Dotted Eyes News

Dotted Eyes is pleased to be exhibiting at this year’s NHS Confederation Conference in Manchester, 6th-8th July.

The 2011 event programme has been designed to explore the key challenges health leaders will face during a period of transition, together with opportunities to discuss how the new system can deliver high quality care for patients and the public.

Visit us on stand D36 and find out how we help healthcare professionals easily visualise, publish and share their location data, enabling better informed decision making for the provision of services to patients.

Members of the Dotted Eyes team will be at the Local Government Group Conference ‘Localism Works’ at the ICC in Birmingham from 28-30 June.

The conference looks at how the role of local government should be defined following the Localism Bill and how their increased powers affect the way public services are delivered.

Visit us on stand B14a and find out how our new solution based on open source technologies helps local authorities develop new ways of delivering public services.

If you’re planning to attend and would like to arrange to meet with one of our team, please contact us on 01527 556920.

Building up Open Source, Open Standards, Open Data research

Dotted Eyes is delighted to be the Gold Sponsor at the third Open Source GIS Conference which is taking place on 21&22 June at the Centre of Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham.

The event is widely recognised as one of the leading forums for discovering the latest developments and technology advances in Open Source and Open Data, and for networking and collaborating ideas for the future.

Join us on our stand where we will be showcasing Local Government Portal, our new Open Source based solution, which offers an alternative approach to web mapping.

Demonstrations will run throughout each day of the conference, so if you are interested in reducing costs through  a fully supported Open Source based solution, it is well worth paying us a visit.

Are you ready for the storm?
Dotted Eyes has teamed up with Whitespace Waste Software in a series of regional roadshow events to help fleet and waste managers prepare for the challenging times ahead.  With the current climate of economic uncertainty, budget cuts and redundancies, all the elements of a perfect storm are on the horizon.  Are you one of the lucky ones who will ride out the storm or are you in danger of sinking to the bottom of the ocean?

Through the combined experience of both companies, we have devised a new approach to managing waste and recycling collections that focuses on the data and delivers real cost savings and service improvements to you from the outset.

Senior management teams agree that this storm will provide both opportunities and threats for everyone involved in the waste management sector.  What is evident is that the ‘do nothing’ option will not suffice – the storm is coming.

Agenda highlights

• Key issues facing waste & recycling managers following our industry research
• Efficiency gains through technology
• Customer case study showing typical cost saving and service improvements
• Solution demonstration
• ‘Ask the panel’  and floor discussion

Want to find out more? Join us on one of the roadshow dates below and discover how waste managers are already benefiting from this innovative solution.

Dates               Venues         Time
14 June             London           08:30 – 10:30
16 June             Cardiff            10:00 – 12:00

Book today to attend this free event – places are limited!

Oracle BI Location Intelligence: 17th May, London 9.00am -2.00pm.

Members of the Dotted Eyes team will be on hand for a chat during this free seminar hosted by Oracle, which explores the benefits of integrating location intelligence with business intelligence and how it can be used to improve accuracy in decision making.

Visit the Dotted Eyes stand and speak to Vickie, Sam or Matt to discover just how valuable location intelligence could be to your business and how easy it is to make the data work for you.

More information

Find out about other events in the Dotted Eyes calendar.

The latest release of FME Desktop includes:

• Point cloud support, e.g. for LiDAR
• Workspace templating for quick start/sharing with others
• Stylers for MapInfo and DWG
• Inline inspection for superfine debugging
• Improved XML handling

Try FME 2011

Register for Safe’s ‘FME 2011 Customer Webinar‘ on Feb 8th at 4pm, UK time. Hosted by Dale and Don, the founders of Safe Software it’s a great chance to find out what’s new in FME 2011, before the UK FME User Group in early April. If you aren’t able to attend, you can download the FME 2011 infosheet.

If you’re a FME user on maintenance, you can download the release from our try FME page, before your disc arrives. New users can access an evaluation version there too.

Keep up to date with FME news by following @dottedeyesltd and @safesoftware on Twitter.

FME UK User Group

The event of the year for UK FME’ers is back for the fourth time and promises to be bigger and better than ever.

Split over two venues – Leeds and Southampton – each 1-day free event in early April will provide technical ‘how to’ and ‘best practice’ sessions and the chance to talk FME with fellow users.

We’re delighted to have secured Don, the Chairman and Co-Founder of Safe Software, as the host for the event. Don’s enthusiasm for FME is well appreciated by FME User Group attendees who enjoy his relaxed, yet informative, presentation style.

Find out more.

The recent funding settlement announcement has prompted local government to look for back office savings.

Dotted Eyes is running a series of breakfast briefings to address the issue of cost saving through more efficient use of GIS.

To join us at Birmingham, Leeds, Swansea or London, please register.

Location Wales 2010, the 12^th AGI Cymru Annual Conference is taking place in Cardiff on Wednesday 1 December.  The conference sets out the exciting opportunities that can be realised by the intelligent use of geographic information.  Dotted Eyes’ David Eagle will be presenting “Self-Service Spatial ETL” during the Innovation in Geography morning session and in the afternoon, find out about our Route Optimisation capabilities during a lightning talk given by Associate Director, Charlie Gilbert.

For more information visit the AGI website

Our new solution for data sharing within the NHS will be on show at our stand at the HSJ Healthcare Informatics conference in London on 24th November.

Health Portal is the new secure intranet solution to healthcare data sharing and analysis, allowing healthcare information to be published for internal use, so staff can access data and perform analysis on demand.

Anyone unable to make the event can find out more about Health Portal at one of our short webinars on 9th November at 2pm, and 25th November at 10am.

Register for the webinars here, or book your place at the HSJ event by calling HSJ on 0845 056 8339, quoting reference DIS-J040-DOT25 to claim a 25% discount as one of our customers.

Shared access to asset data and aerial imagery sets the bar for ‘data sharing without frontiers’ in the new climate of local government collaboration

Dotted Eyes, the market leading GeoData and information software specialists, today announces the release of Contractor Portal v2.0, which embraces new imperatives for local government organisations to share internally generated asset data, along with OS and OSNI and wider third party datasets, across a broadening number of partners to deliver on changing local government and related NHS reforms.

Quick to see the unique advantage it offers in serving its partner and contractor relations, Liverpool Direct Limited is deploying Contractor Portal this summer:

“Liverpool Direct Limited’s business case for promoting Contractor Portal within Liverpool City Council is based on sound commercial principles”, said Brian Jones, GeoData Manager, Liverpool Direct Limited.

“When we roll out Contractor Portal this summer it will allow us to provide a responsive service to the City’s partners and contractors whilst reducing costs, decreasing paperwork, helping to eliminate avoidable contact and promoting a self-service approach for external users.  We also plan to extend the use of Contractor Portal beyond the licensing and distribution of digital map data to partners and contractors to the licensing of other digital datasets and also the submission of digital data by contractors to the City.”

Importantly, the new platform provides the ability for the solution to be hosted or installed, whilst the flexible pricing model supports end user and organisation payment options.

Released this week, Contractor Portal v2.0, sets a precedent in supporting an incomparable range of data at a user and cost model previously unknown at time of unparalleled need for partner data sharing. In addition to providing self-service access to data licensed under Collective Purchase Agreements, from Ordnance Survey and other data suppliers, Contractor Portal enables organisations to share their own, internally generated data in a secure environment for the first time.

“Simplification is key to opening up important data access as it enables more people in more organisations to make better decisions,” said Ben Allan, Managing Director of Dotted Eyes.

“That access is critical to meeting the imperatives of localised data sharing inherent in new government drives.  Contractor Portal equips local government organisations to work collaboratively and cost effectively, breaking down traditional barriers, opening up GIS siloes and releasing vital information for sharing across organisations with the minimum of fuss.”

With a long heritage as innovators of software, data and information solutions developed for some 900-plus public and private sector customers in healthcare, local government, not-for-profit and the commercial sector, Dotted Eyes’ mantra is to ‘simplify, automate and integrate’  data and information.  This approach uniquely equips senior and departmental levels of organisations to access, visualise, analyse and share complex data in simple, useable formats to make more cost-effective, locally-relevant decisions.

For information about Contractor Portal and to register interest for the autumn 2010 seminar, visit the Contractor Portal webpage.