Looking for a go-to reference book on geospatialtechnologies that is not overly techie? This is the book for you. Believe it or not, Dr. Bob Ryerson and Dr. Stan Aronoff, two PhDs with extensive experience in GIS and remote sensing have been able to distill complex geospatial terms, applications, and technologies into lay terms for everyone to understand.

Once you know what type of location data you need, the next questions are, does it exist in my company, and if so where is it? Therein lies the beginning of the search for who uses and manages such location data and what shape it is in. If the location data does exist,

Abhi Ingle leads the mobility applications and industry consulting team for the Advanced Mobility Solutions group within AT&T. His team works with Line of Business, IT and vertical industry executives to define, deliver and deploy business solutions that help corporations or government agencies wirelessly enable their business applications. These applications cover a wide range of business functions including field service, sales force automation, public safety, logistics, fleet management, fraud management and other vertically specific business processes.

In 2003, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku declared that time travel, “…once confined to fantasy and science fiction… is now simply an engineering problem.” Today, from the standpoint of operations improvement and top-line growth, it’s an engineering problem that’s been solved.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) have become woven into the fabric of most businesses and pushed into the psyches of our organizations. In an effort to better understand and manage our businesses …

The last few months have been quite exciting, since we launched our premiere issue and website of LBx Journal this past spring. I attended a number of conferences over the summer and fall, including the ESRI User Conference (Business GIS Summit), GeoWeb, Cable Broadband GIS Summit, Location Intelligence, CTAM Summit (cable marketing conference), Enterprise 2.0 and the Web 2.0 Expo.

As indicated by this magazine, location-based information has quickly made its way into just about every industry out there. For example, marketers are using it to send special deals to consumers as they pass by their favorite stores, emergency personnel rely on it to save lives, and engineers require it to build our world’s infrastructure.