Professional
Services
emapsite inside’s Professional Services
layer is available to ease the process by providing end-to-end support from the
initial requirement discussions to application maintenance, to ensure that the location
application meets the business goals. Services include:
- Data, design and
integration consultancy
- Project management
- Systems implementation
- Specialised ongoing
support (for example automated messaging)
- Training
The use of these services can reduce
the cost, risk and time to add new business critical functionality to existing services
– especially when ‘location’ is unfamiliar territory. The complexity of location
content itself increases the importance of well supported and easily implemented
solutions. Professional Services allow all parts of the project team to focus on
what they do best to bring location intelligence to the desktop.
The following operational aspects of
Professional Services place us at the forefront of the location intelligence delivery
business:
- a web services
delivery model
- a history of working
with UI design teams
- proven third party
integration
- custom applications
development
- location content
consultancy
Location content and geographical data
are complex worlds, the advantages of which are best elicited in the context of
the enquiry rather than in relation to the source data itself.
Accurate, simple, multi-tier location validation offers an easy to integrate
and easy to use approach to initiate end user contact and inter-action.
Clear, informative results, structured to meet the query and delivered quickly
complete the picture.
The end user benefits from the right
location intelligence at the right time.
Our customers find that our approach gives them the confidence to define and refine
their solutions, retaining customer responsiveness throughout design and integration,
critical when appending new functionality to existing services for a client who
may be unfamiliar with the location milieu.
Our expertise and collaborative approach
will reduce the cost, risk and time to add new business critical functionality to
existing services – especially when ‘location’ is unfamiliar territory.
The complexity of location content itself
increases the importance of well supported and easily implemented solutions.
emapsite inside’s Professional Services
allow all parts of the project team to focus on what they do best to bring location
intelligence to the desktop.
This module responds to the need to
enable our partners and clients swiftly to adopt, adapt and integrate the available
content and tools into their own applications and services.
While emapsite ascribes to recognised global standards in the publishing
and dissemination of web services, including WSDL, we also recognise that these
can be arcane at times and that the complexity of location content places increased
onus on well supported, easily implemented services.
Thus this module is less an online self-build toolkit and more an access
point online and off to our intellectual capacity in the location domain.
Our team of development professionals
have unrivalled knowledge of the location content management and provisioning world
and “own” the web services that publish these to the world.
Areas where this expertise is at a premium and where emapsite lead include:
- Authorisation
and authentication
- Security
- Web services configuration
- Multi-source geographic
data aggregation
- Spatial database
management
- Geographic data
licensing
Many of the integration demands of an
individual implementation are down to familiarity with and confidence in the language
and grammar of the geographic domain; emapsite’s track record in these areas translates
into rapid development and application development support, conferring the required
attributes to the client.
Clients such as the National Schools
MapPilot in which an anonymised authorisation and authentication layer using the
Shibboleth protocol was a make or break requirement in order to protect pupil identity,
have benefited from emapsite’s ability to integrate discrete functionality into
the other modules to comply with regulations and meet expectations.
emapsite seeks to harness these complexities
and deliver simplicity to and for our clients through industry leading expertise
and to end users via the Delivery module.
Professional Services allows our clients and ourselves to focus on what they
do best to bring location intelligence to the desktop or other device.