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The GEOBlog (spanish) links to a Geospatial Solutions article on the location intelligence and business. From the article: "According to the results, which were released by MapInfo and BusinessWeek on Wednesday, 64 percent of business executives believe that location intelligence can improve business processes. [...] Approximately 80 percent of data that an organization uses to make business decisions has a location-based component. [...] According to a BusinessWeek white paper that was developed from the survey results, British Telecom will realize cost savings of $41 million over the next five years as a result of implementing a location-intelligence solution for its 17,000 field service engineers."

The Geography Matters blog summarizes an article by Jack Dangermond, ESRI's president, on GIS as a new medium and the GeoWeb. From the article: "GIS is being used to model the physical and cultural knowledge of our world, breaking it down into components and subsystems, providing us with systematic knowledge, an integrative framework, analytic methods, and intuitive visualization. GIS is attractive to humans because it responds to both the cognitive as well as intuitive dimensions of understanding. GIS creates order and meaning. It is helping us define interconnections and interdependencies, and it provides a broad understanding of nature and human ecology."

Spatially Adjusted comments on Jack Dangermond's answers, ESRI's president, on ESRI software. You'll learn many interesting things about the present and future capabilities of ESRI software. The ESRI User Conference 2007 starts next Monday. From the intro: "Your input gives us insight into your interests and the direction you would like us to take. We have already made a number of strategic decisions based on your comments and we will work aggressively to focus our organization to be both responsible and responsive to your suggestions."

DUBLIN, Ireland—(BUSINESS WIRE)—January 16, 2008— Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Achieving Business Success with GIS" to their offering.

"Achieving Business Success with GIS" explores the business environment of making GIS technology successful for professional organisations using it. Unlike many other publications in the field, this is not a book about the technology per-se, rather the use of the technology to enhance businesses and provides a business-focused rationale for using spatial technologies to address real business problems. The original announcement can be read in this GIS Cafe announcement.

You can get this book from Amazon: Achieving Business Success with GIS .