Business Consultancy 

When planning to apply GIS in your organization, no matter the size, you should carefully think about and plan for your needs before investment on data acquisition, databases, applications, and systems development. Business Consultancy at ESRI NeA Professional Services mainly deals with supporting our clients in terms of needs assessment, strategic thinking and planning for GIS needs, in addition to managing GIS implementation and the resulting change that occurs within the enterprise. 

Needs Assessment
One of the key services we provide to our clients is in-depth needs assessment. This involves looking at the client’s problem, assessing their need for GIS and estimating their requirements after effectively assessing the current situation and available resources.

Strategic Planning
Geographic and spatial information is increasingly becoming an integral element in any organization’s information bank. Accordingly, integrating it with the enterprise’s IT strategies effectively has become an important activity that has to be strategically maneuvered. Moreover, setting the right strategies and plan requires extensive experience. This is where ESRI NeA comes in. Our team of GIS consultants has a diverse background in GIS strategies and implementation, making us adept at effectively supporting a client’s needs in this area. Each strategy we develop is designed to deliver a specific set of benefits to meet the client’s needs. Generally however, these are some of the main advantages of integrating geographic information strategies into your enterprise:

• Enabling greater interoperability and integration with other business systems
• Improving data quality and reducing risk 
• Lowering training costs and supporting people portability

Business Process Modeling
Implementing GIS in an organization usually results in the need to implement change through remodeling of business processes. Accordingly, the management of such a task should be included in the strategies when they are being designed. In developing business strategies for business process modeling, ESRI NeA performs a detailed analysis of the existing business processes, identifies the proposed processes, and lays out the specifications of the most suitable methods and procedures for the implementation and management of such a change. In addition to redeveloping an organization’s processes, business process modeling includes changes to the organization’s overall culture, or changes to the technical infrastructure. The benefits arising from such business analysis is that it allows the client to identify the areas requiring major expenditure, the major risks involved, and provides a good base for formulating suitable strategies that effectively deal with the changes in the business processes and the risks associated with it.

Additional Business Consultancy Services

• Orientation seminars on ESRI products and technologies
• RFP preparation 
• Requirements definition
• Systems integration & sizing
  

Sample List of References

• GIS for the Development Authority for Mecca, Al Medina, and Holy Mosques (DCOMMM)-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Geostatistical Simulation Analysis & Database Development (GSADD) for Ar-Riyadh Development Authority (ADA)-Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• EGAS- Egypt
• General Organization of Physical Planning-Egypt