For many South Africans, the phrase, “Just look at it on Google Street View” is commonplace and quite simple to do. However, the majority of smaller towns and rural municipalities are either represented by stale, outdated imagery (up to nine years old), or are completely excluded from street view coverage. This may not impose any […]
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) embarked on infrastructure modernisation to re-engineer its digital environment into modern facilities, including the introduction of cloud capability. It has now implemented the next key phase in creating this ecosystem, building its biggest cloud infrastructure to date, in partnership with Huawei, IBM and Gijima. SITA’s cloud computing programme gave […]
Asite’s cloud platform, Adoddle, has won an award at the 2017 Construction Computing Awards for the Best Use of IT on an Infrastructure Project on Thames Tideway Tunnel, and runner up for Best Collaboration Project. The awards showcase and reward the technology, tools, solutions and highlights the leaders of technology in the AEC industry. Now […]
Microsoft and its Azure customers now have direct access to TomTom location services natively integrated into the Microsoft Azure Cloud platform. As part of Azure LBS, customers can employ a wide array of TomTom API services, including search and geocoding, routing, traffic and maps. Microsoft’s adoption of the data provider’s location technology into its LBS […]
Bentley Systems has introduced the company’s iModel 2.0 cloud platform and its first new service, iModelHub, to accelerate digital workflows for users of its ProjectWise Design Integration services. Without requiring changes to existing BIM applications or processes, the iModelHub cloud service, invoking application-specific “iModel bridges” triggered automatically by ProjectWise, synchronises and distributes changes made through […]
AAM, a geospatial services company specialising in the collection, analysis, presentation and delivery of geospatial information, introduced its cloud platform, Geocirrus. The cloud GIS software delivers spatial information, tools and applications to help users make better decisions. It allows users to stream content, analyse patterns, solve problems and share their ideas and maps, all […]
Construction software developer Bentley Systems recently demonstrated its Connect Edition software solutions at its Connection Seminars in Johannesburg on 1 June 2017. The seminars looked at the benefits of a comprehensive and connected modelling environment, with the company focussing on its MicroStations, ProjectWise and AssetWise range. ContextCapture, reality modelling software which create virtual models through […]
Trimble and Hitachi Construction Machinery are partnering to improve the interoperability of technologies and data for civil engineering and construction projects. As part of the collaboration, Hitachi Construction Machinery will use interfaces from Trimble Connect software, a cloud-based collaboration ecosystem, to develop an intelligent platform for its customers. The collaboration is in response to […]
TomTom and Microsoft will partner to bring enterprise-grade location-based services to Microsoft’s Azure platform, based on TomTom’s maps, traffic and navigation software. The mapping plans to integrate its services into Azure to make it even easier and more flexible for developers to build and manage enterprise, mobile, web and Internet of Things applications that […]
Siemens plans to make its open IoT ecosystem MindSphere available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform during the course of 2017. MindSphere enables industrial enterprises to improve the efficiency of plants through the acquisition and analysis of large quantities of production data. The two companies plan to offer the MindSphere platform and affiliated apps on […]
