Executive View
Top Level Objectives
Why are geospatial consulting and spatially based enterprise solutions particularly relevant today? Governmental and commercial agencies have a real challenge to find innovative ways to reduce cost while increasing value for their customers. Investments in business, infrastructure management and GIS software in and of itself have not provided the insights management need for decision-making. These applications are most often stove piped and lack the capabilities to adequately address cross functional business processes. To manage these challenges, agencies can really benefit from a spatial view their enterprise data; a view that is enabled by enterprise integration of information and rapid configurability of solutions. This approach achieves quick results but also provides a configurable solution that can be easily changed to meet the continued evolution of customer work processes.
Solution - Innovation
Rolta’s services provide:
- A strategy and architecture with the end business result in mind
- A focus on leveraging current investments in technology
- Time to focus on the business requirements in lieu of the technology
- Quick results that can be scaled over time
- A means for clients to be self-sufficient in the administration and ongoing development of their solution
Advantage - Insight
How does Rolta’ service offering provide unique insight and value?
- Rolta’s Geospatial Fusion Solutions are designed to support ease of business and technical adoption within the enterprise.
- Rolta provides resources with extensive domain expertise to address industry specific requirements. We understand your business!
- Best practices are leveraged across industries so that solutions can be tailored to customers’ needs.
Benefit - Impact
Enterprise projects are not easy and require the right combination of skills to be successful and deliver real value. Rolta has the team that provides expertise in GIS technologies, enterprise integration, business intelligence, business applications and most importantly work processes so that benefits can be realized and organizational performance goals attained.
Management View
Business Objectives
Implementing an enterprise spatial solution can be challenging because of the difficulty to access enterprise data isolated in legacy systems, the difficulty to define organizational work processes and the typically long lead times required to implement IT projects.
Rolta is focused on providing solutions to these challenges in ways that increase benefits, reduce project risk, increase agility of the solution to accommodate changing requirements and reduce the time required to complete projects and achieve the desired benefits.
Solution
Rolta provides Spatial Consulting, Enterprise IT Architecture, Design and Integration, Database Management, Custom Development, Implementation and Training services.
Spatial Consulting services includes Enterprise GIS Strategy, Technology Strategy, Data / Technology Migration Strategy, Implementation Strategy, Communication Strategy and Business Process and ROI Analysis.
Enterprise IT Architecture, Design and Integration services include: assessment of current IT infrastructure, identification of solutions that provide seamless integration of traditional business IT and GIS services; formulation of IT, GIS and Internet policies that are technically and administratively coherent, and that will smoothly accommodate future expansions; GIS and Spatial data management architectures; and assessment / designs for business intelligence solutions.
Database Management Services include Data Modeling, Database Design & Development, Data Automation & Migration and Data Management & Maintenance for your geo-database. In addition our team provides consulting and implementation services to integrate business and spatial data. Our knowledge of the industries we serve provides our customers with experience that address executive, operational performance and field automation needs.
Custom Development - Rolta has a unique team of resources that are experienced in the latest technologies to provide integration to legacy applications and develop tailored work processes to meet unique organizational needs. Our custom development services are based upon some of the same technologies that are used in our software products, so you can receive the added benefit or Rolta’s configurability and enterprise integration innovations.
Implementation and Training services are tailored to meet the specific needs of our customers, from initial departmental spatial applications to enterprise GIS solutions. Our highly experienced and professional implementation teams work on a global basis to support specific needs including installation and configuration, enterprise systems integration, performance and scalability testing and training.
Approach
Our implementation provides tangible results, quickly. Our implementation methodology includes:
- Business problem definition - Rolta has developed standard templates to define business problems to help an enterprise implement our Geospatial Fusion Solutions.
- Analysis of existing business systems and information - Business problem definition leads to identification of the existing business systems and key information needed to incorporate into the solutions strategy.
- Rapid prototype development - The configurability of Geospatial Fusion Solutions support rapid deployments and continued adaptation to changing work processes.
- Development and deployment of solutions - Rolta domain experts use results from the prototype application to quickly build the needed functionality and provide required integration.
- Testing and Quality Assurance - Provisions are made in collaboration with end users to test the application and ensure the training for uses, administrators and developers.
Business Value
Rolta remains focused on how our technology is used within organizations to achieve real value. Cross functional spatial solutions can make the difference in understanding end consumer preferences, operational performance, competitive landscape, operational risks and service and product quality.
Technical View
Technical Issues
Typical approaches to enterprise spatial system integration are inflexible and require on-going consultant support to make changes required by business conditions. Conversely, simple solutions do not provide enterprise class integration with the backbone of strong security. It is certainly difficult to find a provider that has both the breadth of technical expertise and the domain knowledge required to implement an enterprise wide solution.
Solution Components
Rolta provides Spatial Consulting, Enterprise IT Architecture, Design and Integration, Database Management, Custom Development, Implementation and Training services. Please contact us for specifics on how these services can be leveraged to meet your needs.
We are also well known for building custom solutions for clients who want to utilize spatial components, such as an address or location of an asset, inherent in their data. We are also specialists in Geographic Technology Integration using these skills to fully integrate GIS into all aspects of your business creating a truly unique enterprise system united by a spatial interface. Our Custom Application Development services include:
- Systems Requirements Specifications
- Web Applications Design and Development
- Services Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- OnPoint™ Integration with Business Systems
Our team of developers have specialized skills in:
- Object Oriented Technologies
- Services Oriented Architecture
- Database Management Systems
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- Spatial Databases
- Oracle Spatial
- ArcSDE
- OGC Compliant Solutions
Implementation
Our approach, as identified in the Management View is intended to complement the technical strengths of your organization. If you need the technical expertise to architect the solution, Rolta can help with some of the best experts in the business. If you are looking for an implementation team to work with you on-site, Rolta can provide experienced personnel. If you are looking for achieving a significant cost advantage, Rolta can provide global sourcing options. If you need a turn-key solution, Rolta is ready to engage.
We have both the technical expertise in IT applications such as ERP, Business Intelligence, Sharepoint, Oracle and Microsoft technologies as well a deep technical understanding of ESRI and spatial technologies. This IT and Spatial expertise has been grown for over 20 years.
How Does it Fit and Why is it Different?
The technical architecture of our Geospatial Fusion Solutions reduces the need for custom solutions development in order to make complex inter-operability achievable via wizard-based configuration of services to achieve enterprise integration. However, we do offer custom development where our solutions need to be embedded at the application layer with other solutions built on a different platform. Our value to customers also extends to our training services. We provide onsite and public training which gives our clients complete knowledge of how to administer our Geospatial Fusion Solutions to include how to design and configure new applications using our solution. Typically, our clients are proficient in all aspects of solution administration with our 1 week training course.
