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interview jd geospatial disciplines and domains define the standards that allow sensor systems and software to operate. in our rapidly expanding industry, there is a growing need for standards-based geospatial data management and delivery solutions. as a strategic member of the ogc and actively involved in the iso, erdas proves its commitment to interoperability. erdas is part of the ogc technical committee, planning committee, europe group and various iso tc211 committees. additionally, erdas is continually enhancing the company's technological developments to provide more extensive enterprise solutions to the larger marketplace. erdas is actively involved in helping define and establish standards and specifications for sensor modeling, geo-processing, web delivery and enterprise data management. jt: if i was an organization responsible for collecting, surveying, processing, analyzing and publishing geospatial information for a certain country or region and if i had an official mandate to make my data available through a web geoportal how could you best help me with erdas technologies? jd erdas offers interoperable geospatial business systems that allow an organization to build, implement and maintain a comprehensive spatial data infrastructure (sdi). this assumes that data is being dynamically produced and subsequently cataloged and web service enabled, disseminating data made available through discovery services. this allows users within and outside an organization to securely find and retrieve necessary information they need from the sdi. all of this is possible by making contents of an sdi available through an open extensive geospatial environment. technologies offer an interoperable solution for the entire lifecycle of building and maintaining an sdi. as data is produced by erdas imagine and lps, it can be cataloged and the metadata harvested and centrally stored so users can securely discover the information they need. using erdas apollo, customers have the ability to build an sdi and the geo-portal that would enable discovery and delivery of the information. erdas opments have introduced a growing number of interoperable, platform agnostic geospatial solutions. these technological advancements allow an organization to maximize the effectiveness of their existing business system. erdas provides solutions that integrate the geospatial component into a business system, giving organizations the ability to transform data into geospatial information. by incorporating standards-based interoperability, data is seamlessly integrated. as the data progresses from authoring to delivery, the value of the information also increases, from captured source content to information providing valuable decision support. jt: among other erdas well known products there are erdas titan, erdas image web server and erdas aplollo server. what capabilities and services do they provide and what are the main common points and crucial differences between them? jd erdas apollo, erdas titan and erdas image web server are all enterprise solutions, each focusing on different areas of managing, connecting and delivering geospatial information. erdas apollo is about securely managing data within an organization, including discovering, describing, cataloging and serving data into a variety of web and rich client applications throughout the enterprise. jt: how can adding the geospatial value to the data of such companies become useful in their decision-making processes? which are those specific components and capabilities built-into geospatial business systems that are most useful in this regard? jd incorporating geospatial information into the large quantities of existing data an organization maintains adds immense value. maturing standards and improvements in web services, data compression, metadata standards, delivery and processing power are bringing geospatial data exploitation to the enterprise, making this technology readily available to non-traditional geospatial businesses. organizations integrating geospatial technology are more equipped to manage their data and storage, with new tools to automate, extract, collaborate and share their information. by incorporating geospatial technology into an existing business system, vast quantities of data become useable information, fully equipped to serve an organization crossdepartmentally and in the b2b context. the enterprise is fully utilized, providing useful information for a broad range of decision-making processes. joc triglav jtriglav@geoinformatics.com is editor of geoinformatics. for more information on erdas, have a look at www.erdas.com. erdas titan is a powerful geospatial data sharing infrastructure that enables users to publish their top drawer data to anyone across the network, without shipping gigabytes of data in a bandwidth intensive manner. the ability to quickly discover and visualize what collaborators within a community of interest are doing is critical for an organization to be nimble and address issues in a time dominant manner. jt: geospatial technology capabilities are increasing constantly enabling more organizations outside the traditional geospatial customer base to jump on this train seeking the best possibilities to integrate geospatial technology into their organization s existing enterprise business system. how can erdas assist these users in the process? jd previously, geospatial technologies operated in the desktop environment, or via web applications detached from other vital software packages. without interoperability, geospatial technology remained separate from other integral applications, including those associated with an organization's manufacturing, supply chain, financial, human resources and customer resource management systems. separated from geospatial applications, data spread throughout an organization could not be adequately analyzed and fully transformed into the most comprehensive and understandable information. however, recent innovations and service oriented architecture (soa) devel- image web server is a high-speed, specialized application that efficiently delivers massive amounts of geospatial imagery to thousands of users, all on a single server. solving the infrastructure congestion problems traditionally associated with deploying large amounts of image data, users quickly access the information they need. with erdas image web server, individuals may access imagery using cad, gis, mobile, web and desktop applications. erdas latest news? 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