For any GIS to deliver powerful business, social and environmental benefits of it must have a solid foundation in good information management. Much of the attraction of GIS lies in its interactive graphical visualisation capabilities but these capabilities are really only useful if they enable you to make better business decisions by means of either better information or better insights to good information.

We build our systems from the data up, they display a strong information management bias. ArcGIS is architected on the principles of a “model driven architecture”. This means that we encode your “business rules” in the Geodatabase and the client tier, be it on the desktop, internet or mobile device, responds to and respects those business rules.

It follows therefore that much of our work is concerned with helping our Customers build strong reliable Geodatabases that reflect their business rules and respect the business processes that either provision that Geodatabase or those that depend on its content.

ESRI Ireland uses the ESRI Inc., published methodology Designing Geodatabases to help our Customers develop Conceptual, Logical and Physical data models that offer a solid foundation for their future GIS development. Although this methodology, taken to its full conclusion, does result in a ESRI Geodatabase design we have worked with Customers who have benefited from the Conceptual and Logical design phases where the target systems are not ESRI based.

Our Consultants have completed major Information Management assignments for;

• Ordnance Survey Ireland
• Land and Property Services, Northern Ireland
• The Marine Institute, Ireland
• The Geological Survey of Ireland
• The National Roads Authority, Ireland