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General Mills, Inc. F4Q08 (Qtr End 05/25/08) Earnings Call Transcript
General Mills, Inc. GIS
Tags: General Mills Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Seeking Alpha, GIS, Software
Earnings calls 2008-06-25
GIS Applications for Oil Spill Prevention and Response in California
GIS applications include resource assessment, contingency planning, data integration, and analysis. GIS technology is imbedded in oil spill prevention and response in California. Initially used for biological resource assessment GIS has proven to be an excellent data management and organizational tool that is now widely utilized for drills, exercises, contingency...
Tags: Business security, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., GIS, contingency planning, emergency response, data integration, California, data management, tool, analysis
White papers
Field planning and development of Oil and Gas Reservoirs using GIS Technology
The paper mentions that the activities in advancing a deepwater oil or gas field to production stage are numerous and the interdependency of the activities, complex. Determining how to best extract the discovered fluids from the reservoirs and deliver the products to the market, while minimizing CAPEX, OPEX and risk...
Tags: reservoir, GIS
White papers
Pipeline Safety: Inspection, Mapping & Visualization Methods
The paper mentions that the pipeline industry has responded to the growing concern for public safety by developing a new family of in-pipe inspection tools called "PIGS" to measure and map geometric and material anomalies. From this data, numerous GIS map, profile, and pipe visualization views are constructed in a...
Tags: anomaly, application framework, GIS, industry
White papers
Photogeology and GIS in Oil Exploration in Ecuador
The paper describes the oil exploration process conducted in the Amazon basin of Ecuador and explains how it helped to generate geological, structural maps using GIS, air photos, satellite and radar images. This tool and materials used not only allowed a faster way of working but also permitted the development...
Tags: GIS, radar, satellite, photograph, tool
White papers
A GIS-Based Decision Support System For Brownfield Redevelopment
Rapid growth in regions surrounding large metropolitan areas leads to the phenomenon of urban sprawl. In states like Michigan, land is being converted at a rate seven times greater than formerly used and potentially contaminated sites are being redeveloped. City governments now see these unused or abandoned areas as important...
Tags: Vertical industries, Michigan State University, decision support system, GIS, government, asset
White papers
U-Access: A Web-Based Spatial Decision Support System Routing Pedestrians Of Differing Abilities
The combination of the limited mobility and inaccessible built environments positions disabled individuals at risk of exclusion from the opportunities and activities that many take for granted. While a trip to a store maybe a routine activity for a peripatetic traveling on foot person, for a people who uses a...
Tags: University of Utah, pedestrian, GIS, decision support system, environment, SVG, Java 2, mobility, Web
White papers
Using Geographic Information in Marketing
Using Geographic Information in MarketingGIS APPLICATIONGIS has many applications. However, its application for Marketing and user locatio is a great idea. I believe it could be used extensively in the Tourism industry and in the Health Field - epecially for identifyiyng areas of manifestation and possible causes of the health...
Tags: GIS, Marketing research, Vertical industries, Geographic Information, marketing
Discussion threads 2007-05-31
Case Study: Implementing Topobase At LVVWD
The Las Vegas Valley Water District LVVWD is the largest water purveyor in southern Nevada serving more than 1 million people. Company's challenge was to seamlessly integrate CAD (Computer-Automated Design) and GIS Geographic Information System data with minimal impact on user productivity. The solution provided was to utilize Autodesk Topobase...
Tags: Autodesk Inc., GIS, overhead cost, CAD, legacy system, asset
Case studies 2007-03-19
Focus Turns to Disaster Response: After Katrina, Integrated Networks and GIS Are Crucial
The slow, disorganized response by federal, state and local emergency responders to Hurricane Katrina has prompted state and county information technology officials to think more creatively about how to deploy technology when evacuating populous areas before and after major disasters. Integrated, regional communications networks with built-in redundancies and wireless networks...
Tags: Wi-Fi, Hurricane Katrina, GIS, information technology, wireless network, wireless, network
White papers 2005-09-19
In the Beginning, There Was Water: Salzburg AG Improves Efficiency Thanks to Integration of GIS and ERP Solutions
This paper describes about Salzburg AG, the regional provider of energy and infrastructure services in the province of Salzburg, Austria, implemented a direct exchange of data between its Geographic Information System GIS and SAP software to improve processes in planning and construction, network operations and maintenance, as well as sales...
Tags: SAP AG, GIS, ERP, marketing, sales, network, software
Case studies 2005-08-01
How Are Title Insurance Companies Using GIS?
When one thinks of GIS, title insurance isn't the first thing that comes to mind. However, many title offices are finding GIS is just what they need to help with their mapping and document management needs. Title plants, data centers that process thousands of land records each day, have found...
Tags: Real estate, Environmental Systems Research Institute Inc., title insurance, GIS, insurance company, document management, outsourcing, data center
White papers 2005-07-05
Recommendations for Increasing Local GIS Use Throughout Kansas
The state of Kansas has been a notable leader in the development and implementation of Geographic Information Systems at the level of state government. However, while an honest assessment of the state of GIS implementation in Kansas shows many positives, some significant shortcomings also exist. There has been general agreement...
Tags: Kansas, GIS, leader, agreement
White papers 2005-05-11
Web-Based Implementation Of Winter Maintenance Decision Support System Using GIS And Remote Sensing
Winter maintenance, particularly snow removal and the stress of snow removal materials on public structures, is an enormous budgetary burden on municipalities and nongovernmental maintenance organizations in cold climates. Lately, geospatial technologies such as remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems GIS, and decision support tools are providing a valuable tool for...
Tags: Iowa State University, GIS, transportation, decision support, asset, Web, tool
White papers 2005-05-01
Ten Ways to Support GIS Without Selling Data
Controversy has been raging for more than a decade on the appropriateness, legality, and effectiveness of public agencies selling their digital geodata. Recent discussions among professionals from both government and private sectors, representing a wide spectrum of opinion on whether public geodata should be sold or given away freely, have...
Tags: GIS, agency
White papers 2005-04-29
A Decision Support System For Map Projections Of Small Scale Data
The use of commercial geographic information system software to process large raster datasets of terrain elevation, population, land cover, vegetation, soils, temperature, and rainfall requires both projection from spherical coordinates to plane coordinate systems and transformation from one plane system to another. Decision support systems deliver information resulting in knowledge...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Databases, U.S. Geological Survey, decision support system, raster, GIS, knowledge, Web
White papers 2004-12-14
More Map, Less Quest
From the executive summary: ‘Maps are back. More than a decade ago, geographic information systems took population and demographic data from the Census Bureau and other sources and gave businesses new ways to see opportunities. Consumers could be segmented by zip code, or regional sales could be analyzed with maximum...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., GIS, GPS, sales
White papers 2004-09-15
ERP Pro
Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Pro Enterprise Management Solution brings the value of spatial data to the entire enterprise. Through the artful application of GIS technology planning, data migration, and application development, ERP Pro leverages GIS technology within Enterprise IS environments help organizations achieve the maximum return on their investment GIS....
Tags: GIS, ERP, application development, environment
White papers 2004-07-21
Assessment Office White Paper
Property taxes are one of the major sources of revenue over which local governments exercise control. Indeed, the fiscal survival of government often depends on proper assessment administration. Traditionally, assessors had limited access to Geographic Information Systems GIS and therefore failed to take advantage of its inherent spatial analysis capabilities....
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, GIS, government, customer service, analysis, tool, tax, environment, financial
White papers 2004-07-01
Preliminary Design Of A Spatial Decision Support System For Poverty Management
Saddled with the burden of increasing poverty among majority of their populace, many African countries are initiating various Poverty Alleviation Programmes PAP. Many of these programmes however miss out the influence of geography and spatial variables as determinants of poverty, that is, the spatial dimension of the problem of poverty....
Tags: Poverty, Decision Support System, GIS, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Software, Management, Enterprise Software, Data Management
White papers 2004-06-10