GEOINTELIS - Smart Web Mapping for Land, Energy and Assets

When we set out to design a successor to our highly successful enterprise product, GeoRoom, we asked ourselves, what are the most important purchasing factors when a mid-market company needs location-based workflow and automation?

1. Ease of Purchase
2. Ease of Use
3. Access to Appropriate Data
4. Easy Distribution to the End User
5. No License Fees or License Management
6. No Additional IT Burden
7. No Data Transformation & Loading Overhead
8. Low Price

The answers we came up with seem obvious, but all too many GIS consultants and even savvy buyers stumble when it comes to solving these basic problems. So, we built answers to these major requirements right into the software:

1. Ease of Purchase

GeoIntelis is purchased as a monthly subscription on a per user / per package basis. There are no servers or licenses to buy, no data to buy and load, and no complex maintenance agreements. You can engage whatever purchasing process you require, but when it comes time to buy, and price and terms are straightforward, the guarantees are built-in, and delivery of the product is immediate and to the browser.

2. Ease of Use

This is a big one. Every mapping application has a learning curve. But we've done our best to reduce the number of buttons to a bare minimum, to anticipate the actual end-use for the system, and to bake flexibility and fault-tolerance into the cake. When you double-click, GeoIntelis just works. Your default data sets load when you log in. Adding notes is easy, turning aerials and data points on and off is one click, and uploading documents is a snap. GeoIntelis is designed to be easier to use than Microsoft Word.

3. Access to Appropriate Data

This is a big one. One of the greatest barriers to the design and building of traditional GIS solutions is finding, buying, transforming, loading and then keeping up-to-date your crucial data sets. For our basic usage areas - real estate parcels, onshore and offshore wells, pipeline locations - GeoIntelis data packages do this out of the box and highly cost-effectively. If you find a better, cheaper solution to the data problem, let us know and we'll just buy it and let you subscribe to it.

4. Easy Distribution to the End User

This problem is the largest barrier to the value and ultimate viability of more GIS projects than any other problem. Rolling specialized client software out to the user desktop, connecting to the right LAN or WAN server, maintaining connectivity and security, managing authentication and encryption, migrating from PC to PC, and turning users on and off in the system, are huge burdens. GeoIntelis handles all of this for you. As a web-based application, this solution is delivered via an encrypted web connection over any broadband connection to any Windows PC with Internet Explorer. User management is handled centrally. Lose a password? No problem. Need some extra help finding a feature? Drop us an e-mail. Need a data layer loaded? Just give us a call.

5. No License Fees or License Management

This may not be the first concern you have when go out to look for a location-aware workflow system, but you don't have to get very far into the process to realize it can be a major stumbling block. Both substantial up-front costs and ongoing maintenance can add up, even for large organizations. We develop, own and license GeoIntelis outright, so for our subscribers, there are no additional licensing costs, maintenance fees or upkeep to pay for. Your subscription covers everything.

6. No Additional IT Burden

This speaks for itself. Since GeoIntelis is web-based, delivered on-demand to the web browser, there is no additional burden on your IT department. For operational and research departments trying to find an economical solution that doesn't need to pass through multiple approval steps, GeoIntelis can solve the problem. Don't have an IT department or IT support? GeoIntelis is one o f the few viable GIS and project management solutions available that can be easily used without IT support.

7. No Data Transformation & Loading Burden

This hurdle is one of the worst. Many projects get killed mid-plan because of the cost, difficulty, budget overruns and limitations of data transformation and loading tasks. We make this one easy: When you buy a one year subscription to GeoIntelis, we load the data for you. We maintain expertise in the industry's top tools and we do this all day long. We'll load the data. We can't walk your assets with a Trimble backpack, but otherwise, we'll do the work. Could it be easier?

8. Low Price

This is a central question. We all like to say that there's no budget limit on success and that GIS workflow pays for itself. And it does. But we all still have to live within a budget and deliver value. And that's really what it comes down to: Value. GeoIntelis delivers greater value than its competitors because the cost to buy, load with data, configure, deploy, maintain and update are often an order of magnitude (as in 10 times!) lower for GeoIntelis than for competing solutions. For the mid-market company that needs location-aware workflow, analysis, research and business intelligence, but is teetering on the edge between budgetary constraints, value questions, adoption concerns, time constraints and viability, GeoIntellis' unique offering makes the decision easy. Try it out. You won't be disappointed.