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Business Notes: November 10, 2003• Announcements The Open GIS Consortium Inc. (OGC) recently approved two new compliance tests and a series of tools to encourage software developers to validate software products that implement OpenGIS® Specifications. A new website provides automated testing for Web Map Service 1.1.1 (WMS) and Web Feature Service 1.0 (WFS), a Geography Markup Language (GML) validation tool and links to reference implementations. Developers that successfully test for compliance with WMS and WFS specifications and want to claim or indicate compliance of their product in the marketplace must submit their results for validation, and pay a trademark licensing fee.The 2003 Biennial Mayors' Asia Pacific Environmental Summit (MAPES)is a forum for mayors and other local government officials in the region to advance protection of their urban environments and to promote sustainable development in their cities. The Summit presented awards to 28 cities that excelled in meeting their past commitments. ESRI will give GIS software and training packages, valued at $50,000, to two of the cities. Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy in the state of Delaware under Chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The company has ceased all of its business operations. The operations of the Company's wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, PowerLOC Technologies, Inc. will continue to operate as usual with funding expected to be provided by one of its senior secured creditors. The company won awards and appeared to be positioned as a big winner in homeland security. Laser-Scan announced a partnership with Computer Solutions and Finance Group plc (CSF), an IT solutions provider. MapInfo announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Business Objects a provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, to offer enterprise users a comprehensive location-based business intelligence solution. By adding location components to business intelligence software from Business Objects, the integrated solution helps organizations perform expanded analysis of customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM) information. MapInfo will be showcasing the solution at the Business Object user conference this week. • Contracts PlanGraphics, Inc. has been awarded a $2.1 million contract to assist in building an urban management information system for the Liaoning Provincial Government in northeastern China. Liaoning is the most urbanized province in China and a major center of industry. Applied Digital Solutions, Inc. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VeriChip Corporation, has received a purchase order for 400 VeriChips and 34 handheld scanners from its exclusive distributor for Russia and Switzerland. About the size of a grain of rice, VeriChip ia a subdermal (goes under your skin), radio frequency identification (RFID) microchip that can be used in a variety of security, financial, emergency identification and other applications. Ewwww. • Events Autodesk, Intergraph, Laser-Scan, and MapInfo, along with Oracle, are hosting a webcast November 18 to talk about the interoperability kits for customers looking to build and leverage multi-vendor systems. • Hires RMSI announced that Tripti Lochan has been appointed as Associate Vice President-Business Development, USA and is based at the company's Newark office. Tripti is responsible for sales and business development for the Software and GIS lines of the company's business in the North American region. If news like this is important to you, sign up for our weekly GIS Monitor Newsletter. --------- Source: Material used herein is often supplied by external sources and used as is. |
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