Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS - Softcover

Measuring Up: The Business Case for GIS offers case studies about companies and government agencies that have implemented GIS solutions to meet business goals and how their successes with this technology measure up in: Saving money and time; Increasing efficiency, accuracy, productivity, communication and collaboration; Generating revenue; Supporting decision making; Aiding budget development; Building information bases; Managing resources; Measuring Up presents 75 articles from 22 business sectors. They tell us not only what people around the globe are doing with GIS, but how these new business processes have improved communities and organizations.

Christopher Thomas is the government industry manager for the federal, state, and local market space at ESRI. He has been an advanced planner for the county of Riverside, California, and a demographic (urban) planner for the city of Ontario, California, where he was the GIS manager. Milton Ospina is ESRI's urban and regional planning and economic development solutions manager. He has worked for the University of New Mexico Earth Data Analysis Center. They both live in Redlands, California.