Mr. Arvind Thakur, CEO NIIT Technologies, speaking at IGF 2013, Hyderabad about evolution of GIS towards Geography as a service platform.

1. The New Paradigm Towards Geo Enabled Economy
India Geospatial Forum, Hyderabad
Jan 22, 2013
Arvind Thakur
CEO, NIIT Technologies Ltd.

2. Our World Has many Challenges
Creating Many Challenges For Us And Our Organizations
Climate Change Economic Uncertainty
Population Urbanization and Land Use
Political and Social Conflict Human Health
Loss of Biodiversity Security
Energy Technology Advancements
Water Security Poverty & Inequality
Natural Resources Globalization
. . . We Need Better Understanding and Collective Intelligence

3. GIS Helps Us to Understand these Challenges
Creating A Systematic Framework For Understanding
Reconstruction
Rehabilitation Disaster Preparedness
Event
Response
Mitigation
Cognitive Digital

4. GIS Is Becoming Vital to Governance
• Systematic
• Holistic
• Analytic
• Quantitative Visualizing
Analyzing
• Visual Designing
& Planning
Modifying
Decision
Making
Measuring
Acting
Employs a science based approach

5. …And Proving Valuable In Decision Making
Defense/Security
Water Environment
Urban Planning
Natural
Resources
Extensively Used in Many
Infrastructure Major Integrated Projects such as
• RAPDRP
Land Records Disaster • CCTNS
Management • JNNURM
• NLRMP
• PMGSY……
Energy/Power Agriculture
Human Health Education
Improving Planning, Management and Decision Making . . .
. . . Providing Critical Infrastructure

7. We See Evolution of IT
Python
Web Services
C++
Grid Computing
Java
Utility Computing
Cloud Computing
IBSYS
DOS Kernel
Pc-DOS
Unix SunOS
Windows 2.0 Linux MacOS

8. And GIS Aptly Embracing This Evolution
Billions Society Internet
Millions Application
Client Server
Users
100’s of Thousands
GIS Professionals Personal Computer
Thousands Research Mainframe
Leveraging Our Collective Geospatial Investments . . .
. . . Making Maps and GIS Available to Everyone

9. Many Forces Are Converging
Enabling a Pervasive Geospatial Platform
. . . Opening Our World to Everyone

10. The Convergence Facilitates…….
• Innovative & Collaborative Applications
• Integration of Systems Multiple Client Mash Up
Platforms
SOA & Web 2.0
• Evolution of SDI
. . . Extending a pervasive geospatial platform
. . . For Geo-enabled Services

12. A New GIS Pattern Is Emerging
Making GIS Accessible to Everyone
Desktop
Lightweight
Server
Mobile
. . . Virtually Anywhere and on Any Device

13. Providing “Geography as a Service” Platform
An Open Platform for Maps, Apps and Geographic Information
Cloud / Web
Desktop Server
Intelligent Web Maps
. . . Easy and Accessible by Everyone

14. Cloud GIS Provides That Platform
• Integrating Traditional GIS with a Whole New World of Apps
• Making What Has Been Scarce . . . Abundant
• . . . Providing Geography as a Platform

15. Benefits of Cloud GIS
Resources when you need them
Elastic &
Scalable
BENEFITS TO CUSTOMER
Meet unpredictable
Dynamic or erratic demand
provisioning
Avoid asset expenditures
CapEx to
OpEx
Always on, Always available
Increased
Availability
Reduces risk of paying
for wasted resources
Pay per use
Monitor Provides transparency
resource
usage
Limited IT
infrastructure Renting assets only
when needed

16. ArcGIS Online Is ESRI’s Cloud GIS Platform
Providing
• Content Management
• Intuitive Mapping
Public
Executive Engagement
• Sharing and Collaboration
Access Works
• Enterprise Integration Anywhere
Knowledge
• Open Interoperability Workers
Enterprise
Integration
Professional GIS
• Integrating ArcGIS with Cloud Computing

17. ArcGIS Online Advantages
Unique & Rich set of content, Geoprocessing Applications and Services
Geoprocessing Tools
Images
APIs
Models and Templates Geo-enabled Services
Maps
SDKs
Geocentic Apps
Catalog
Groups
Hosting ArcGIS Online
. . . A Comprehensive Platform
. . . For Organizing and Providing Access

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