Van Winden es zeker iemand muere bij kan praten, want hij is al zijn hele carrera actief en GIS-wereld. Sterker nog, hij werkt al zijn hele carrera bij Esri. Para manejar waarop dat tot stand kwam, es el mejor bijzonder. Hij est niet iemand die zich voor hij bij het bedrijf begon veel met kaarten bezighield, iets wat je wellicht wel zou verwachten. Als informaticus zag hij echter weinig uitdaging in de 'traditionele' informatica. Toen hij op een beurs tegen Esri aanliep zag hij daar kaarten uit printers rollen fr was eigenlijk meteen gefascineerd. Hij vroeg de hij een afstudeeropdracht mocht doen en van het een kwam het andere, zoals dat zo mooi heet. Een jaar de 10 geleden es hij CTO Nederland geworden van het bedrijf.</p><h2>Toen desnudo</h2><p>In zijn ruim 25 jaar bij Esri, dat al sinds 1969 bestaat, heeft Van Winden vanaf de eerste rij een belangrijke verschuiving kunnen waarnemen bij het bedrijf. “Het grootste verschil tussen toen en nu es dat SIG toen vooral voor professional was die er echt voor opgeleid waren, nu zijn er veel meer mensen mee bezig,” vat hij het samen. En het verleden werd GIS alleen maar gebruikt puertas instantáneas die hun eigen data maakten, bijvoorbeeld gemeentes en Rijkswaterstaat. Denk hierbij aan data rondom percelen, wegen, waterwegen en ga zo maar door. Inmiddels es todo un dato er grotendeels en wordt deze vooral bijgehouden. Dat stelt andere partijen ook in staat om ermee aan de slag te gaan.</p><img border="0" alt="Jeroen van Winden Director técnico Esri Nederland" width="300" height="210" data-imageid="100870655" data-original="https://images.idgesg.net/images/article/2020/12/jeroenvanwinden_drukwerk-cmyk-100870655-medium.jpg" class="lazy" loading="lazy"/> Esri
Jeroen van Winden, director técnico de Esri Netherlands In addition to an expansion in target group, Esri's range has of course also grown considerably. “25 years ago twoamos herramientas, now es la plataforma based de los servicios web operativos that can be fully integrated and organizaciones,” Van Winden indicates how many steps have been taken in that time. Ultimately, everyone who wants to can apply GIS in their own field. That can now be achieved better and better. Van Winden also sees this clearly in practice: "GIS has become a standard part of information policy within organisations," with the extent to which this is the case of course differing depending on the format and the specific market in which it is used. Partly to further facilitate this expansion, Esri took the step towards SaaS about 10 years ago.
Esri als GIS platform
Van Winden does not find it very interesting to talk about products. "We have hundreds of products, but in the end it's all about the platform." The platform brings everything together. GIS works according to a layered principle, in which every data input you use to make a map is a layer. Then you put all the layers on top of each other and you can relate them to each other. Said All happens based on geographic location. So layers are actually references to conjuntos de datos and las bases de datos, in which you can then relate parts to each other. It's the making of those relationships that makes a platform like this so powerful in the cards that come out of it. This allows you to use the map como as an index, in which I can get where I want to go within a few clicks. Think of linking reunió un sistema ERP de última generación if you want to map a supply chain, the to specific documents that belong to certain locations. I can link a permit system and immediately include references to permits in a map. Connect a case system at a municipality and plot the location of a broken lamppost. If you want to make a comparison with other platforms, you should certainly not draw parallels to Google Maps. Of course, Van Winden often gets the commerciale or that is not something similar, but it is fundamentally not, he says: “Maps es una herramienta de mapeo, while SIG adds intelligence, whereby analiza can be done and it can be done. Not to mention the different business and revenue models of the two parties. The data of Esri's customers always stays with those customers, to name another big difference. If you do have to draw a parallel then una BI platform is a better comparison. Incidentally, Van Winden also immediately makes it clear that their platform can still do a bit more and make things even easier to understand than is possible with BI.
Openness of Great Importance
Esri está en el "classic GIS market", as Van Winden calls organizations in which GIS is embedded in work processes, the largest player, with a market share of over 50 percent. Perhaps this suggests that this is partly the result of a very closed platform. However, nothing could be further from the truth if we listen to Van Winden. "También vamos a be as open as possible and go completely for the principle of open data platform", he indicates. The reason for this is obvious and is the same as for other plataformas: "Una plataforma más abierta are, because plataformas never stand alone and organizaciones". Hence, Esri's platform features open APIs for cross-platform integration. (See the box at the bottom of the page on Portmaps for a good example of this.) Openness also always has open source como connotations. What about Esri? “There are components de código abierto en la plataforma from Esri and the company also contributes to repositories such as Github,” says Van Winden. Esri offers the outside of their platform, things such as connectors, an SDK and entire applications, for example, open source. Customers are also supplied with the necessary open data layers with the software (see box elsewhere on the page). Being open is a good way to be interesting to more parties, who may have come up with their own uses for the implementation of data geographically. El code open source - and then in particular or parties that implement open source - is, however, also the most important competition. “There are componente de código abierto that are comparable to what we supply,” Van Winden admits. However, these are not part of an integrated platform and are therefore more limited in their application. Incidentally, Esri sees this competitiveness mainly in their traditional market, not so much in the new companies that have only recently discovered what is possible with cumple con datos geográficos. At first sight this may sound a bit strange, that especially the parties where GIS is part of the core of their processes, start working se reunió con código abierto. If you consider that there are also people who have studied for it, it also makes sense. These are the people who understand it technically and can actually do something with it.
Agnostisch voor een hybrid wereld
With the introduction of the SaaS offering about 10 years ago, Esri has, as stated, focused strongly on both new and existing markets. Since it also wants to continue to serve the classic GIS market, this means that Esri has not necessarily made life easier for itself. SaaS is not something that many classic customers can consider. Government organizations generally do not want and are not (yet) allowed to take the step to a SaaS environment in the context of privacy, for example. Partly for this reason, hybrid IT infrastructure is almost always chosen in the more traditional GIS markets. Van Winden estimates that about 80 percent of Esri's customers have a hybrid IT infrastructure. With the above in mind, Esri is therefore forced to put a clear focus on the development of a (micro) services-based platform on the one hand, but on the other hand, forced to do quite a bit of research on the other. The customer ultimately decides where he wants to run the platform. At this point, Esri is fortunate to be privately held and to maintain a large budget for construction and maintenance. No less than 30 percent of the turnover goes there. This todos los modelos híbridos actualizados to be able to continue to offer.
Toekomst: nieuwe kaarten, integratie at sensoren
When, at the end of our conversation, we ask Van Winden what is still in store for the future, it is immediately clear that there is still a long way to go. He could cite countless more examples of what is yet to come. The first one that comes to mind is a transition to 3D maps, which has already been deployed but will only accelerate as more useful applications emerge. Part of this is, for example, a further integration with what is underground and with weather models. Sensors and the data generated there will also play an increasingly important role. Furthermore, there are always more and deeper integrations possible with other environments, to make the end result even better. Until tragamonedas Merkt Van Winden en el lugar All corceles goes faster. Thus, nowadays datos generados sobre a city conocido with the help of drones. These new developments have an important consequence, according to Van Winden: "The wish of many organizations to come to a digital twin is thus within everyone's reach". So the data explosion will only get bigger in the future. After all, that is the logical consequence of integrating more data sources, developing a new type of card and being able to generate large amounts of data even faster. For GIS (and Esri) that's only a good thing, because more data means more relevance, since all that data somehow needs to be properly processed and presented in a meaningful way. And let that be precisely what por GIS is all about, among other things.
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