TomTom expands partnership with Blom to improve road networks in Europe

With the help of TomTom's professional traffic analysis tools, Blom – a European provider of GIS services – can now enable governments in Europe to identify and solve the bottlenecks in their road network quickly and at reduced costs. TomTom and Blom already cooperate in creating the largest 3D city model database and are now expanding their partnership to support Blom in selling TomTom's advanced traffic products.

With TomTom's unique traffic products, Blom can support municipalities, regions, provinces and national government authorities across Europe with bottleneck analysis, evaluation studies and investment proposals in order to help their customers improve travel times for the entire European road network. TomTom's historical traffic database includes more than five trillion anonymous data points and continues to grow with over six billion data points collected per day.

"The expansion of our partnership with Blom is proof of the growing demand for advanced traffic analysis to help reduce traffic congestion and save costs," said Nuno Campos, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for TomTom Licensing. "With the addition of TomTom's accurate historical traffic analyses, Blom can help speed up policy and decision-making within governments."

"Blom are always looking to bring innovative solutions to the marketplace and we believe that TomTom's historic traffic analysis technology is one such example.

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STAR-APIC Announce FME Training Courses

STAR-APIC is pleased to announce that our new schedule of FME training for 2012 is now published, with online booking available for the first time. Help make the most of your investment in FME and learn how to automate and simplify spatial processing tasks.
 
We are running regular two day “Introduction to FME Desktop” training courses at our offices in Bishop’s Stortford throughout the year.
 
We can also run onsite, Advanced FME and FME server training as required. All courses are presented by an FME accredited trainer, and are also accredited by the AGI and worth 7 CPD points. For details of the courses, available dates and costs please visit http://fmetraining.eventbrite.co.uk/

If you have any questions about FME or would like further information, please contact FME@star-apic.co.uk.

Symology awarded only Street Works place on G Cloud Framework

Symology, the UK's leading supplier of Street Works systems and a major supplier of Highway Asset Management systems, is pleased to announce that the Government Procurement Service has made the only award on the G Cloud Framework for a Street Works co-ordination solution to Symology.

HM Government is committed to the adoption of cloud computing and delivering computing resources. The G-Cloud is an iterative programme of work to achieve this, which will deliver fundamental changes in the way the public sector procures and operates ICT.

Solutions awarded a place on the G Cloud framework can be procured directly by public sector organisations without the need for an OJEU procurement process or mini-competition. This not only saves money but also dramatically shortens the time to implementation.

Insight Street Works Management for Traffic Managers (Cloud Edition) builds on existing attributes of Symology’s Managed Service and delivers Symology’s traditional Street Works Management solution in a way that is consistent with the demands of cloud computing:

• A point solution for Street Works Management with well-defined and streamlined processes for system commissioning and contract exit
• Launched from a web browser for ease of user implementation and access
• More efficient use of ICT and energy resources through use of a multi-tenanted architecture
• Allows the business to scale its requirements through dynamic adjustment of user numbers (up and down) with charges varying accordingly
• Reduction in vendor lock-in as a result of 12 month minimum contract term
• ISO 27001 certification provides reassurance on security and availability

Mike Bartlett, Managing Director of Symology commented, “We’re delighted to be the only supplier of Street Works solutions listed on the G Cloud Framework.”

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AeroGRID Adds Aerial Imagery of Canada

Paris, France, 21 February 2012 – AeroGRID has signed a data agreement with First Base Solutions, Canada’s leading provider of aerial photography and orthophoto mapping. The agreement will enable AeroGRID to resell 120,000km² of central Canada plus all major cities with the data supplied via WMS.

AeroGRID currently hosts over 1.5 million square kilometres, of continuous aerial survey coverage over 10 countries in Western Europe as well as data from South Africa and the USA on its WMS web server. AeroGRID can also provide additional access to 2m km² of data from 10 other European nations.

WMS is the standard protocol for streaming georeferenced map imagery over the Internet to web based applications, GIS and CAD software. WMS feeds only load the imagery that a user needs to see rather than a whole dataset, it is a very convenient and efficient way for our clients to access our growing library of high resolution high accuracy imagery.

“AeroGRID now has an established and growing network of partners extending to every continent,” said Miles Taylor, General Manager.

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SciSys accepted as a supplier of Cloud services to the UK Government

SciSys is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as a supplier of Cloud services to the UK Government.   The Government Procurement Service (GPS) has established a catalogue of suppliers, known as the G-Cloud, to facilitate the supply of the entire range of cloud services from hardware to specialist consultancy on moving to the cloud.

Steve Brignall, SciSys CTO commented:  “The UK Government has had the provision of IT services via the cloud as a strategic priority for some time, and the G-Cloud is a significant step to realising the benefits of the cloud.  Inclusion on this catalogue is vital for any supplier who wishes to continue providing IT services to the UK Government.  Our inclusion on both the lots we tendered means we will continue to bring premium value to existing and new Government customers”

SciSys have been successful in achieving entries in both lots that it applied for: Google Mapping services and Helpdesk provision (With Cherwell) in the Software As A Service (SAAS) lot and integration, implementation, application management / support and Google Mapping Consultancy on the specialist cloud services lot.

This is a first step towards the formation of the G-Cloud; further services can be added at a later date, subject to GPS approval, and SciSys will be actively building a portfolio of cloud services in the future.

For more information on this press release please contact SciSys on +44(0)1249 466466 or via info@scisys.co.uk

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