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ALSO CALLED: GPS Software, Geographic Information Systems Software, Mapping Software, Spatial Information Management Software, Digital Mapping Software, and Geospatial Information Management Software
DEFINITION: A GIS (geographic information system) enables you to envision the geographic aspects of a body of data. Basically, it lets you query or analyze a database and receive the results in the form of some kind of map. Since many kinds of data have important geographic aspects, a GIS can have many uses: weather forecasting, sales analysis, population forecasting, and land use planning, to name a few. In
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GIS Software White Papers
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Your request for GIS Software white papers returned limited or no results. The request has been expanded to include Applications Software white papers.
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The Development Executive’s Guide to Open Source Software Policy Implementation
sponsored by Black Duck Software
WHITE PAPER:
Black Duck provides a framework that not only allows your software development organization to benefit from open source but also allows other enterprise stakeholders—including legal, IT, security, export and purchasing personnel—to access timely and relevant information to effectively manage business risks.
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
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Seven Best Practices for Managing Software Intellectual Property in an Open Source World
sponsored by Black Duck Software
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Over the past decade, a powerful new approach to development - open source software - has risen to prominence, dramatically increasing the opportunity to re-use existing software. This report describes a set of seven best practices whose objective is to encourage development based on component re-use and software assembly.
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
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How to Increase Velocity and Value with Agile Development using Open Source
sponsored by Black Duck Software
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This whitepaper explains the advantages of reusing open source components in projects implemented by agile development teams, discusses the issues and risks that must be managed, and highlights the benefits organizations can receive by leveraging open source components.
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009
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Achieving Business Agility with Application Grid
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
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Application grid brings the same type of efficiency, scalability, and quality of service to the application layer. Discover how to get greater efficiency, exceptional agility, and superior quality of service with an application grid.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009
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Redefining the Application lifecycle: Looking beyond the Application to Align with Business Goals
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
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This paper describes the HP approach and highlights the key opportunities to reduce the risks, costs, and time required to develop, deliver, and maintain high quality applications.
Posted: 29 Dec 2008 | Published: 29 Dec 2008
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Leveraging WAN Application Delivery Solutions to Accelerate and Secure Your Software-as-a-Service Capabilities
sponsored by Blue Coat
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This whitepaper examines the business implications of the SaaS movement, the escalating performance and security expectations, and how a growing number of companies are safeguarding and accelerating these ondemand applications with proxy-based wide-area network (WAN) application delivery solutions.
Posted: 10 Mar 2008 | Published: 10 Mar 2008
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GIS SOFTWARE DEFINITION (continued): … a GIS, geographic information is described explicitly in terms of geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude or some national grid coordinates) or implicitly in terms of a street address, postal code, or forest stand identifier. A geographic information system contains the ability to translate implicit geographic data (such as a street address) into an explicit map location. GIS developers sometimes obtain the map data from public sources or companies that specialize in collecting and organizing geographic information. The process of converting implicit geographic data into explicit or … GIS Software definition sponsored by SearchSQLServer.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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