Business Notes: December 30, 2002

• Announcements

The folks at IDC are making their predictions as to how vendors should weave spatial technologies into their offerings. Their suggestions: Identify and exploit "unique location-enabled solutions." Those who don't provide “Open data access and spatially enabled database management" will be left behind. Before Web services takes off "the IT industry will have to develop and implement a much more mature Web Services architecture." There are two several thousand dollar reports available, too.

RMSI announced that it has successfully carried out a pilot catastrophe risk assessment study for four Indian states, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Orissa, as part of World Bank's ongoing regional initiatives for risk transfer in Asia. The project involved a comprehensive risk assessment study of the four Indian states pertaining to the assets of housing and public infrastructure against natural catastrophes like cyclones, earthquakes, and floods. RMSI was recently listed at the 114th position in "Dataquest's Top 200" survey on IT Companies for the year 2001 - 02 in India.

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