Improved GIS Collaboration

Companies that have a large number of employees across offices, in remote branches, or off-site, can find collaboration in the traditional GIS environment quite difficult. Imagine working on a project assigned to teams spread across several departments as well as an off-site team collecting data.

Traditional GIS requires every employee in the team to work on his workstation and on his dataset. This causes multi-versioned files and affects project complexity. Versions must be tracked, files exchanged, and in the end merged, to deliver the final project. Managing these processes in such an error-prone environment can be very difficult.

GIS Cloud’s sharing features enable centralized access to projects. Each employee can see the complete project with his user account and fulfill tasks assigned to him regardless of his location. The changes are available immediately to everyone who needs to see them.

Projects and maps developed this way can be managed quite easily because there is no merging and copying of data. The data is being assembled in real-time which is much less error-prone than the traditional approach.