflows that can process large volumes of imagery, precision terrain data and vector-based geospatial information to update GIS and CAD resources.

Speakers from Intergraph include:

• Mladen Stojic, Vice President, Geospatial
• Vince Smith, GIS Product Line Executive
• Steve du Plessis, Remote Sensing Product Line Executive

Who should attend:

This webinar is targeted to those who need to use GIS and image processing in their workflow, or anyone who manages or supports professionals who need to do so.

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Webinar: Geospatial Technologies in the Real Estate Industry - Ongoing Property Management

The webinars will cover the application of geospatial software and data bases to all phases of the real estate investment cycle -- including not only how geospatial technologies have been successfully used by others but also recommendations for developing products and services for as yet unfulfilled GIS demand within the industry.

Among the real estate functions to be examined: residential and commercial brokerage, appraisal/assessment, highest and best use/due diligence, private and public sector real estate development, mortgage underwriting and re-underwriting, retail site selection and network optimization, corporate real estate, investment management for pension funds and other institutional investors, Wall Street applications (e.g., with REITs), and more.

4. ONGOING PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

• Peer group comparisons
• Forecasting market changes
• Property tax appeals
• Opportunities for lease-saleback, consolidation, etc.
• Disposition

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Webinar: Driving Efficiencies in Government at the City of Lewisville, Texas with Google Maps and Google Apps

The city of Lewisville, Texas – population 100,000 – will be featured on this webinar that addresses how Technology Projects Manager Jason Kirkland is deploying cutting edge technologies such as Google Apps and Google Maps to come up with new workflows that allow city police and fire, council and other departments to collaborate more efficiently. Jason was named a Google “Government Transformer” for these efforts.

Here are some of the topics Jason will address:

• Anyone who works for public organizations, such as local, provincial or state government and is interested in providing data to the public
• Anyone who is involved in public safety, planning, etc., in an enterprise environment

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Webinar: Jobs in Geospatial Intelligence and the GEOINT Tradecraft

More information coming soon!

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