How do OpenGIS Specifications support system integration?
Integration in our industry means making spatial data accessible from multiple technologies and software vendors and making spatial data and spatial functionality available to other IT systems such as customer response management, logistics, location-based services for wireless devices, etc. The benefit is that users can thus access, combine, and disseminate geospatial information from distributed and varied information sources. Integration streamlines workflow and reduces costs of information production, maintenance and dissemination. Integration is far more efficient, with significant immediate and downstream cost savings, if the integration can be accomplished with open standard interfaces instead of proprietary and/or custom interfaces. Enterprise systems integrated using open interfaces can enjoy the “network effects” that result from the same interfaces being used in the world outside the enterprise. An open interoperability platform motivates vendors to introduce more tools, com
Integration in our industry means making spatial data accessible from multiple technologies and software vendors and making spatial data and spatial functionality available to other IT systems such as customer response management, logistics, location-based services for wireless devices, etc. The benefit is that users can thus access, combine, and disseminate geospatial information from distributed and varied information sources. Integration streamlines workflow and reduces costs of information production, maintenance and dissemination.
