How can Geofutures help your organisation plan for an uncertain future?

If you’ve already seen what spatial insight can do, you’ll know that it’s a powerful way of analysing information and visualising the results on maps. If you’re new to mapping data and geographic information science, our ‘What is GIS?‘ section may offer a useful overview.

Web maps have become hugely popular over the past few years. Simple pinpoints on a map make a directory come to life, and these tools are simple for anyone to operate.

Geofutures builds web applications which are just as easy to use, but which provide far more powerful analysis, multiple datasets, value-added data, user-defined criteria and simple interactive tools to map the results and get the relevant insights in front of the decision makers.

We go back a while – back to the days when GIS often meant a heavy investment in dedicated hardware, software and specialist training. Our pedigree has been built undertaking high-end consultancy and research for blue-chips and government, but now with the help of a faster Internet, we’re committed to making cost-effective business support tools available to any organisation.

Who benefits?

So who benefits? It’s always stimulating talking to new clients, because once they see what GIS can do, they apply it to their unique circumstances and come up with whole new ways of adding value to a business. Our recent client work provides some great examples.

Organisations who sell information – from raw data to high-end business intelligence – work with Geofutures to make what they offer even higher in value. They differentiate themselves by the quality and simplicity of how they deliver information to clients.

We work in partnership with consultancies, data providers and professional advisers to help them deliver the right spatial insight to their clients.

Enterprises which regularly use information to make business or policy decisions also gain huge benefits from our GIS tools. From local authorities pinpointing fine-scale pockets of deprivation to corporates understanding different buying patterns in different locations, from property investors fine-combing the demographics of a location to journalists and campaigners making an argument leap off the page, Geofutures can help. There are more examples of our recent client projects here.

The future can never be certain. Decisions made now will affect long term social, economic and environmental sustainability. We need the right tools to understand where we are now and to map the way forward. That’s our business mission and we believe wholeheartedly that GIS has a huge contribution to make.