The annual ESRI International User Conference is always incredible, but this year novotX was nowhere to be found – no booth, and no people sitting through classes. Are we crazy?
Maybe.
Online plenary presentations, Twitter, Foursquare, and LinkedIn groups helped us make the decision. The biggest factor in our decision, however, was our customers.
So where were we?
At our office, working – just like most of you.
The fact is, this year we’ve been absolutely swamped with implementations and new customers coming onboard with our GIS-based asset and work management software. So, instead of putting our resources into an exhibit hall and buying alcohol for anyone at the conference that could possibly buy our software, we decided to put our money into our existing customers.
Our goal is to keep our customers happy and provide GIS-based asset management software that works.
I’ll be the first to admit – there’s not a better place to see the latest technologies, learn from experts in the industry, and meet new geo-peeps. These conferences have also proven to provide excellent resources for GIS admins to find information on asset and work management software applications that integrate with ESRI and other GIS products.
So for those of you who made it to the conference, hopefully we’ll see you next year. For those of us who didn’t make it to the conference? I guess we can count ourselves lucky that we didn’t have to walk through a crowded exhibit hall full of sales reps trying to Jedi Mind Trick us into buying whatever it is they’ve got to offer. Exhibit halls are funny places, but I’ll save that for another post.
If you’d like to find conference information related GIS and Asset, Infrastructure, or Work Management (whether you attended the UC in person or not) you can join our newly formed LinkedIn group GIS in Asset, Infrastructure, and Work Management for Government and Utilities.
Elements Management Software integrates with ESRI and other GIS applications, providing GIS-centric asset and work management for government and utilities. For more information visit www.novotx.com.
I do NOT think your software is really “GIS-CENTRIC” by definition, I think you should ony use the “GIS-based” terminology in your publications and avoid any additional Jedi media-mind tricks.
1) Esri ArcGIS geodatabase is the asset / feature data repository.
2) -redundant asset / feature data storage with no reliance on views, links, data mapping, or database triggers.
3) User-definable asset / feature data model that is customizable without vendor support.
4) Non-proprietary asset / feature data structures for field names, types, tables, relationships, and other data design elements.
5) Shared asset / feature data design allowing other GIS-centric solutions to concurrently utilize the asset / feature data.
6) Inherently location-aware asset / feature data structure, enabling full utilization of GIS analysis and modeling tools.
7) ArcGIS software is used to create and maintain the asset / feature data – including for coordinates, shapes, attributes, and data error identification and correction methods – preserving the integrity of the geodatabase relationships, domains, data types, etc.
Thanks Gregory! We have several versions of Elements Management Software – our Enterprise Edition directly uses the ArcGIS engine for the asset / feature data repository – there is no duplicate data, synchronization, or proprietary data models that rely on vendor support in this version. Any other GIS-centric solution may also concurrently utilize the asset / feature data; all asset and feature data is created and maintained in the ArcGIS software.