The confluence of GIS and Cloud
Data.
This simple answer may seem unclear on the initial state given that data powers a lot of technological domain. So one would quickly ask How is data the confluence?
Well, allow me to introduce you to the insight you must have on this subject matter.
As we all know, data has a various influence on everything in life. It may be subtle, you may not be paying attention to it but that is essentially what is driving all the changes and transformations you have been witnessing all the while.
Let's bring it home. Home to the family, you are married and your partner hates A, B and C. You don't know (missing data). You violate your partners' feelings (miss-handled data). Your partner reacts offensively (undesirable data output). Your partner response gets your attention (new data input). You seek your partners' forgiveness, (data processing). Your partner desires to make sure you suffer for the consequences of what you did (result data).
You see, the above is one of the very subtle ways. More practically is the fact that the memory capacity and the processing power(and technique) you need for data involving the students in a university is very different from the memory capacity and the processing power(and technique) you need for the entire population of a country. Same is different for an entire continent as compared to a country.
This exactly super-impose into the cloud-GIS scheme. While GIS involves a technique of processing which can be carried out on an off-cloud platform. For a large dataset required to derive a valuable insight the data, it becomes practically ineffective to run such high volume process-intensive large data operations off the cloud in an operationally sustainable manner.
Basically, if you want to research, develop a workflow, conduct an experiment or demonstrate a concept, off-cloud GIS operations would come in handy. For production purposes, however, you don't want to gamble with your efficiency.
In summary, the confluence of GIS and cloud is the new frontier that harnesses the full potentials all advanced big data technology to carry-out GIS operations in the cloud platform. This unlocks an unimaginable world of unlimited possibilities, speed, flexibility while providing backwards integration to existing resources and an immense business impact.
If you like to know more about the implementation, the business impact or how to leverage the possibilities it has to offer, kindly contact us. We would gladly take you from this conceptual stage to the full result-oriented implementation phase.
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