Inovação GIS to Provide Expert, Local Support for OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to Brazil
São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil / New York, NY, USA, 27th October — Inovação, a geographic information company delivering spatial data management solutions through integration, quality improvement and spatial data access services, and OpenGeo, producer of the OpenGeo Suite, today announced a reseller agreement that will bring enhanced sales and support services for the OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition to Brazil.
Inovação will assume the first line of support of the OpenGeo Suite in Brazil for its local clientele, while gaining privileged access to OpenGeo for second line support. Upon making the announcement, Marco Fidos, Director at Inovação noted: "The Brazilian market is growing fast, and Brazilian enterprises are looking for high performance, a low cost to benefit ratio, interoperability, and easy to use systems. The OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition is 100% fitted to these requirements."
Chris Holmes, OpenGeo President, added: "We are truly excited to be enhancing our services to the Brazilian market with a strong partner like Inovação. This new relationship will allow us to immediately add excellent local expertise and skilled support for OpenGeo Suite users throughout one of the world's fastest growing geospatial markets."
OpenGeo is well known worldwide for its contributions and leadership in the development and evolution of powerful open source geospatial technologies. The OpenGeo Suite offers a fully integrated open source geospatial platform for serving maps and data through web applications, mobile devices, and desktop clients. The OpenGeo Suite Enterprise Edition is comprised of tested, integrated and supported geospatial components GeoServer, OpenLayers, GeoWebCache, PostGIS and GeoExt.
About OpenGeo
OpenGeo is a social enterprise working to build the best web-based geospatial technology. The company brings the best practices of open source software to geospatial organizations around the world by providing enterprises with supported, tested, and integrated open source solutions to build the Geospatial Web. OpenGeo also supports open source communities by employing key developers of PostGIS, GeoServer, and OpenLayers. The company has a seven-year history of providing successful consulting services and products to clients like the World Bank, Google, MassGIS, Portland TriMet, Landgate, and the Federal Communications Commission. OpenGeo is the geospatial division of OpenPlans, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit that informs and engages communities through journalism and open source software.
About Inovação
Inovação is a leader in the Brazilian market, providing innovative solutions for management of spatial data and delivering interoperability solutions as an exclusive reseller of FME, the world's leading geo-interoperability tool. Based in São José dos Campos, a hub for geo technologies in Brazil, Inovação serves customers in multiple markets including energy, utilities, mining, government and telecom, and is becoming a strong spatial data management partner for companies with high volumes of data and/or complex environments deploying CAD/GIS/DataBase, integrating technologies as ESRI, GE Smallworld, AutoDesk, Mapinfo, MicroStation, Teradata, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Open Source tools, like PostGIS and MapServer.
Besides FME, Inovação also distributes products for spatial data quality assurance/control, correction, modeling, distribution and integration including MRF, SBS-Plugin, SevenCs, VPMap Series, Oracle and Teradata. Inovação is able to address conversion challenges from analogic/paper data to raster, raster to vector, and from vector to more than 250 formats, providing automated quality assurance, correction, and structuring/restructuring of models, standards, integration and web distribution.
Inovação is also engaged with public and private organizations to implement the Brazilian national data model (MND) and other standards as ISO, APDM, FGDC and others.