Budget pressures, changing policies, and an aging technological infrastructure have made collaboration, communication, and cost-savings in today’s public sector more difficult. Public sector managers are being pulled in different directions: they are tasked with improving data management, analysis, and overall organizational communication while simultaneously cutting costs and delivering clear value to their constituency.

 

How the Virtual Earth Platform Meets Those Challenges

The Virtual Earth platform can help you plan, predict, and respond quickly and efficiently. This flexible, accessible data-visual platform can help your organization effectively analyze the overwhelming amount of data that flows through its doors daily.

 

With Virtual Earth, your public sector organization can visualize and analyze data from multiple databases and share it with other agencies or with the public. The insights you gain from these data visualizations can then be extended to your decision making process, which can help you cut costs and achieve the goals set by your organization.

 

Typical Applications

Here are a few ways your public sector agency can use the features and functionality of the Virtual Earth platform:

• Make agency locations more discoverable for users with detailed maps, 3D capabilities, and driving directions.
• Create disaster management solutions that can coordinate federal, state, and local agency resources and reports to track disease outbreaks, respond to weather events, and help manage other disasters.
• Manage real-time data updates from multiple information sources to keep agencies connected and organized.
• Manage data streams and information updates using GeoRSS feeds to view a wide range of data sources, including census data or health information.

 

Benefits

A Virtual Earth implementation can help both your organization and your customers realize multiple advantages:

• Enhance end-user collaboration by providing the ability to share location-relevant information and organizational data through maps, detailed imagery, and annotation tools.
• Maximize travel efficiency for employees by offering multipoint routing.
• Incorporate third-party data, such as traffic and weather information, to provide rich visual resources.
• Tighten mobile asset and personnel management by implementing data visualization solutions that integrate with RFID tracking or GPS technology.
• Streamline operations and save resources for other important business needs since Virtual Earth requires minimal IT involvement or infrastructure improvements. Then use tools like MapCruncher and the Virtual Earth interactive SDK, which can help expedite developer ramp-up time.

 

 

 

 

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