DynaGIS

Retailers, manufacturers, governments, militaries, and event managers may have different activities, but they face the same basic challenge. Their challenge is to efficiently coordinate the efforts of many different parties in order to sell a good, produce a good, provide a service, conduct a military operation, or organize a successful event. In the past, this coordination has mainly been approached by mixing together a myriad of paper documents and data files created from all sorts of applications. The end result can easily get confusing as various people in an organization rely on different data files that may or may not be updated for all subsequent users.

A DynaGIS is the representation of mission critical information on one geographic map. The user essentially is given a control panel where they are able to zoom in and zoom out of particular points that contain location specific information. GIStance has developed a DynaGIS called “GEMs” specifically for the event organizer “The Plazs”. Please also refer to the “J-COM Inc.” case study for a more in depth look at how a map may be used as a control panel.

As the old saying goes “a picture is worth one thousands words”. Using a fully supported GIStance DynaGIS, a company or organization could stop chasing information and start using it.

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The GEMs System

The object of this system is for users to be able to quickly get an overview of their event anywhere from conception to implementation to conclusion. The system will show the latest status, figures, physical layout designs, participants, suppliers, and any other important variables that are all linked to a detailed digital map of the event site. The user can choose to view all of the layers at once, or just select specific layers. The GEM system is flexibility and simplicity at your fingertips.

Your Control Panel

GEMs offers the possibility for any event manager to conveniently link into other applications. The result is your own tailored control panel that allows you to access the information you need at any given moment without browsing various applications. Links from the GEM system may include anything from interactive web designs, database files, excel sheets, text files, graphics software, or basically any desired application. Your control panel can also be customized to include any languages that may be required.

The idea is to let the user avoid searching through the wrong data and let the user spend more time analyzing and utilizing the right data. The time that GEMs can save a user becomes very significant as the number of days of any event increases. There is no expertise required once the system is in place, only an open mind and electricity.

GEMs Benefits

The benefits of the GEM system are the following:

• Why spend time filling in the big picture when you can start with it? GEMs can save event organizers significant amounts of time by always displaying the total process rather than a series of smaller components.

• As the event grows and changes year over year easy comparisons can be made using the GEM system.

• GEMs requires no significant I.T. skills and may link virtually to any other application for enhancement.

• The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” is based on an ancient Chinese proverb. In our complicated world, these words have never been truer.

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