Geospatial & GIS

Geospatial & GIS Business Group

In the Geospatial & GIS segment, Rolta enjoys a market share of over 70% in India, and provides comprehensive solutions to verticals such as Infrastructure, Telecom, Electric, Airports, Urban Development, Town Planning and Environmental Protection. Rolta is also one of the major providers of Geospatial services worldwide. With the launch of Geospatial Fusion^TM, high-end Photogrammetry and Imaging technologies, Rolta has transformed its Geospatial offerings to now address large markets in the developed and developing worlds with comprehensive and innovative solutions.

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Today’s decision makers need Geospatial information, based on updated and readily available data and maps to make effective decisions for decisive action. Digital maps provide speedy access, analysis and management of spatially referenced information. Therefore, Geospatial and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are no longer tools only for technology specialists, but are critical for decision making at all levels of management.

Internationally, there has been an increasing demand for utility mapping for sectors such as, telecommunications, gas, electric and water/sewer management. Modern day Earth sciences are also moving up from simple mapping, to include day-to-day activities that impact many spheres of life, including health, environment, transportation, communications and many others. Many countries are adopting three-dimensional GIS technology for mapping of ground assets for cities, townships and municipal planning.

With the liberalization of the economy and the implementation of the proposed Indian National Map Policy, it is foreseen that Geospatial/GIS technology will be increasingly used to address the specialized map-data needs of various commercial users, including Emergency Services, Environmental Management, Land Use, Infrastructure Design, Infrastructure Planning, Vehicle Navigation, etc.

Heterogeneous business processes across various divisions of an enterprise are becoming increasingly interdependent. Users from various sections are demanding that information residing in disparate sources and platforms, be presented in a singular, meaningful fashion, consequently, enabling more effective decision making. There is an increasing need for such information to be required to be Geospatially referenced as well, in order to facilitate assimilation of complex business intelligence data.

What is, therefore, needed is a fusion of Geospatial data with relevant non-Geospatial information, and then to present user-specific results over the enterprise-wide Intranet, or over the Internet. This approach is relevant to all types of enterprises, especially in Defense, Government, Infrastructure, Transportation and Utilities.

An Electric utility company, for example, may need its assets, that are distributed across its service territory, mapped and logically connected for enabling optimal decisions. Such decisions could pertain to network planning, operations and maintenance, or outage management. However, these, and other operational decisions cannot be made unless the network map is seamlessly integrated with other enterprise systems like, for instance, finance & billing, customer relations, inventory & purchase, and many others, each of which is perhaps an island by itself.

Similarly, for Defense, while the digital map is the essential foundation, effective command and control systems require that the Geospatial information from the maps be integrated and fused with data streaming in from a multitude of sources and diverse formats, in real time. The marketplace is demanding solutions with an ever increasing level of integration across the enterprise, and not as isolated packages.

The breadth of Geospatial/GIS applications is continually expanding to encompass newer areas. Today, Geospatial/GIS solutions are being increasingly exploited for myriad uses. From modelling urban environment, transportation corridors, land-use analysis and tax management, to mapping flood plains, assessing geological hazards, crop monitoring and watershed management.

To address the rapidly growing demand for integrated solutions, Rolta has established a unique approach and architecture for its Geospatial/GIS offering – Rolta Geospatial Fusion^TM . With this solution, Rolta is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the growth in the GIS market world-wide.

Rolta has acquired technology and established long-term strategic business partnerships with Geospatial/GIS industry leaders, for end-to-end digital mapping solutions – from initial conceptual design to final implementation. Rolta works with a variety of software platforms and systems.

The technologies obtained from these companies ensure that Rolta’s skills and knowledge base constantly remains updated and relevant to its customer needs. Rolta’s competence gives its alliance partners the confidence to refer their global customers to Rolta for quality services.

With new technologies, Rolta is now enabled to distinctively position itself as a provider of spatial integration consulting, software, and implementation services for global markets; these services are critical for customers who have a growing need for innovative, web based, platform-neutral Geospatial solutions to efficiently integrate their GIS resources and meet the comprehensive information needs of their constituents.

Rolta is unique in developing a platform-neutral architecture that incorporates state-of-the-art GIS technologies, business intelligence tools, and Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) middleware for an enterprise level integrated solution – the Rolta Geospatial Fusion^TM solution.

Rolta’s GIS development centres in Toronto and Mumbai work closely together to continually add features and functionality to Rolta's suite of GIS products and toolkits.

Rolta’s in-house Technology Laboratories enables the Company's development professionals and technology experts to always have access to state-of-the-art hardware and software tools and industry trends, so as to ensure that Rolta’s products remain at the leading edge.

Rolta’s delivery centre in Mumbai is one of the largest GIS facilities of its kind, with a highly skilled and dedicated team of over 2,000 technical professionals, equipped with state-of-the-art GIS workstations, software and Photogrammetric mapping suites.

Over the years, Rolta has exploited its extensive domain expertise to establish a library of over 1,600 software toolkits for automation and quality assurance of the work-flows. Rolta has acquired a wealth of experience and an impressive track record in implementing sophisticated systems for Telephone, Electric, Gas and Water utilities as well as Government, Municipal and Transportation agencies in India and globally.

Rolta is now among the top Photogrammetry and GIS software services companies in the world. Rolta also enjoys more than 70 percent share of the GIS and Photogrammetric mapping market in India.

Rolta’s customer base for the Geospatial/GIS business group is spread over 20 countries, with multi-million dollar projects executed around the world.

Rolta’s customer list includes Al Ain Municipality, Airports Authority of India, Bahrain Telecom, BES&T, British Telecom, Bord Gais, Bell Canada, BSNL, Canadian Hydrographic Office, Central Water Commission, CESC, City of Mainz, City of San Jose, City of Toronto, CSEB, Dubai Municipality, Danish Hydrographic Office, Dallas Aerial Survey, Dept of Civil Aviation (Abu Dhabi), Enerco Gas, E-ON, Fiji Telecom, Forest Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, Georgia Power, Greenville Utilities Commission, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Government of Mizoram, GT Oman, Hong Kong Telecom, Indian Institute of Remote Sensing, Jammu & Kashmir Police, Louisville Gas & Electric, MTNL, Montana Dakota Utilities, Military Services Department of UAE, Mumbai Police, Natural Gas Corporation of New Zealand, National Grid, National Hydrographic Office, National Remote Sensing Agency, ONGC, Oranjewoud, Qatar Water, Piedmont Natural Gas, Public Garden Department (Abu Dhabi), Qatar Water, Rajasthan Police, Rochester Gas & Electric Service, Saudi Telecom Southern Bell Corporation, Survey of India, Torrent Power, Toronto Hydro, Telus, United Pan-European Communication, UK Ordnance Survey, US WEST, Verizon, among others.

Rolta has consistently strengthened the competencies of its professionals and quality of its intellectual property over the years, enabling Rolta to continually move up the value chain and address more challenging needs of customers.

Rolta has executed several large value GIS projects in several countries across the world, from the Fiji Islands in the east to Hawaii in the west. As a result, today Rolta has acquired a wealth of domain knowledge and experience in Geospatial/GIS and is able to successfully execute even the most challenging of projects.

Rolta today offers high-end consulting services to enable customers to realize the most out of not only their investments in GIS systems per se, but also through their integration with other enterprise systems.

Rolta provides solutions and services encompassing a wide range of high-end Photogrammetry and Imaging including capture, creation, modeling, analysis and visualization. Apart from this, Rolta is also present at the high-end of value-chain, being able to provide specialized consulting services, extensive customization and managed services for various domains. This is especially true for the developing markets where large scale GIS technologies are just beginning to be deployed and here, Rolta’s comprehensive Photogrammetric mapping and Imaging suites are of great significance as these enable the customer to acquire a total solution from a single source.

Rolta has innovatively blended the capabilities of its own technologies and other business intelligence tools from its existing IPRs, to launch Geospatial Fusion^TM. These are relevant for developed markets, where Geospatial FusionTM enables a user to readily work with a variety of GIS platforms, and integrate non-GIS databases for an enterprise-wide solution. With this approach, now Rolta can offer a complete stack of services that can be addressed not only to the GIS manager, but also to the “C” level executives in customer organizations.

Today, with over several thousand man-years of Geospatial technology experience, Rolta is strongly positioned to provide high-value specialized Geospatial/GIS services enabling it to make an unbeatable value proposition to its customers around the world.