From governments to businesses, Office data is on the map. If you are an ArcGIS Online user, you can now turn your Excel spreadsheet data into an interactive map without ever leaving Microsoft Office. Esri’s Maps for Microsoft Office can produce maps from spreadsheets just as quickly and easily as you can create a chart. Creating interactive maps of Excel data is simple. Maps can display locations, for example...

Securus, Inc. is a mobile safety and security products and services company that is taking machine-to-machine (M2M) hardware and software solutions to a new level. They have built an M2M software platform that enables a user to track any asset, person, or pet. The convergence of more efficient hardware, improved mobile connectivity, and other sensor technology innovations are redefining the possibilities and affordability of the location tracking market. We spoke with Chris Newton, President and CEO of Securus, Inc., about the market drivers for assets, people, and pet tracking.

As the global population increases and developing economies cultivate a growing middle class, corporations and consumers alike will seek affordable and efficient access to energy. This article discusses the business challenges faced by a solar startup in planning for a national expansion strategy. Geospatial technology was instrumental in overcoming financial and technical obstacles to growth.

Placed, a start-up company in Seattle, Washing- ton, is at the intersection of web analytics and location analytics. Founded in January 2011, the company is focused on delivering a complimentary analytical service to traditional web analytics that helps marketers, ad agencies, and developers better understand how mobile apps are being used and therefore how they can be improved to achieve desired outcomes.

Location SmartBrief readers are primarily non-technical business professionals interested in leveraging location information for a number of different business objectives from marketing, to product and service develop-ment, to finance, to asset management, and customer experience. We conducted a series of poll questions over a 6-week period to get a sense for what people think relative to location intelligence.

The 2nd annual Location Intelligence for Enterprise Conference confirmed that the use of location information, technologies and solutions is indeed a competitive advantage for companies. Jones Lang LaSalle, FedEx, Walgreens, Walmart, and Thomson Reuters, to name just a few, spent 2 days discussing how location intelligence is mission-critical to...

When it comes to privacy, there are basically two ends of the spectrum: Those who are in the “sharing culture” who act and behave in a very open manner, and those who feel privacy is a “protected right” and find any intrusion to be offensive. But, privacy is more complicated than that.

The Where Conference (formerly Where 2.0) has certainly evolved since its inception eight years ago. While still very much a developer conference with a focus on the innovations in location aware applications, itís starting to feel more like a trade show and thatís a good thing for sponsors. The Esri, Google, and Nokia booths towered...

This article outlines the OGC standards that support public and private sector efforts in measuring, monitoring and managing the human impacts on our planet, and how those standards are used to collect and distribute water, oceanographic, geological, and hazardous chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear explosive information.

This interview illustrates a next-gen innovative approach to business modeling that leverages GIS and enterprise system assets for improved enterprise search and decision support.