Providing Seattle City Light with GIS Support

We recently kicked off a two-year project, during which time, we will be providing Seattle City Light - the electric utility in Seattle – with ongoing GIS support. We have teamed up with our friends at FLO Analytics in order to provide SCL with the best possible service.
The first phase of the project will involve a needs assessment where our team will meet with stakeholders in order to determine their needs and capabilities. The needs assessment will help guide a strategic plan that SCL will use to move forward with their planning for future needs and budgets.

I addition to the needs assessment and strategic plan, we will be proving SCL with “boots on the ground” GIS analysts to provide immediate practical assistance. The goal, at the end of the project, will be to provide the folks at SCL with the proper plan and know-how to move forward successfully on their own.

Please contact us if you’d like to find out more about how we can help your organization realize it’s full potential.

Mapping Indoor Spaces

The Gartrell Group recently completed the first phase of a project for Entech Engineering to configure a version of ESRI’s Campus Place Finder to match their needs.
The Place Finder is exactly what it sounds like; “a web application that allows employees and visitors to locate people and places on a campus or in a single building.” We’re mapping indoor spaces!

We configured the Campus Place Finder to meet Entech’s security requirements and other needs that are not fulfilled by the “out of the box” product, such as configuring the app to support web-based editing of room attributes. Our firm’s expertise with ArcGIS Server, network security,  and Javascript/HTML5 made us the ideal choice for this project.  Our capability to host the system on secure, cloud-based infrastructure was also attractive to Entech, as it will reduce their support burdens and get them into production much faster.

The state of the state with regard to indoor mapping and navigation is rapidly gaining sophistication, and some of the capabilities are beginning to mainstream.  If you have questions about how to extend your location intelligence to interior space, or have application development or hosting needs, please contact us.

Etisalat partners with the Gartrell Group to increase business intelligence

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.