Streamline Your Field Operations Program with Modern Mobile Mapping

What are the future trends in GIS technology? How do these fit into my line of business? What are the best ways to integrate my ERP and EAM systems to modern GIS? How can the power of these systems go out to the field, even while offline??

Welcome to Locana Lounge. In this series, the Locana team shares insights, market trends, and best practices for all things GIS, integration, and field mapping to help organizations better leverage the power of modern mapping in all aspects of what they do.?

Today’s Locana Lounge topic: How to streamline your field program using modern mobile mapping.??

Workers today need focused, user-friendly, offline-powered mobile mapping capabilities to get a full picture of work to complete and on which assets. This goes beyond a simple location pin. Network connectivity, asset characteristics, and GIS data editing and redlining are just a few of the advanced needs of field workers.?

Many of the solutions on the market address a single use case, or they miss major functionality requirements. This leaves the field team doing manual entry or guesswork which leads to inefficiencies and stress for workers. Plus, when organizations have high counts of single-use-case apps, it leads to large-scale data translation. These translations take the form of middleware, spreadsheet imports, or physical paperwork for data updates to the system of record.??

What this means for the business is extra cost, reduced worker efficiency, data latency, and most alarming, data fidelity risks.?

Today, the Lemur team explores a more holistic solution using modern mobile mapping. Modern mobile mapping takes an enterprise approach and leverages platforms, tools, and features already in place. It considers the deeper business need and proposes integration that natively hooks into the GIS. And, it transitions work back and forth with the ERP or field service app that organizations already have available to their field teams.?

Tune in and learn more about the challenges and risk facing the market today, and how the right solution solves this from an enterprise perspective.?

?Locana has decades of industry experience ranging from utilities to commercial software to social benefit blended with decades of technical experience from GIS to ERP to open source cloud architecture. We’re excited to share our stories to accelerate the success of organizations hoping to leverage these tools and techniques.?