Location Centre Key Features and Benefits

Key Features

Hosted service: cost effective, simple deployment, certified security, reliability, availability and scalability.
Web-based: flexible, straightforward and widespread access to a wide range of GIS tools, applications and map datasets.
GIS features: powerful functions to discover, query, view, analyse and report on location-based information throughout your organisation.
Extendible functionality: targeted business solutions are available.
Open data: contains the most popular and industry specialised Ordnance Survey OpenDataTM.  
Centrally managed data store: providing up-to-date mapping, enhanced data security, and improved information exchange.
Dedicated service desk: supporting customers to ensure easy deployment and to realise the best return on investment.
Open access: provides the capability to share information more effectively with your customers.
Fully integrated metadata: standards-compliant metadata ensures practical benefits that enable the delivery of improved information exchange.
INSPIRE: our approach has been awarded the Certificate of Excellence by eSDI-Net+ and provides a platform for public services achieving INSPIRE compliance.

Key Benefits

Save costs: dramatically reduce the requirement and overheads associated with your own GIS infrastructure.
Increase operational efficiency:  identify and re-engineer or improve existing business processes, saving time, costs or avoiding unnecessary spend.
Improve decision making: improve the planning, targeting, performance and management of resources through more informed, evidence-based decisions.
Improve business intelligence
: integrate your business data and unlock the power to visualise, interrogate and communicate your data in new and easily understood ways.
Reduce risk: remove the risks associated with IT configuration management, system availability and support.
Manage costs: known and certain revenue costs, with minimal/no capital costs involved.
Improve scalability: provides you with the flexibility to increase or decrease users, data volumes etc. in line with demand without the need to purchase IT capacity or software licences you may not need.
Increase resilience: with no reliance on systems availability at your local offices, your data and solution can be accessed by any of your staff wherever they plug in their laptop or other device.
Greater flexibility: quickly and easily deployed, extending access to your users with minimal overheads and providing a solution that regularly introduces new facilities and features.

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