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Once an enterprise has spatially enabled their data via
the Localligence Spatial Platform (LSP), they are now ready
to begin integrating location intelligence solutions into
their applications. These applications can be existing
applications that are used across the enterprise, or new
applications that are custom built specifically to leverage
the functionality and visualization capabilities provided by
the LSP. The following section talks about these two types
of integration, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of
each approach and describing under what scenarios a company
may prefer one type of implementation versus another.
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Application
integration is where location intelligence functionality is
incorporated into an existing enterprise application. For
example, a company may be using BI applications from SAP,
Business Objects, Cognos or Hyperion and may want to leverage spatial
information by incorporating the visualization capabilities
provided by the Localligence Spatial Platform. Under such an
integration Localligence is operating behind the scenes and
the user, in most cases, is unaware that this new
functionality is being driven by a separate product. In
fact, as far as the user is concerned, and application
integration is a seamless experience where the application
they are using maintains it's look and feel. The advantage
of such integrations is that they are often faster to
integrate than custom built applications and tend to have a
lower learning curve for new users as they only leverage
certain types of functionality.
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Custom Built Applications |
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Custom built
applications are software products that are built
specifically to a customer's specifications and
requirements. To end users these are considered new
applications and are built predominantly around the
Localligence Spatial Platform (LSP). These applications
perform critical tasks and are often on the desktops of a
select number of users whose job revolves around data mining
and understanding business performance
and operational efficiencies. The advantages of a custom
built application is that it is designed to focus primarily
on performing location intelligence functions making it very
feature rich. As such it often has a steeper learning curve
than an integrated application.
The
following is a screen shot from Localligence's demo
application which has been designed to showcase some of the key functionality
and visualization techniques offered by location intelligence.
Generally custom applications tend to differ in look and
feel from this demo application, but most include some or
all of the features highlighted by the question marks.
Clicking on each question mark provides a more detailed
description of that feature. (Check out our
Solutions section
to see other examples of location intelligence in action.)
Note: Click on each
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to learn more about that specific feature.
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