Last week SIGGIS participated as a premium partner of Esri France with a team of 10 GIS experts in the yearly Francophone Esri Conference, SIG2020. It was an exceptional event, completely digital with a lot of interaction and a full week program.
All sessions were recorded and can be replayed at https://sig2020.esrifrance.fr/ , you can still subscribe to watch the recordings. A memorable event for which SIGGIS congratulates the entire Esri France Team.
ArcGIS Notebooks is Esri’s answer for streamlining complex geospatial analysis. It is based on Python and Project Jupyter. Use ArcPy, ArcGIS and hundreds of open source Python libraries to support any geospatial research.
Data science, like deep learning allows us to discover meaning and trends in complex data and spatial systems. Examples are pattern analysis of aerial imagery or seeking trends in terabytes of network related IoT-data. Results from such research can be great. However, too often the underlying scientific algorithms are presented as a black box. We are asked to simply ‘trust the system’.
Detecting specific tree species using ArcGIS. Source: Geopunt.be
Earth scientists are trained to use GIS and scripting to analyse multi-variate and high-volume spatial data and services. And indeed the methods and results can be complex. The need for communication is therefore always present, as is the expectancy to justify each decision made. ArcGIS Notebooks is designed to facilitate and manage this process.
With the ergonomic interface you gradually and visually elaborate your study. Over 300 Python libraries are at your disposal, as are ArcPy and Esri’s advanced image processing and geo-analytics toolkits*.
The ArcGIS Notebooks interface. Source Esri.
On top of that, ArcGIS Notebooks offers the possibility to insert intermediate results. You can use maps, graphs, and tables while constructing your Python script. By showing intermediate results it will be quite straightforward to verify new models. In addition, when presented your research will prove to be fully explainable.
Thanks to ArcGIS Notebooks the transparency of spatial data science remains guaranteed, even in later stages when calculations are getting multi-dimensional and often rather complex.
ArcGIS Notebooks has been available for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Enterprise for over a year. Since recently it is also available via ArcGIS Online. Indeed, you can start your data science project based on an affordable subscription.
Do contact us if you want more information about ArcGIS Notebooks or when you want to discuss a specific study.
So, start building your deep learning algorithms today, or have it developed and expect clear reporting about the scientific methods used.
After an awarding process of more than a year, SIGGIS was selected by Infrabel for the renewal of Sirius. This is a framework agreement for licenses, maintenance and training for a new software for managing Infrabel’s fibre-optic network. SIGGIS has offered a solution together with Dynamic Design, a part of the VertiGIS Group, based on ConnectMaster. The name of the new system will be Pyxis. Pyxis will allow Infrabel to maintain a global vision of the telecom network and all related assets to better achieve their ambitious business objectives.
On June 13 2019, SIGGIS became an official partner in Esri’s Utility Network Management Specialty.
SIGGIS is recognized for the expertise with utilities and the implementation of solutions and services using the ArcGIS Utility Network Management Extension.
SIGGIS successfully demonstrated the Utility Network Management Extension in both ArcGIS Pro and Geocortex. Based on actual data, we demonstrated the fusion and migration of two different gas networks to a Utility Network, including tracing functionality in a web environment.
Being part of the Utility Network Management Specialty opens the door to opportunities to engage with new and existing customers. Ongoing access to Specialty activities and resources will help the SIGGIS team to stay equipped, engaged, and release ready.
Do contact us for advice or a transformation to Esri’s Utility Network.
On June 13 2019, SIGGIS became an official partner in Esri’s Utility Network Management Specialty.
SIGGIS is recognized for the expertise with utilities and the implementation of solutions and services using the ArcGIS Utility Network Management Extension.
SIGGIS successfully demonstrated the Utility Network Management Extension in both ArcGIS Pro and Geocortex. Based on actual data, we demonstrated the fusion and migration of two different gas networks to a Utility Network, including tracing functionality in a web environment.
Being part of the Utility Network Management Specialty opens the door to opportunities to engage with new and existing customers. Ongoing access to Specialty activities and resources will help the SIGGIS team to stay equipped, engaged, and release ready.
ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7 is the next generation in open GIS. It contains significant performance improvements, allowing you to publish more map services with less RAM usage.
Version 10.7 includes ArcGIS Notebook server, enabling more intuitive interactive Python scripting and sharing of code. New mapping capabilities have been added, as well as many new functions to improve field work such as the preparation of offline map areas.
Look out for the new Tracker for ArcGIS application which can track every step you make!
Do contact us whenever you want to integrate ArcGIS Enterprise 10.7. We are dedicated to maximizing your benefit of the ArcGIS potential!
Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux is the electricity distribution company for the northern part of Alsace since more than 100 years. It belongs to 100 % to Électricité de Strasbourg which is a subsidiary to 88% to EDF. Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux is the 2nd largest electricity DSO on the French market after ENEDIS. Strasbourg Électricité Réseaux (SER) develops and maintains an electricity and telecom grid on its territory and connects 530 000 clients within 409 local authorities through a 15 000 km long electricity network. In 2017, SER issued an European tender for a new GIS, which was won in November 2018 by AED-SICAD and its business partner SIGGIS SAS after a very thorough selection process. AED-SICAD’s UT for ArcGIS and Latitude Geographics’ Geocortex will be implemented for the branches electricity and telecom. A large number of third party IT systems will be connected using AED-SICAD’s UT Integrator.
About AED-SICAD
AED-SICAD GmbH (AED-SICAD), Bonn/Munich, Germany, is the leading GIS application company in Europe. More than 130 utilities in Europe, Middle East and Africa are using the UT for ArcGIS product suite. Their portfolio comprises high-end geographical information systems for the key segments utilities, cadastre and land management. With UT for ArcGIS for the utility industry and LM on ArcGIS for cadastre and land management, AED-SICAD develops cutting edge GIS applications and solutions based on the worldwide leading ArcGIS core technology.
About SIGGIS
SIGGIS SAS, Paris/Brussels (part of NRB Group), is a value-added reseller of ArcGIS, UT for ArcGIS and Geocortex solutions mainly in Belgium and France. SIGGIS is specialised in Enterprise and Web GIS implementations and counts more than 50 customers on the combined ArcGIS-Geocortex or UT platforms. SIGGIS implements enterprise wide connected Geospatial systems based built mainly on configuration and minimum custom development in order to maximize transferability, ROI and long-term maintenance of the developed solutions.
Henri Van Oosterwyck (SIGGIS) and Eddy Pacquée (CEVI/Logins/ NRB GROUP) are pleased to announce that they signed an agreement on 24 May 2018 that will anchor SIGGIS NV and SIGGIS SAS in the NRB Group under the auspices of CEVI/Logins.
SIGGIS Group (Spatial Intelligence Genuine & Generic IT Solutions) is a company with a yearly turnover of 4,5 million euros and software and consultancy activities in the Enterprise GIS market. It is focused on utilities, public services and the private market. SIGGIS Group will remain an Esri sub-distributor in Belgium and Geocortex and UT reseller in Belgium and France. For SIGGIS Group, Christoph Verheecke becomes CEO and Eddy Janssen COO. Henri Van Oosterwyck, Lieven Verheust and Peter Vansteenkiste, the board managers before the acquisition, will remain key in the day to day operations and are committed to support them.
With a consolidated turnover of about €323 million and more than 2.000 collaborators, The NRB Group is one of the major ICT services and solutions providers in Belgium. NRB can provide all the elements of a global ICT solutions covering its whole life cycle. NRB implements and manages the IT infrastructure of its clients, on premise or from its own state-of-the-art data centres located in Herstal and Villers-Le-Bouillet. NRB also designs architectures, develops, manages and maintains applications (mainframe or open systems). The addition of SIGGIS to the group that already holds Xperthis, Civadis, CEVI/Logins, Afelio and Trasys International will enable NRB to fully cover the GIS and Mapping aspects of IT solutions.
SIGGIS Group and CEVI/Logins share the same choice of technology, share important customers such as the cities of Antwerp and Ghent and the provinces and share the same ICT-challenges. These are exciting opportunities for the two businesses to work together to develop their products and exploit operational synergies.
For the customers of SIGGIS Group, the new shareholders will put all their efforts to improve service delivery and to offer complete IT solutions based on GIS going from the conception to the hosting. We are excited to enter this new period and are convinced this will also have a positive effect for our customers.
The processionary moth (eikenprocessievlinder) originates from southern Europe and lacks natural predators in Belgium. As such large caterpillar populations occur in spring. This is an issue because of their poisonous defensive hairs. These hairs break off easily and become airborne, causing skin irritation and in some cases even asthma.
The Province of Antwerp wishes to better anticipate possible hazards and has therefore creates a website where citizens can report sightings of the oak processionary moth.
This reporting is done via a map and the interface has been made with ArcGIS and Geocortex. The GIS department province has been able to create this site without the need for external consultancy.
The Sibelco group is founded in 1872 and one of the most well-established companies in Belgium today. The group, with its headquarters in Dessel, offers on a global scale top quality minerals and silica sands to the industry. As such Sibelco runs facilities all over the world and ArcGIS will be used to help manage production sites and real estate.
ArcGIS Notebooks has been available for ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Enterprise for over a year. Since recently it is also available via ArcGIS Online. Indeed, you can start your data science project based on an affordable subscription.
