:: Geographical Information Systems and its business perspectives
Abstract: In this age of competitive business, achieving increased efficiency through new technology is becoming crucial. Organizations are looking for ways to improve productivity and increase profit through automation. With the advent of affordable computer technologies, organizations have started to automate business functions through use of electronic spreadsheets, relational database technology, and computer aided designing and drafting systems. To meet the challenges of future, the corporate mantra is now “ increase efficiency and control cost, reduce duplication of effort, prevent redundancy, increase efficiency and offer better services to their customers. If what you do involves managing information that can be linked to the geographical location, GIS can play a vital role in making business more efficient and more productive, and often result in better service delivery. GIS has become an essential technology for business organizations in making better decisions and improvement in services.