Your SpotOn the IBM Cognos Edge

SpotOn's Vantage solution was recently featured in the IBM thought leadership whitepaper:

Data governance for geographical information systems.

Check out page 17 (figure 5) and page 18.  Thanks to IBM for featuring SpotOn as thought leaders.  Our customers on the GBI journey agree as well!

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Hello all,

Apologies, it has been a while since our last update in the GBI blog - the marketing department keeps reminding that October was a long time ago.  Seems we (probably I) have been too busy with our "SpotOn Vantage World Tour 2009-10".  Rock On! (enterprise software style).

Highlights from the past 6 months:

• Webinar: Introduction to GBI
• IBM Information on Demand (IOD) Conference in Las Vegas
• Awarding of the IBM CTO Innovation award at IOD
• Sponsoring of IBM Cognos Performance Events:
  • Washington DC; Toronto; Los Angeles; Boston; Chicago
• Speaking at the ESRI Canada User Conference (see related post re: when the audience know more...)
• Newly minted ESRI Partnership: Developer and Reseller
• Webinar: Integrating Maps into IBM Cognos
• Exhibiting with IBM at the ESRI Federal Conference in DC
• Gold Sponsor of the IBM Cognos Federal Forum in DC
• Attending the ESRI Business Partner Conference in Palm Springs (see picture)

"Seriously, I'm at a conference... I told you these GIS guys are different!"

We've had whirlwind trips to Europe, and more trips to Redlands, CA than you can shake a stick at.  We have new people in the virtual shop, a newly minted partner tearing up the UK, and our good friend Freddy is about to light up another corner of Europe (stay tuned).

Most importantly, we've delivered - and are delivering, at an accelerated pace - on the promise of achieving a complete information perspective with our customers.  Bridging the geographic and the business dimensions to deliver the complete picture.

And boy, have we learned a bunch along the way!  Looking forward to sharing. 

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In a long-winded post on the IBM Cognos Forum a couple of weeks ago, I made mention of "hardware".  Here is a photo of Darren and I procuring said hardware:

Yep, the burly guy on the left is holding the award for the 2009 IBM Cognos Global ISV Technology Partner of the Year.  This award was in recognition of the ESRI integration capabilites delivered through our SpotOn Vantage solution.

It is a tremendous honor and we are very thankful.  This year is cueing up to be a very exciting, insanely hectic, journey into the domain of location intelligence for IBM Cognos customers.  Hope to have you all aboard!

Quick note to point our a couple of recent articles in IBM Cognos newsletters highlighting SpotOn Vantage:

Location, location, location...Intelligence - published in the May 2009 edition of IBM Cognos Performance Perspectives

Integrating Interactive GIS Maps - a technical discussion published in the April 2009 edition of IBM Cognos Support Link.

You can find PDF versions of these articles here and here.

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Introducing Anastasia Valentine!  Read all about it here. 

I'm going to let Anastasia tell you what she's up to at SpotOn.  Drop her a hello in the comments, or email her at anastasia.valentine@spotonsystems.com.

Feel free to refer to her as SpotOn's Inflection Point!