Custom GIS Applications/Solutions

In addition to selling software tools to GIS solution developers, TatukGIS develops custom GIS applications and solutions, particularly when featuring the TatukGIS Internet Server. TatukGIS will consider licensing its GIS internet server and aerial imagery technology to other software publishers to be embedded into their products.

TatukGIS Advantages:

• Deep knowledge of GIS technology gained from the creation of the TatukGIS Development Kernel, GIS Internet Server, and Aerial Imagery Corrector products.
  
  
• Independence from all third party software licensing and royalty obligations, which permits TatukGIS more pricing flexibility than is possible with other GIS solution developers who must rely on licensed, third-party software.
  
  
• Intimate understanding of its internally developed GIS software, which better positions TatukGIS to deliver custom solutions using its own GIS software, relative to other GIS solution developers using third-party development software.

Examples of Areas for Custom Applications:

Infrastructure Management and Planning

• Municipal government management of zoning, urban growth planning, infrastructure maintenance and replacement schedules, property ownership records, traffic projections, "what if" flow analysis (such as traffic or water/sewage), new building permit management and control, etc. Solutions can incorporate periodically updated aerial photos to reflect incremental changes. Many government bodies use GIS for the management of property ownership and property tax records, sometimes publishing the information, in combination with the relevant aerial photos, on the Internet for public access.
  
  
• Port complexes, industrial and military infrastructure sites, real estate properties, cemeteries, forest resources, etc., in which a spatial/map orientated user interface is most useful to the management and planning effort. This allows multiple users, from the comfort of office workstations located anywhere, to spatially track and optimize the deployment of infrastructure assets, plan and track maintenance/replacement schedules. Often the GIS map would the joined to a database so that querying by name, class, type, location, etc. can be done through the map interface.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Retail store networks, gas station chains, distribution hubs, etc., in which the decision on where to locate new facilities should be optimized relative to the physical locations of clients, markets, future growth, transportation infrastructure, already existing point of sale locations, store locations of competitors. Spatial considerations can have a material influence on the effectiveness of the marketing strategy and on long-term product distribution costs.
  
  
  
  
  
  

Real-time applications with GPS

• City police, fire and emergency medical assessment and response, immediately taking into consideration the exact map location of an emergency situation, distance from the nearest response vehicles, street layouts and traffic patterns, prior history of similar situations at that particular location or address, distance from nearby public health hazard locations, exact location of nearby fire hydrants, etc. Police departments may use GIS to geographically record criminal incident histories to aid in spotting geographic patterns of criminal activity and to most effectively position mobile units and route patrols.
  
  
• Product distribution network management to optimize service and security and minimize transportation costs.
  
  
• Control of the movement of cargo in and between container ports.
  
  
• Security applications including anti car or cargo theft systems and real estate security alarm monitoring services.
  
  
• Car trip planning applications for the retail market.
  
  
• Management, routing, and optimization of fleets of moving assets, such as trucks, rail cars, ships, and aircraft.
  
  
• Military land and sea navigation and asset deployment.

Sales/marketing analysis and customer relationship management (CRM)

• GIS aided sales/marketing analysis and planning in organizations where geographical/spatial considerations are important, such as consumer product orientated organizations with many geographically diverse sales points. The use of a thematic map application, interactively linked to a database, to present a geographic presentation of sales and marketing data can prove useful in many situations, which as: i) comparison of sales to historical results or to budgeted plan by geographical area or sales region, ii) regional/geographical comparison of market share and price point data relative to the products of close competitors, iii) evaluation of the influence on local sales of regionally targeted advertising or promotional campaigns, iv) comparison of the effectiveness of sales person calling efforts by geographical area to determine optimal deployment of resources, and v) quick preparation of exhibits to present financial performance in a map format. A GIS solution can be linked to a marketing organization's ERP/accounting system so that GIS reports for marketing analysis can be generated as automatically as any other statements or reports relied upon by the marketing function.
  
  
• GIS-aided Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in organizations where the physical location of a customer is very important to the maintenance or delivery of a service or product. An example is a cable television or fixed wire telephone network, in which the quick identification of a customer's location relative to the cable or line infrastructure, or relative to other customers with a similar situation or problem, allows the quick identification of systematic or network-dependent problems or possibilities. Other types of organizations might benefit from a CRM system incorporating GIS with GPS tracking, such as an express package delivery (or currier) network or a taxi company.

Internet or WAP Portals

• The TatukGIS Internet Server can be adapted for most map-orientated applications offered by a web portal. Examples include street address querying, route planning, maps related to current news stories or events, enhancement of geographically focused client advertising efforts, or enhanced WAP utility with the immediate matching of the present location of a mobile telephone customer with business advertisers in the same location offering products or services desired by the mobile phone customer. Key advantages of the TatukGIS IS solution include: i) support of most leading GIS and AutoCAD map data formats, ii) graphic as well as textual presentation (even with WAP and small telephone screens), iii) dynamic image presentation (can be customized to offer the best graphic appearance on any type of monitor), iv) scaleable (appropriate for load-balancing and cluster environments), and v) speed (faster than other map server options).

Network flow monitoring and management

• GIS applications can be helpful in the management of pipeline networks - oil, gas, water, or other liquids - electrical power distribution grids, or city street traffic light networks. Network flow sensors transmit data from strategic points along the pipeline or network to allow the entire network to be spatially monitored and controlled from a single location via the GIS application.