Etisalat is the Middle East’s leading telecom operator and one of the largest corporations in the six Arab countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. They have recently engaged The Gartrell Group to configure a hosted instance of our Performance Atlas with the goal of expanding their location intelligence capabilities and better equipping managers and executives to assess performance, perform competitive analysis, and refine business strategy across the 15 countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia where Estisalat offers services.
We are very pleased with the opportunity to develop this new relationship and to begin work on this interesting engagement.
Increasing Location Intelligence for Mercy Corps
Our team has recently undertaken a rewarding effort to help Mercy Corps improve their location intelligence capabilities for better program monitoring, performance assessment, and situational awareness in areas around the globe where the non-governmental aid organization conducts disaster relief and economic development programs.
In their own words:
“Mercy Corps partners with creative thinkers from the private and public sectors to develop social innovations that transform lives. New technology, business models and creative partnerships provide transformational opportunities for overcoming poverty and despair.”
Our team’s partnership with Mercy Corps has involved implementing a Performance Atlas visualization and interactive mapping system that allows for:
- Review, monitoring, and assessment of key performance indicators
- Field mission planning support
- Integration and assessment of field-collected data
- Collaborative, visual communication among remote project partners and stakeholders.
We are now collaborating with Mercy Corps and members of the Barr and Kellogg Foundation to determine how the Location Intelligence system used for a pilot project in Haiti may be further extended and applied to other programs across the globe. This is in support of Mercy Corp’s mission to leverage [a] robust global program platform to identify breakthrough ideas, test them in the field, and scale them broadly.”
Right-Of-Way tracking with Performance Atlas
Client: Electrical Contractors, Inc
ECI is a full service Engineering Design Firm specializing in the Power & Telecommunications Industry. They have offices in Montana, Arizona, Utah, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and more planned to open on the East Coast.
Goal: Provide efficient Right-Of-Way activity tracking capability leveraging the best of contemporary web technologies.
Services Provided: The Gartrell Group worked closely with company stakeholders to develop a detailed understanding of their Right-Of-Way workflows and desires for improvements and new capabilities. We then applied this information to adapt a Performance Atlas® deployment suited to their defined needs.
Pulling from the wide-variety of components available to our Performance Atlas®, we were able to provide ECI with a comprehensive solution that gives users access to different projects and the associated data, such as landowner contacts, tasks, financial information, public comments and the ability to toggle between a map-centric and journal view.
Key Technologies: GIS Hosting, Performance Atlas (Software-as-a-Service)