GIS在资源环境的发展趋向权威调查报告中_英文.pdf

MarketScope for Energy and Utility Geographic Information Systems Gartner RAS Core Research Note Bradley Williams, Jeff Vining, 26 January 2009, R3009 For energy and utility buyers of GIS software that want to better understand what providers are offering in this market, we update our map of GIS vendors’ products that are most appropriate for this sector. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Energy and utility companies’ interest in geographic information systems (GISs) has moved from facility mapping to infrastructure management and related location-intelligence decision- support frameworks. Consumer-based, spatial-enabled Web applications (such as Google Earth and Google Maps, and Microsoft Virtual Earth) have expanded traditional energy and utility GIS capabilities into executive business intelligence (BI) dashboards, mobile workforce tools and customer service interactions. Originally, GISs were stand-alone systems designed to solve specific mapping needs. Today, many utilities see GIS as a key part of their enterprise information management (EIM) strategies, as well as an enabler of more-advanced asset analysis and service delivery management functionality – such as outage management