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What Experts Are Saying About Spatial, MapViewer, and Location Services

Oracle Pushes Deeper Into The Enterprise With Vertical Applications: Highlights of the Oracle Spatial Users Meeting 2008—March 19, 2008, Directions Magazine (HTML)

Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief and Vice Publisher describes how this year's presentations indicate Oracle's intent to embed spatial functionality in its own BI solutions and how partners and customers are responding by building location intelligent solutions to spatially enable specific enterprise systems.

Spatial Models for Reinsurance Applications—July 11, 2006, Directions Magazine (HTML)

Joe Francica, Editor-in-Chief, examines Guy Carpenter & Company's use of Oracle Spatial to help insurance companies develop risk management models. Guy Carpenter was recently recognized by Oracle (PDF 152KB) with its Oracle Spatial Excellence "Innovator of the Year" Award at the Oracle Spatial Special Interest Group User's Meeting.

Applying Oracle Spatial to a Very Large Insurance Problem—June 20, 2006, Location Intelligence Magazine (HTML)

Hal Reid, Senior Technical Editor for Directions Magazine and Private Consultant examines Scott Tracy and Jennifer Lemus of ISO Innovative Analytics and David Lapp of Farallon Geographics, Location Intelligence Conference presentation "Going Beyond Averages, Using Spatial Data to Analyze Insurance Risk". Based on the presentation he explains why Oracle Spatial 10g was chosen as the key ingredient for a cost effective, scalable, fast, and flexible database solution to a geographic problem where no maps were needed or desired.

Oracle Spatial User Group Meeting, Brisbane, 9th December 2006—January 4, 2006, Directions Magazine (HTML)

Simon Greener reports on the patterns and logical threads which he found in the presentations at the Oracle Spatial User Group Meeting in Brisbane, Australia. In the report, he considers how each of the customer-centric stories expresses the value these customers found in database-based spatial, with data-level interoperability, and simple SQL.

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