Hungarian GIS Market Survey 1997.
Stewart Information Hungary Ltd.

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Sanctity of Contract
Stewart Information Hungary (SIH) is a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corporation. SISCO is an U.S. based holding company those co-ordinates business activities of more than 150 enterprises world-wide. SISCO's main businesses are:
Title insurance (Stewart Title Guarantee companies - STG)
Real estate information (Landata Group)
Both Landata Group and STG are a group of companies within the Stewart organisation. Stewart Information Hungary belongs to the Landata Group.
About SISCO's international activities:
Title Insurance:
Stewart issues title insurance policies through over 3,000 locations on homes and other real property located in all 50 states of the USA, and District of Columbia, Canada, Mexico, Belize (reinsurance), Guam, Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Northern Marinas, United Kingdom.
Real Estate Information:
Besides title insurance Stewart companies provide a wide range of information technology (IT) services. This includes aerial photography, photogrammetry, digital mapping and geographical information system (GIS) development. A few example for our IT products:
LANDSCAN: office imaging system for the county clerks.
RE-Source: this product is a state of the art property information database and querying system. It combines three sources of data: 1) County Appraisal Districts real property records; 2) deed record information obtained from the county clerks to provide the most current ownership and mortgage information; and 3) sales information for statistical purposes.
GIS based land taxation system for Trinidad.

SISCO in Europe:
United Kingdom: title insurance.
Moldova: participation in a USAID project that targets the establishment of the national land registration system.
Slovak Republic: development of a GIS for local governments for establishing or optimising local taxation.

Activities in Hungary

Stewart Information Hungary has three business lines: software application development (including GIS), information technology (IT) consulting and data warehousing.
Software Applications and Services:
We develop off-the-shelf solutions for local governments and farmers.
Our real property inventory product called Cygnus provides an affordable and easy to use tool for the asset management department of local Governments. Cygnus has a desktop GIS extension.
Another GIS related product of SIH is, in fact, a service package that is called Agricula. This service package includes classic land surveying, digital map preparation, title auditing and building a farm management GIS.
IT Consulting:
Stewart Information provides our partners with a wide range of IT related services. The spectrum of these services ranges from needs assessment through system design to project auditing.
Data Warehousing:
Stewart Information developed a comprehensive social-statistical database in co-operation with the Technical University of Budapest, Department of Sociology. This database -together with the GIS based querying and browsing tools- supports such complex analyses that have never been possible before.

Contact information:

Mail address: 1021 Budapest, Hűvösvölgyi út 54.
Telephone: (361)-316-2058
Fax: (361)-316-2059
Contact persons:
Zoltán Gábor Szabó CEO
Internet: www.stewart.com

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