Idea Integration has licensed the OpenSpirit Software Developer Kit to leverage as part of their consulting offering.

• Constellation™

CONTACT
Mitchell Atwood
mitchell.atwood@idea.com
+1 713 626 5242

PARTNER PROFILE
Idea Integration (NYSE) is a professional business and IT consulting firm that is a business unit of the MPS Group. With locations and clients throughout the United States, Idea services a number of industries and verticals, with the Houston Idea office specializing in solutions for the upstream E&P industry, including:

• GIS Business Services
• Strategy Development
• Needs Assessment
• System Design and Architecture
• Database Design
• Application Development
• Enterprise GIS Integration
• Geospatial Web Solutions
• End User Support Services
• GIS Analysis Services

Idea has core expertise and relevant domain knowledge in Business Process Management, Microsoft Server Integration, Infrastructure, Geographic Information Systems, Application Development and Interactive / Marketing services. In addition, Idea is a recognized Business Partner with ESRI, K2.NET and OpenSpirit and Microsoft Gold Partner status. Recently, Idea was recognized at the 2008 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston for the Partner of the Year Award for Data Visualization – an award that had 4,000 entries worldwide.

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
The E&P world is presented with multiple disparate systems (current and legacy), disparate data sets and nonstandard corporate interfaces, resulting in "swivel chair" integration across the enterprise.

BENEFITS
Idea Integration's Constellation 2.0 framework embeds ArcGIS Server 9.3 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 for advanced spatial search, charting, reporting and integration. Based upon client needs, the framework can tie into seismic, well, land, pipeline or other oil & gas data assets.  Spatially driven document management, business intelligence driven charting and key performance indicators and much more is possible with the Constellation 2.0 framework. Idea uses the ArcGIS Server 9.3 platform to spatially drive the business from centralized, industry standard dashboard. OpenSpirit enabling Constellation 2.0 framework allows seamless access to multiple geological and geophysical applications offering a single unified view and dashboard of corporate upstream assets.