System Integration Consultancy

ESRI (UK) provides systems engineering and systems integration services for third party products and ESRI commercial off-the-shelf (COTS). Services are available in support of activities at any stage of the system’s life cycle. GIS Systems Engineering Services include

• needs assessment;
• requirements analysis;
• conceptual and physical database design;
• data dictionary development;
• prototyping;
• software design and applications programming;
• unit, integration, or functional software testing;
• independent quality assurance for data or software; hardware, software, and data integration;
• application documentation; and
• on-site maintenance of application software.

In this engineering/integration role, ESRI (UK) is sometimes involved as the prime contractor but we are often involved as part of a larger team through subcontracting arrangements with systems integrators, consultants or technology firms.

Many GIS system implementations require integration of additional third party COTS solutions. ESRI (UK) specialises in knowing how to integrate ESRI GIS software with third party software and hardware into an overall geospatial solution for a client.

We can design COTS hardware architectures and perform hardware integration for a wide variety of hardware components including mainframes, servers; client workstations; specialised equipment such as scanners, plotters, film writers, and CD publishing devices; and computer network components.

Our staff have integrated systems from a wide variety of hardware manufacturers, database management system vendors, and data vendors. As a result, they are able to provide objective technical evaluations of these components and recommend the best performance / price solutions.