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Advantages and key points

Listed below are some of the advantages and key points of a robust GIS solution:

1. Data management and service publishing in a way connected to the corporate database.
2. Portal of administration of data services, maps and applications, manager to define users, roles
and levels of access to these services. Possibility of joining the Corporate Active Directory.

3. Ability to share layers, maps, and application services at different levels: private, to one or more
groups of people, to the entire organization, and open to citizens.
4. Powerful web map builder (Web Maps), with different capabilities such as advanced configuration
of styles and symbolization, configuration of pop-up windows or attribute tabs, filters and
visualization by stairs, among others.

5. Content included in the GIS platform, from various basemaps, street locators and coordinates,
sociodemographic variables, transport networks, etc.
6. Availability of several templates and application builder, including the ability to create them
without the need to develop, simply through configuration.

7. Visual and simple environment for the construction of viewers and applications; with the
possibility of configuring different widgets of functionalities, texts and layout on the screen,
and the appearance of the viewer.
8. Possibility of re-using the created applications. In this way, you can create new web applications
in a short time and adapt them to the specific needs of different users.

9. It does not require external development, thus facilitating the maintenance of the applications
deployed by the internal GIS team.
10. With the GIS platform, internal and external interoperability must be improved since it allows
for the easy sharing of the web services of maps and features by REST and/or OGC protocols.

11. Integrable to other corporate systems through available APIs.
12. Rapid deployment of solutions for projects thanks to the capabilities of the GIS platform.

13. Product support for the strict quality controls in its development, and for the local technical
support services for any question.

14. Availability of careful documentation of all GIS products and a large number of training materials,
many free, which allow to considerably flatten the learning curve.
15. Wide geospatial community of users that allows the generation of important synergies between
users and the technology itself, improving the products to adapt to the specific needs.

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