Spatial Decision Support Systems

Prepared by:
Brian Lewis,
Ben Robertson &
Anne Schillinger

 

ESRI: Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.

Website:  www.esri.com

E-mail:  info@esri.com

Phone:  (909) 793-2853 or (800) 447-9778

 

ESRI are the market leaders in GIS, they provide a variety of GIS software of interest to builders of SDSS. ESRI collaborates with a wide range of partners providing specialist add-on products for use with ESRI software.

They take information such as, customer street addresses and postal codes, store locations and customer product registration information of sales data, locations of stores, factories, and warehouses, the address, cross street, or geographic coordinates of equipment such as telephone poles and electric transformers and routes for deliveries and connects it to a physical location somewhere on the surface of the earth.

Retail, transportation/logistics, real estate, finance, health care, government—organizations with formidable infrastructure management challenges—benefit from GIS integrating resources, visualizing assets, and streamlining work flow processes.

 

MapInfo

Website:  www.mapinfo.com

E-mail:  custserv@mapinfo.com

Phone:  (800) 327-8627 (North America)

 

MapInfo is an important provider of desktop GIS software. MapInfo provides Mapx technology which allows mapping components be added to systems built using other development tools such as VB or Delphi.  MapInfo allows you to take advantage of location information. Their solutions combine your corporate data sources with external data such as demographics, lifestyle and buying behavior. They provide analysis applications and dynamic information query and delivery systems for everyone in your organization to help you find, serve and grow customers.

 

 

Autodesk

Website:  www.autodesk.com

E-mail:  CustomerService@autodesk.com

Phone:  (800) 538-6401 or (415) 507-4600 (US only)

 

Autodesk provides a range of GIS software and tools.  These include:  Autodesk World, a desktop package which caters for multiple data formats; Autocad Map, which allows precision mapping and GIS analysis in the AutoCAD environment; and Autodesk Mapguide, which allows creation of an intelligent raster/vector map-driven Web site.

 

Autodesk can help you manage your data your way with Autodesk World software, the open, flexible system for accessing, integrating, and managing all your geographic data.  Break the data integration barrier and access your existing GIS data directly in their native formats without conversion, including ARC/INFO, ArcView, MapInfo, Intergraph, and other popular vector files.

Caliper Corp

Website:  www.caliper.com

E-mail:  Sales@caliper.com

Phone:  (617) 527-4700

 

Caliper Corp provides several types of desktop GIS, including Transcad, which provides routing, and transportation modeling in a GIS environment.  Caliper is also an highly regarded consulting and R&D provider offering professional services in quantitative management consulting, transportation, and decisions support systems development. Caliper software products are supported with extensive technical services in GIS applications and training, database development and software customization. 
 

Caliper is the developer of the Maptitude, GIS+, and TransCAD commercial geographic information and analysis software packages.

TransCAD Transportation GIS software is the only GIS designed specifically to support transportation applications such as transportation planning, facilities management, public transit, and logistics. TransCAD is used extensively for transportation database development and maintenance, demand forecasting, operations management, and vehicle routing and scheduling. TransCAD is widely used in both the public and private sectors, with a very large user base among branches of the US DOT, state DOTs, and many statewide and regional planning agencies.  Since its release in 1988, TransCAD has grown to become the dominant GIS in many of its specialized application areas.

Maptitude is the most capable, accessible, and affordable full-featured mapping package for Windows. Designed for data visualization and geographic analysis, Maptitude surpasses other desktop mapping products by providing expanded functionality, unequaled technology, and incomparable ease of use at a fraction of the price of other products. Maptitude comes with a comprehensive library of nationwide and worldwide maps on CD, including complete US street maps, and Census tract and ZIP Code boundaries and demographics.

GIS+ is a GIS for professional users that sets new standards for performance, functionality, and ease of use. In addition to a complete range of tools for the creation, analysis, and display of geographic databases, GIS+ includes functions to support enterprise-wide geographic data management.

 

Tactician
Website: www.tactician.com
E-mail:  info@tactician.com
Phone:  978-475-4475   or toll-free
            800-927-7666 (North America only)

Tactician develops and supplies mapping software and data for sales, marketing, and business planning.  Tactician software products use interactive mapping technology to help companies visualize business information and make decisions. 

Tactician 5 is the industry’s most powerful mapping and analysis engine.

Snap-on-Solutions “snap-on” to Tactician 5 for focused Micro-Marketing applications.

MapScape is Tactician’s Internet application that provides interactive mapping and reporting over the Internet.  Marketers can make decisions ranging from global to street level.


Environmental Software and Services (ESS)
Website: www.ess.co.at
E-mail: info@ess.co.at
Phone:  +43225263305

ESS in Austria specializes in the development and implementation of Integrated Environmental Information Systems and model-based Decision Support Systems for a broad range of applications in environmental planning and management.  ESS products combine state-of-the-art simulation and optimization models, data analysis, GIS, and expert systems.  ESS provides products in six areas.

1.     interactive simulation, optimization models

2.     distributed databases and GIS applications

3.     expert systems and knowledge

4.     graphics, multimedia, scientific visualization

5.     client-server distributed information systems

6.     Intra/Internet solutions

Facet Decision Systems, Inc.
Website: www.facet.com
E-mail: info@facet.com
Phone:  604-606-8070

Facet Decision Systems, Inc. builds Decision Management software products for Business Intelligence users.  Decision Management is the process of assembling information, analyzing it, and presenting it graphically, so you understand what is going on and can make informed decisions.  All Facet products are client-server, web-ready products.  User interfaces are Java-based, using Internet browser technology to run over Intranets and the Internet.  Their products, training, and services consists of the following:

Cause&Effect, Decision Management Portal tools that let you assemble, analyze, and understand more information in a shorter amount of time.  Processes for data assembly, analysis, workflow, visualization, and interaction over the Web.

Frameworks, organizes Decision Processes so they are efficient, transparent, repeatable, well informed and fast.

FastTracks, manages the process of building Decision Management systems.  An efficient way to use technologies provides checkpoints for risk management and evaluation of direction, priorities, and scope.

Graticule
Website:  www.graticule.com
Phone: sales@graticule.com
E-mail:  +44 113-234 4000

Graticule provides desktop and Internet mapping solutions, route finding and navigation and software tool-kits. 

MapServer 5, offers developers a range of capabilities for generic desktop mapping in Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT.  It can create different types of maps (thematic, topographic, plans, cadastres, street atlases, etc.) dynamic maps show almost real-time changes and maps at multiple scales.

Demo MapServer 5 Turbo.

RouteFinda/Shortest Route Network Analysis DLL, a component for shortest-route and fastest route analysis through a network such as roads, railways, air routes, sea routes, pipelines, telecommunications, and other networks.  Used for vehicle navigations and route planning.

 

Nobility
Website: www.nobility.com
E-mail: webmaster@nobility.com

 

Nobility EM provides comprehensive assessment and reporting of environmental impacts; identification of optimum approaches to mitigation and monitoring; and efficient "what if" evaluation of alternatives.  Unique in the environmental software industry, Nobility EM provides a wide range of users with integrated access to environmental knowledge, information and tools for faster, better decision making.

 

Nobility RIMS is designed specifically for defense customers.  Nobility RIMS (Range Information Management System) is a military range and training area scheduling system that fulfills a number of natural resource management functions including scheduling and tracking of facilities and lands, maintenance of on-line spatially based environmental inventories and management of safety issues.

 

Sylvan Maps
Website: www.sylvanmaps.com

E-mail: sylvan@sylvanmaps.com
Phone: 800-362-8971

Sylvan Maps conveys geologic, geographic or demographic information as a map. Sylvan Maps lets you design your dynamic map from anywhere over the net using FrontPage or Visual InterDev. Product allows one to publish so that any browser can view the maps, with no installation of programs or plug-ins necessary. Use map data from a huge number of free and paid sites to create your personal, totally customized maps.

 

Arc View

Website: dsslink.com/arcview.htm

E-mail: webguy@dsslink.com
Phone:  888-840-6100

Arc View creates pattern visualization software, a type of software that can help correlate and analyze the wealth of data that abounds in most organizations' sales and marketing departments. Helps businesses "see" customer concentrations, sales patterns or the results of advertising campaigns. Arc View is beneficial to banks seeking a site for a new automated teller machine, a fast-food franchiser assigning territories, a retailer locating a new store or a distributor planning delivery routes.