Corporate GIS for the Welsh Government has won a prestigious Innovation & Best Practice Award from the Association of Geographic Information. The AGI awards identify and encourage best practice, innovation and maximum use of geographic information. The 2011 award is a result of an investment program in technology and skills that is now delivering a powerful suite of geospatial tools to support decision making across Welsh Government. Technology from Envitia is used to provide the Welsh Government’s Spatial Data Infrastructure which underpins their Corporate Geographic Information System (GIS). “It is excellent to see the team at the Welsh Government win the innovation award” says Stuart Massey, Account Manager, who attended the awards ceremony. “It is a fantastic achievement and demonstrates the successful implementation of leading edge geospatial technologies. It is exciting to see innovative solutions delivering tangible government cost savings.” Envitia supply the Welsh Government with technology based on open standards to create a set of “plug and play” services. The underlying web services provide a framework to allow the rapid construction of spatial applications both inside and outside the organization. The Welsh Government has stated that the Corporate GIS has generated significant efficiencies in the first year.Link to the AGI Awards page

Envitia is launching the next generation of MapLink Pro and introducing the most powerful and flexible version of the tool kit to date. With the release of MapLink Pro 7.0 Envitia delivers on its commitment to provide continued enhancements to the Core SDK and Modules. MapLink Pro 7.0 pushes the envelope of visualization performance and continues to increase the usability and effectiveness of mapping applications. Featuring over 400 enhancements to both the Windows and Linux platforms, MapLink Pro 7.0 provides high performance and flexible components for the most demanding geospatial systems. MapLink Pro takes advantage of modern 64-bit hardware and utilises multi-threading to boost performance by up to 60%. MapLink Pro 7.0 maintains the unrivalled disparate data integration and extensive file format support of all previous releases and extends this with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant Web Processing Services (WPS). Envitia are at the forefront of development of Spatial Data Infrastructure systems delivery; through the support of open standards and web services MapLink Pro 7.0 opens up opportunities for developers to maximise high performance Service Oriented applications. “In a rapidly changing world MapLink Pro 7.0 is designed for performance and agility,” says Sharon Cooper, Director, at Envitia. “MapLink Pro 7.0 marks a major release for the product and ensures continued success for our customers in today’s demanding operational environments.” MapLink Pro has more than 7000 deployed systems worldwide and is the geospatial toolkit of choice for the world’s leading System and Technology Integrators.

In a Geoconnexion article Dr. Gobe Hobona, Dr. Bruce A. Callander and Steve Little describe how the Ministry of Defense has extended UK GEMINI 2.1 to improve metadata interoperability In the emerging digital economy, unprecedented amounts of geospatial data are being collected through traditional surveying, global navigation satellite systems, remote sensing and online crowd sourcing, and as a side effect of other activities. Enabling government agencies to efficiently and effectively acquire geospatial data is crucial to achieving cost savings while improving public services, and one key element of this is consistent metadata availability. Metadata is data about data. By providing descriptive information about data, metadata can facilitate data discovery and help avoid needless re-collection, thereby leading to improved data availability and reduction in the use of valuable collection resources. Consequentially, metadata can help reduce the cost of data provision. Through the UK Location Program, the UK has adopted UK GEMINI 2.1 as a standard. It is envisioned that organizations that have been using other metadata standards will migrate to UK GEMINI 2.1. This article describes how, by profiling the international standard ISO 19115, the UK Ministry of Defense (MoD) has extended UK GEMINI 2.1 to develop the MoD Geospatial Metadata Profile (MGMP). The full article can be read Here

General Dynamics Canada and Envitia have renewed their longstanding partnership to perform ongoing research and development in next-generation tactical surveillance solutions for defense and aerospace applications. Building on the success of a 10-year partnership, the two companies will continue working together to deliver integrated tactical data management and digital mapping solutions to defense and aerospace customers worldwide. Among the products of this partnership is General Dynamics Canada’s Tactical Integrated Sensor Information System (TISIS) which uses Envitia’s MapLink Pro to create a powerful surveillance solution for military aircraft. TISIS is currently integrated into helicopters that are part of the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Program, along with other airborne global surveillance platforms worldwide. Engineered by General Dynamics Canada, TISIS provides robust capability and flexibility to collect and present a wide range of situational awareness data gathered by the aircraft’s sensor systems. Information from radar, electro-optics, electronic support measures, acoustics and magnetic anomaly detector subsystems and other sensors is displayed on a digital map, which can be easily configured to meet the needs of mission personnel in-flight. The capabilities of TISIS are the direct result of ongoing research, development and innovation by General Dynamics Canada. Based on commercial off-the-Shelf (COTS) components, the system collects and combines powerful information along with data management tools in a cost-effective system that is easily adapted for use on fixed and rotary wing aircraft. Envitia’s MapLink Pro is a component-based software development kit for the management and display of geospatial and live track data. It was specifically designed for application developers across the defense and security industry. MapLink Pro enables developers to quickly build high-performance mapping systems for a variety of field applications, including command control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, mission planning, simulation and training. General Dynamics Canada, a premier provider of defense electronic systems and a leading systems integrator of complete Command, Control, Communication, Computing, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) solutions, is a part of General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). For information about General Dynamics Canada please go to www.gdcanada.com.

Robin Parrish has recently joined Envitia as Business Development Manager and will be based in the US office in Reston, VA. As part of the growing sales team, Robin will focus on the Defense and Security market in North America. Before joining Envitia Robin spent 8 years at eSpatial. Robin was appointed as the VP of Business Development to eSpatial and over the 8 year period developed partnerships for eSpatial in the USA, Canada, Brazil and South Africa. During this period he successfully sold Geospatial solutions into many verticals including US DOD, federal, state and city governments and utilities. Robin also spent 4 years at Oracle and was responsible for both business development and technical sales support for the Oracle Spatial product. Robin served 25 years in the South African Defense Force and on leaving was in the post of Senior Staff Officer Landward Mapping and was responsible for establishing geoinformation system that supported all arms of service. Robin was also the founding president of the Geoinformation Society of Southern Africa, represented South Africa at the ISO Geographic Standards Technical Committee. "Robin brings a wealth of experience in Geospatial solutions to the team. His understanding of how Geospatial technology can be applied in the Defense and Security markets will be an invaluable asset to our customers.” said Matthew Perrin, Head of Sales. “We are delighted that Robin has joined our team".

Envitia is pleased to announce that as part of the MOSIA consortium, they have been accepted as an Associate Partner of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program.  This work aims to provide the technological dimension to the Single European Sky (SES) Initiative, a high-performance air traffic control infrastructure in Europe enabling the safe and environmentally friendly development of air transport.

Envitia will again be exhibiting at the RUSI Future Maritime Operations conference to be held at the Banqueting House, Whitehall over 6th and 7th July. The theme of the conference “The Utility of Navies in an Interconnected World”  is a perfect environment in which to demonstrate the Maritime Information Assimilation and Management capabilities of Envitia’s Technology and expertise. The UKHO DMarGS capability is a prime example of how Envitia is supporting the interconnected Navy User in a dynamic situation, providing up to date Geospatial Intelligence to those that need it.

In September 2010, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and the Center for Geospatial Science (CGS), University of Nottingham signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) for the establishment of an Open Source Geospatial Lab (OSGL) and to develop collaboration opportunities for academia, industry and government organizations in open source GIS software and data in the UK. The MoU provides for the establishment of a research laboratory for supporting the development of open-source geospatial software technologies, training and expertise. The MoU also provides for provision of internship opportunities for high quality students.

Philip Lear has recently joined Envitia in the Sales department to provide additional support for our data harmonising and impact assessment services to Government and Utilities.

Envitia will be showcasing the latest MapLink technology at ITEC 2011 in Cologne, May 10th - 12th.  Envitia will be demonstrating solutions allowing geospatial information to be used quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively.  Envitia’s MapLink technology, already deployed in more than 7,000 operational systems worldwide, supports the discovery, integration, visualization and exploitation of geospatial information from disparate sources across multiple systems.  Our customers can buy geospatial information once and use it many times.

Envitia is illustrating the advantages gained through the deployment of automated geospatial services to a range of Government and related customers at HOSDB, in Farnborough, March 22nd-24th.  Our integrated geospatial solutions are particularly relevant in these challenging times when disasters and emergencies seem more frequent and involve many organizations, each with a valuable contribution to make.  The common problem is access to and coordination of, not only critical personnel and resources, but as importantly the critical information that allows them to be deployed rapidly and effectively.

The ability to share accurate and up-to-date information has become the defining characteristic of successful 21st century organizations. Having access to ‘one version of the truth’ is key to the success of all engineering based organizations.  With this in mind, today’s industry leaders are no longer content to ask ‘What are my assets?’ Instead, they want to know ‘Where are they?’, ‘What can they do for me today?’ and ‘How can I maximise the return on my investment from them? ’

Envitia is pleased to announce the launch of new GeoIntelligence web services which provide the most recent platform for solutions across defense, government, utilities and transport.  Based upon the proven architecture components of the Envitia Core Technology combined with application specific components from the other product ranges such as Envitia MapLink,  ChartLink, MapRite and Cutlas, these services form the core of the most recent deployments to Northrup Grumman for Brunei, Siemens for Welsh Assembly Government and for the UKHO geo-portal product delivery.

Envitia is pleased to announce the launch of new GeoIntelligence web services which provide the most recent platform for solutions across defense, government, utilities and transport.  Based upon the proven architecture components of the Envitia Core Technology combined with application specific components from the other product ranges such as Envitia MapLink,  ChartLink, MapRite and Cutlas, these services form the core of the most recent deployments to Northrup Grumman for Brunei, Siemens for Welsh Assembly Government and for the UKHO geo-portal product delivery.

Envitia is pleased to announce that Dr Gobe Hobona has joined Envitia as a Technical Consultant. He will be part of Envitia’s growing consultancy team supporting business development, sales, engineering and other operations across the company. Gobe holds a PhD in Geomatics with a thesis on “Wed-based Discovery and Dissemination of Multidimensional Geographic Information”. Most recently, he was a researcher at the Center for Geospatial Science (CGS) within the University of Nottingham. While at CGS, he led multiple work packages on the INSPIRE-based GIS4EU project, developing complete processes for harmonising data. He was also involved in the GIGAS project as a contractor to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), providing expertise on the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). In addition to the OGC, he also provided consultancy to Lockheed Martin on the Common Geospatial Tool Set (CGTS) program. After completing his PhD, Gobe worked as researcher at the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences within Newcastle University.  His research at Newcastle University focused on integrating OGC web services within Grid computing platforms using business workflow technology. Gobe has more than 20 publications on geospatial topics such as spatial data infrastructure, location based services, geospatial cloud computing and ontologies.  

Envitia has released a new exciting addition to the product family allowing the automated ingest and update of large geospatial datasets, removing the need for manual data update and management.  Automation of data update ensures accuracy, currency and reproducibility which are key to maintaining best user experience and value from geospatial solutions.  Fully integrated with both our MapLink Pro product and the new Envitia GI Web Services the Envitia SDMS provides support for over 200 data formats specialised for the defense and security domain.

Envitia will be showcasing the latest MapLink technology at I/ITSEC 2010 in Orlando, Florida between 29 November and 2 December.  We will be demonstrating solutions allowing geospatial information to be used quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively.  Envitia’s MapLink technology, already deployed in more than 7,000 operational systems worldwide, supports the discovery, integration, visualization and exploitation of geospatial information from disparate sources across multiple systems.  Our customers can buy geospatial information once and use it many times.  Envitia already provides expertise on geospatial architectures and solutions for a range of significant defense users with research, consultancy and deployed applications. Working with partners we offer comprehensive geospatial intelligence services to operational forces.

Envitia will be exhibiting new products and services at the Emergency Services Show 2010 at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry on November 24th and 25th.  Our integrated geospatial solutions are particularly relevant in these challenging times when disasters and emergencies seem more frequent and involve many organizations, each with a valuable contribution to make.  The common problem is access to and coordination of, not only critical personnel and resources, but as importantly the critical information that allows them to be deployed rapidly and effectively.

The Envitia team has been active within Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for many years participating on working groups and demonstration initiatives.  Envitia took responsibility for architecting the Aviation Portrayal Service cluster, which involved 8 vendor’s technologies and a significant amount of information modelling. The result was an Aviation Portrayal Engineering report, with Envitia as the Editor, and contributions from many vendors.  This document is published on the OGC website, and public videos illustrating a chosen scenario have been made available, Open Geospatial Consortium.

Envitia has recently launched a blog site where interesting articles, news items and thoughts are being posted.  Find us at http://blog.envitia.com.  We are engaged in a varied range of professional and consultative roles across numerous applications in the geospatial industry, and are taking the opportunity to publish some of our thoughts and experiences through this blog.  Latest posts include a review of Envitia’s participation in OGC Web Service initiatives, our experience at a Emergency Services show in London and the recent visit to our offices by Rt Hon Francis Maude.  Other exciting posts on crowd sourcing and thoughts on the future of the geospatial industry already make this an interesting and thought provoking site.

Envitia had the pleasure of a visit from the Cabinet Office Minister, the Rt Hon Francis Maude on Friday 30th July.  As the local MP, Francis expressed interest in Envitia as a growing business and the Envitia team took the opportunity to provide an overview of activities and recent successes.

Envitia has been selected, by Northrop Grumman UK, to supply the Geographic Information and spatial data management components of the Joint Operations Center Command and Control for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces (RBAF).

Envitia is pleased to announce a new enhanced version of its market leading spatial data quality suite, MapRite. 

Envitia will be showcasing the latest MapLink technology at ITEC 2010 at ExCel in London, May 18th - 20th.  Envitia will be demonstrating solutions allowing geospatial information to be used quickly, flexibly and cost-effectively.  Envitia’s MapLink technology, already deployed in more than 4,000 operational systems worldwide, supports the discovery, integration, visualization and exploitation of geospatial information from disparate sources across multiple systems.  Our customers can buy geospatial information once and use it many times. 

Envitia is launching the next generation of MapLink Pro and introducing the most powerful and flexible version of the tool kit to date.  By embracing Open Standards and enhancing interoperability, this release demonstrates Envitia's commitment to the latest technologies, delivering further benefit to our customers by reducing overheads and helping with the delivery of the best solutions in the most cost effective manner.Featuring over 1200 enhancements, MapLink Pro 6.0 includes exciting new functionality to bring our customers enhanced capabilities while maintaining the high performance and unrivalled disparate data integration of all previous releases.  Boosting interoperability, MapLink Pro now provides both Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant WFS client facilities and OGC GML ingest/creation support.  With additional comprehensive spatial database integration and our existing accredited OGC WMS, MapLink Pro now offers the building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructure solutions, soon to include catalog/registry, feature portrayal, geocoding and gazetteer services. Creating a 3D Situational Awareness display which mirrors the information available to the user in 2D is increasingly becoming a demand in C4ISR applications.  MapLink Pro 6.0 satisfies this requirement with significant performance and functional improvements to our 3D architectures.  Multiple 3D drawing surfaces, higher resolution imagery support and exposure to the developer of additional controls all results in enhanced 3D display capability.  The drawing of both OpenGL and WMS layers on top of a 3D surface also adds a more dynamic element to the applications.

Envitia’s new integrated geospatial solutions are particularly relevant in these challenging times when disasters and emergencies seem more frequent and involve many organizations, each with a valuable contribution to make.  The common problem is access to and coordination of, not only critical personnel and resources, but as importantly the critical information that allows them to be deployed rapidly and effectively.

Envitia and Snowflake Software announce a strategic partnership for the provision of end to end INSPIRE services. The partnership offers a formidable solution to organizations with commitments to publish and share geospatial data. Snowflake’s established transformation and download services coupled with Envitia’s discovery, view and market leading data quality management and cleansing products offers a unique, joined up solution that serves the complete needs of the INSPIRE community.  By combining experience, customers can take advantage of the security of proven solutions which remain totally open through our commitment to standards.  In addition, continued engagement with standards and accreditation organizations means customers benefit from the latest and ‘best of breed’ technology.

Envitia is pleased to announce a new member of the growing consultancy team, Alex Brooker.  Alex’s expertise in the development and deployment of spatial data infrastructure solutions adds further experienced resource in this area where our new services based geospatial products are being successfully adopted.Alex joined Envitia from BAE Systems Insyte where he lead the SOA and virtualisation technology research in the creation of the Common Information System Infrastructure (CISI) – a plug and play component based SOA with full Spatial Data Infrastructure capability for use across the BAE Systems businesses.  Alex has a strong background in geospatial software in the maritime domain, leading the delivery of the chart software embedded within in Combat Management Systems used across the entire Royal Navy fleet, supporting the display of ENC and AML data to the warfighter. He also led the SOA element of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter UK de-risking activities undertaken at the Maritime Integration and Support Center in Portsmouth, UK.Most recently, Alex has been supporting Envitia’s activities under the Common Geospatial Tool Set research program, alongside his role as a trusted technical adviser within a NATO technical panel investigating the use and discovery of services within disadvantaged grids.

Envitia is actively looking to recruit talented and skilful individuals to join the Company. Our employees are given opportunities to achieve their full potentials. We recognise and reward our employees achievements and performance. Envitia has good employment policies and practices in place and offers a unique advantage of Senior Managers and Directors working closely with the workforce. There are excellent career prospects within the Company which employees are encouraged to pursue.

Envitia has been awarded a contract from the UK MOD looking at Information Management in support of Improvised Explosive Device incidences in theater.  Information stored in a number of separate systems will be brought together into a harmonised data model and delivered to existing systems in Afghanistan, using OGC compliant Web Services.  This is building on work Envitia has undertaken for the MOD for the GI2RA (Geospatial Intelligence Integrated Reference Architecture) project.

Envitia has been awarded a contract from NATO HQ SACT – “Contractor Support for Enhanced Releasability of Geospatial Products”.  This work requires Envitia to liaise with the DGIWG and MIP communities to cross-map features and attributes of the JC3IEDM catalog to features and attributes of the DFDD/ NGFDD data catalog, this will enable overlaps and differences between the two catalogs to be understood.  This work includes the creation of use-cases to identify where differences between feature catalogs are greatest.

Envitia will be exhibiting at Civil Contingencies, 2010 at the QEII Center London, January 26th.  Our new integrated geospatial solutions are particularly relevant in these challenging times when disasters and emergencies seem more frequent and involve many organizations, each with a valuable contribution to make.  The common problem is access to and coordination of, not only critical personnel and resources, but as importantly the critical information that allows them to be deployed rapidly and effectively.

Envitia-ITS was a huge hit at Traffex 09. The 25,000m² Hall 5 at the National Exhibition Center hosted Traffex, Streetex and Parkex- three complementary shows running in parallel all related to traffic management. The 5m x 6m Envitia stand was showing not only the top-selling CUTLAS-UTMC but also launching two striking initiatives in partnership with Comtrol and Parkeon. 

Dave Stoner has been appointed chair of the UTMC Development Group’s Specifications and Standards Group. The UTMC development group (UDG) is responsible for managing the technical content within the UTMC public specifications on behalf of users, suppliers and the Department for Transport. The UDG Management Group who made the appointment, recognised that Dave’s substantial experience over many years in intelligent transport systems and public transport information systems meant he was particularly well-equipped for this important role. For further information please contact cutlass@envitia.com.

In August 2008 TENET Technology were part of Team SPARTA who were selected to conduct the UK Ministry of Defense’s Common Geospatial Tool Set (CGTS) Phase 2 Research Project. 

TENET’s MapRite PAI has been purchased to improve and maintain the accuracy of Scottish Borders Council spatial data, following the introduction of the PAI program by the Ordnance Survey.

The Borough of Poole captures and maintains a definitive BLPU dataset using TENET’s MapRite Capture Tool. 

TENET's MapLink Pro geospatial development toolkit becomes one of the first products to achieve compliance against the OpenGIS® Web Map Service (WMS) Implementation Specification, Version 1.3.0.

TENET is pleased to announce the latest release of its map development toolkit. MapLink Pro 5.4 contains a host of new capabilities, with enhanced SDKs and new interfaces.

TENET introduces their CUTLAS-Congestion-KPI Package.   A package delivering traffic and congestion information supporting Road Pricing and adaptive congestion charging measures.

TENET has recently secured a large contract with Scottish Power for the management, correction and transfer of both raster and vector asset data sets into a newly commissioned GIS. A prototype system has already been validated and proven to meet the operational needs of the business. 

TENET’s MapRite Users and prospects will be the first to view the latest product in the MapRite suite at the MapRite User Group on 19th February at the Ordnance Survey headquarters in Southampton.

TENET MapRite web forum provides a dynamic interactive communication tool for MapRite users

Fanfares and fountains of  IKEA-yellow glitter heralded the first city center IKEA store’s opening in Coventry City Center

TENET is awarded MoD contract to investigate opportunities in the European Union’s Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) Directive.

TENET CUTLAS-UTMC leads the way with new Web Forum for the CUTLAS User Community

TENET MapRite provides the most cost effective PAI solution to High Peak Borough Council

Poole Borough Council has selected TENET’s MapRite solution to achieve both Positional Accuracy Improvement and Real World change of its spatial data.

TENET Technology partner with BKS Surveys to provide an automated PAI solution for Countryside Council for Wales

TENET is awarded GEOINT INTEGRATED REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE (GI²RA) Research Project by MoD

TENET Technology Ltd, a leader in spatial information systems and services to Central and Local Government, Utilities, Defense and Security, announce the launch of its new web site www.tenettechnology.com.

TENET Technology has been actively involved in UK MoD’s Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007 (CWID07).

Darren Capes of City of York Council was elected as Chairman of The CUTLAS-UTMC User Group (CUG) during the meeting held  on Wednesday 13th June at the prestigious Council Chambers courtesy of Devon County Council.

Open Spatial will be the master distributor of TENET’s MapRite Positional Accuracy Improvement solution in Australia and New Zealand.

TENET is pleased to announce the appointment of Bill Hodson as Sales Director