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GIS in Business Processes
Conclusions
The need for coordinated and collaborative business processes is changing the face of how these processes are modeled, executed and managed. GIS is important in BI because most business problems include significant spatial components and GIS enables decision makers to leverage their spatial data resources more effectively. Customer Relationship Management, Enterprise Resources Planning, Supply Chain Management, and more others are acronyms for some solutions designed to extract and analyze information from data warehouses and allow decision-makers to perform at a higher level of efficiency. But data on it's own has no value. Without simple visual ways to integrate, display and analyse, it is possible to end up with massive amounts of data but no information. From a particularly point of view, the geo-spatial data and maps managed within an enterprise GIS represent a kind of common “language” that is understood within and across organizational boundaries. This “language” has the power to weave together and integrate traditionally disparate business functions. Each of these diverse functions is ultimately dependent upon the location and spatial relationships between real property, assets, and people.
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