Hungarian GIS Market Survey 1997.
Geoview Systems Ltd.

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The company provides customers with the full scale of services related to geographical informatics (GIS) from pre-development consulting through the realisation of turn-key network systems loaded with mapping and other data to education and training.
The main profile of the company includes: The business activities of Geoview Systems Ltd. encompass two main target areas. The first one of them is that of standard GIS software and development environment supply, where as the result of a 50 man-year work the firm have succeeded in creating a fully object-oriented GIS development and running system baptised GreenLine. GreenLine is essentially sold in Germany through the GBI GmbH. firm under the name MicOpen. At present, several German municipalities are starting up and testing GreenLine. According to the terms of a contract signed in 1996, the firm's dealer engaged himself to sell several hundred licenses per annum. The company maintains contacts with several leading firms, e.g. with Siemens in Europe or with Geovision, IBM and SUN Microsystems in the United States, to mention but a few. The company is a well-established, regular participant of the domestic Ifabo expositions and the Compfair IT shows. At Ifabo '91, Geoview's water management system won the prestigious Top Class Product award.
The other main field of interest of Geoview Systems Ltd. is application development. Here, in the context of municipal management systems, the company is the leader on the Hungarian market. They are working on the development of GIS information systems in more than 15 municipalities, among them 5 major towns and several districts of the capital.
Geoview Systems Ltd. has successfully entered the new market of realising public utility suppliers' systems. As the first step of this process, the firm realised the complete GIS registration of the gas network of the city of Hajdúszoboszló under a contract with TIGÁZ, while ÉGÁZ commissioned the firm to create the public utility registration system of Győr. In parallel, Geoview received an order from ÉDÁSZ Ltd. to prepare the GIS system covering its entire geographical sphere of competence (6 counties), a framework in which the firm developed the so-called Integrated Technical Information System (in Hungarian: the IMIR). With the aid of the IMIR, ÉDÁSZ Ltd. can register and keep track of their every network tool, ranging from the (low voltage) municipal network to the (high voltage) inter-municipal one.
From among the sectorial public utility systems, Geoview proudly mentions the outstanding feat of realising the Complex Sectorial Public Utility GIS of Hungary's one and only nuclear power plant located in Paks.
Current staff consists of approximately 40 professionals who graduated at various universities; some of them are working for the Győr Geoview division. Many of their experts regularly visit international expositions on computerised GIS, giving oral contributions or submitting publications (e.g. at the EGIS '90 First European Conference on Geographical Information Systems B "The Complex Land Information System of Budapest"; one can also mention the EGIS '93 B "GREEN LINE: The New Generation GIS at the Gas Services", a publication ranked as second best in its kind), too.
From the nature of the firm's work it follows that 80% of their engineers are fluent in English. 85% of the staff is less than 35 years old, dynamic and creative. This competent professional staff and the use of the latest software technologies guarantee that the firm's market share will continue to grow.
Over the past 7 years, Geoview Systems Ltd. has developed a number of internationally acclaimed software tools. The most prominent ones include a map management module, a network management module, graphical analytical modules; their development is the result of cca. 50 man-years of work. The development process drew on the latest up-to-date technologies based on Windows NT, UNIX and OS/2, in both PC and workstation environments, at about 50 workplaces. The firm's systems operate in network environments, which permits the realisation of extensive, even nation-wide systems. The systems are delivered with mapping data uploaded, therefore the computerised map of the country as well as that of Budapest and a few important cities B including all the postal addresses B are available. Data to the national database were uploaded in co-operation with the National Statistical Bureau and the municipality row-entry numerical NSB database (TSTAR) was linked to the map of the country.
Contact information:

Mail address: 1137 Budapest, Radnóti M. u. 2. V. em.
Telephone: (361)-269-2099, (361)-112-7072
Fax: (361)-112-6861
Contact persons:
Ferenc Farkas CEO
István Nikl GIS executive
Enikő Tóth marketing executive
E-mail: andras@bp.geoview.hu; jozsi@bp.geoview.hu
WWW: www.geoview.hu

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