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New Book On Business Success With GIS

posted by Sunburned Surveyor on Monday January 21, @02:53PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
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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 *.
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