Graham has developed enterprise scale architectures for utility, energy and government organisations throughout North America, Australia and the UK.  He specialises in integrating geospatial capabilities into enterprise workflows.  He graduated with a distinguished Masters degree GIS from Edinburgh in 1991 and has presented at numerous conferences.

Experience:
ESRI Telluride 2004, GITA Seattle 2004,
University of Houston 2004, ESRI San Diego
2003, FileNet Newport Beach 2003, ESRI San
Diego 2002, ESRI San Diego 2001, ESRI San
Diego 2000, GITA Portland 2000, ESRI San Diego 1999

Presentation
GIS Service Architectures
Traditionally a niche application with tenuous relationships to mainstream business systems, GIS has occupied an ambiguous position within the enterprise.  Advances in numerous areas are however enabling near seamless collaboration of spatial capabilities for the benefit of a broadening range of business workflows including marketing, billing and business intelligence.  This paper will present case studies from government and transportation sectors to describe collaboration patterns for spatial information and services.

Audience:
business strategists and technical

Key takeaways:
1. Typical roles of spatial information in business today
2. Challenges of utilising the spatial dimension
3. Collaborative GIS service patterns

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