Enterprise GIS

The right enterprise geospatial information system (GIS) is a richly featured mapping and analytics platform that helps you meet your goals. Our team identifies your specific geospatial needs, then helps you select, implement, and maintain a GIS enterprise platform, so you can make the most of your GIS data. Enhance data-driven decision-making and operational efficiency with a GIS platform that fits your business.

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Expertise

A GIS enterprise platform scaled for you. Now and in the future.

From assessing your current IT environment and goals to configuring and maintaining your new GIS enterprise platform, we’ve got you covered. Our experts implement the foundational systems, including software, hardware, and databases, that work together to produce geospatial data and visualizations. Enjoy a new system that connects to your existing IT infrastructure and data sources—and is flexible to meet your future needs.

Requirements Analysis

The first step for a successful GIS enterprise implementation project. We work with your stakeholders to analyze and understand workflows, data sources, and existing IT infrastructure across your business. By knowing your pain points, use cases, and specific business, we can improve processes and design a GIS enterprise system tailored to meet your strategic and operational goals.

Architecture Design

Whether on-premises, cloud, or hybrid architecture, we help make the decision easy. By collaborating with your IT department, we align standards, security, hosting environments, licensing, and provisioning requirements for your geospatial servers and architecture, keeping in mind data storage and access control needs. Then, we take conceptual diagrams and build them into robust, scalable infrastructures. Built with future growth and change in mind, our architecture provides a solid foundation for your GIS enterprise platform.

Platform Selection

Commercial, custom, or open-source—which GIS software best fits your needs? After establishing your requirements and priorities for a new enterprise system, we identify GIS platforms (Esri, QGIS, DIVA-GIS, Google Earth Pro, custom, etc.) that meet your objectives. Our team creates a detailed requirements matrix, grading each platform on performance, compatibility, cost, and support to pinpoint your ideal choice. With a thorough understanding of options, you can feel confident the final decision balances functionality and support with budget considerations.

System Deployment

See your new system take shape. When it’s time to implement your GIS platform, we collaborate with your IT team to set-up hosting environments, ensuring optimal security and user experience. From purchasing and configuring hardware to installing and configuring GIS software, our team handles it all and tests thoroughly. Our experts set up geodatabases, apply security measures like MFA and SSO, manage user access, and implement data schemas. Post-deployment, we conduct baseline testing and security audits to ensure compliance and smooth operation.

Integration Services

Your GIS system should integrate smoothly with existing and future IT infrastructure, software, and applications. We connect spatial and non-spatial data across your systems, ensuring seamless communication within a single application or tool. Using SDKs, APIs, and REST services, we integrate third-party data and enable map visualizations. Our team embeds web maps into non-GIS software, creating data flows, streamlining processes, and enhancing accessibility. By breaking down data silos, data is accurately transmitted to both GIS and third-party systems, providing a comprehensive view for better decision-making.

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Maintenance and Support

After your GIS system is deployed, a maintenance plan keeps it healthy and reliable over time. We work with you to define roles and responsibilities within the maintenance plan. Our support covers planned tasks like backups and server monitoring and unplanned needs such as system overloads or natural disasters. By leveraging innovative tools like our custom ArcGIS Content Backup tools, we’ll help you maintain a resilient GIS environment tailored to your needs and designed for continuous improvement.

Our Clients

Hundreds of clients.
Thousands of GIS projects.

The system that Resource Data developed allows us to easily manage map tiles and ensure our web maps are consistently up to date. For Intermountain Gas, this functionality has become an indispensable addition to our enterprise GIS environment.
~ Lance Elroy, GIS Manager, Intermountain Gas

Boise School District

Updating GIS for better zone and bus boundary management

Boise School District (BSD) tracked and managed school attendance zone boundaries, routed buses, and determined student eligibility to ride buses using a local GIS. But with zone boundaries changing frequently and its systems not keeping up, the District became overwhelmed with managing the high volume of complex GIS data and keeping it updated.

Resource Data replaced the old PDF maps BSD was relying on with online, interactive maps for school zones, from elementary to high school. We built an automated process to determine student eligibility for riding buses, wrote custom scripts to automate internal processes, and upgraded the District’s GIS to the latest enterprise software. These modern and reliable systems have helped BSD staff manage and update GIS data efficiently. It’s also easier for parents to check whether their kids are eligible to ride the bus to and from school.

Midstream Oil and Gas Company

Streamlining Pipeline Data Management

A San Antonio-based midstream company needed an authoritative system to manage their extensive pipeline and asset data. Their existing data was stored in a variety of feature classes. Because most of the attributes were open-text fields, it increased the likelihood of errors and inconsistent data entry.

Resource Data customized and deployed Esri’s Utility Pipeline Data Model (UPDM), an industry-standard schema, ensuring that all features and their attributes were standardized and mapped correctly. Our team trained the company’s IT and GIS staff on how to manage their assets and back-sync their production data with development and test environments.

The new data-management system standardized the way employees work with their data, boosting data accuracy and operational efficiency. Their new model’s sophisticated network-tracing tools improve essential analysis, management, and compliance reporting.

Major Oil and Gas Company

Custom GIS for successful incident response

When a major oil spill occurred in the Gulf of Mexico, the client needed to know where and how the oil was spreading, how it was impacting the environment, and which resources were available to respond. Resource Data led the GIS response team and built custom web and mobile apps that provided spatial information crucial to guiding clean-up efforts and evaluating the effects to the Gulf’s natural resources.

The applications helped coordinate around-the-clock spill response work by BP, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, the EPA, four state agencies, and multiple contractors successfully. The field data became more accurate and was used daily to support the ongoing response and meet federal reporting requirements. More than 50,000 National Resource Advisor reports were filled out and gathered during the response effort. And over 1,000 people used our applications throughout the cleanup.

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Enterprise Solutions

Your GIS Platform.
Your Way.

When it comes to GIS enterprise platforms, you have options. From analysis to selection, we’re by your side helping make the decision easy. And whatever you choose, we’ll set you up for success, unifying your GIS technologies and workflows across your organization.

Commercial

A commercial enterprise GIS platform is a feature rich mapping and spatial analysis software that requires licensing fees. They typically provide support, updates, patches, and can be quicker to implement. Our certified experts can implement, integrate, configure, support, and enhance your commercial platform. Whether Esri’s ArcGIS Enterprise, Online, Desktop, or other commercial enterprise systems like Mapbox, commercial platforms offer comprehensive foundational GIS systems for mapping, visualization, analytics, and data management.

Open-Source

Open-source GIS software offers free tools and no licensing fees, reducing GIS system implementation costs. Since it’s customizable, our developers can tailor the software to your specific needs and specialized use cases. With its strong community of users and developers, open-source GIS also sees continuous improvements and new feature development. From Quantum GIS (QGIS) suite and GeoDa to Google Earth Pro, Geoserver, and MapServer, we’ll set your GIS software up so you can accomplish your goals.

Custom

Some enterprise GIS platforms might be too costly, have too many bells and whistles, or are missing features essential for your organization. We can customize your existing platform or build a new system that matches your exact workflows and needs while keeping it scalable to quickly and easily meet new requirements. Plus, custom solutions are designed with your technology, your team’s skillset, and your business needs in mind.

Tasha Jackson

Service Area Lead, GIS

Tasha is a talented GIS expert at Resource Data, with nearly two decades of experience in the field. Since joining the company in 2010, she has leveraged her extensive skills in GIS, project management, solution architecture, and strategic planning by leading over 200 projects across Alaska, Oregon, and Idaho.

Not only is Tasha adept at technical execution, but her communication skills ensure projects are completed with precision and adaptability, fulfilling and often surpassing client expectations. In her critical role as the GIS Service Area Lead, Tasha’s leadership is critical to understanding our client’s strategic GIS needs and cultivating the deep expertise that ensures Resource Data remains at the forefront of GIS.