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It's A Brave New World
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Using Internet Technologies to Compete Effectively
It was recently stated that over 1 million users are in the AM/FM level, 8 million users at the second level and 20 million users at the third level. There have been predictions that embedded spatial technology applications should grow at around 30 to 35 percent during the next two to three years with a big piece of that being in the mobile field mapping services.
Just think, we now have over 3.2 million web sites to surf and all are competing for your customer’s attention and dollars. If you don’t have the correct information, your competitor is just another site away. Today there are 159 million people online. International Data estimates that 510 million people will be online worldwide by 2003.
The Internet: a Revolution in the way we will do Busines
Some of the questions you must answer today are:
- How do you effectively distribute business-related data to your staff and clients?
- How can you effectively receive information from your staff and clients in a timely manner?
- How can you effectively provide remote customer services and have all necessary information in the hands of your remote employees?
- How can you help remote users conduct rapid analysis to make informed decisions?
- How do you allow data to reside anywhere, but make it accessible from anywhere (with privileges)
- How do you serve any type of data: documents, tables, databases, sound, video, maps, and real-time data?
- How do you manage remote employees’ time sheets, work orders, drawing updates and keep them on the site being productive?
- How are you going to expand your business regionally, nationally globally?
- How do you track your fleet and equipment off site?
Are these questions starting to sound familiar? It is happening every day in companies all over the world so get ready for another round of reengineering. The Internet lets us communicate instantly with every supplier, partner and customer and in many cases lets them communicate with each other and this is rapidly changing our business processes.
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