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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedThe city of Edmonton gets SLIM. (System Implementation).(Spatial Land Inventory Management software)
GEO World, October, 2002 by Jo Wagner, Mary
IF CITY EMPLOYEES OF EDMONTON'S CORPORATE services department could design a T-shirt to commemorate their recent implementation of a corporate GIS solution, it probably would read: "Go Big or Go Home." And it would be a fitting tribute, because the database system they've created and rolled out to civic personnel and the public is indeed big. In fact, as corporate GIS implementations go, it's massive.
Ironically titled Spatial Land Inventory Management (SLIM), this GIS is anything but slight. Instead, SLIM is a massive information management system--massive in its data stores, functionality and features--and it's a huge product of data integration and conversion, software programming and coding, software integration and application development.
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