Nessos Informatics S.A. offers an integrated solution for developing GIS applications. The proposed solution is based on the following software solutions:
ESRI ArcGIS
The core of our system utilizes the ArcGIS product family of the top GIS provider worldwide, ESRI. ArcGIS Server provides map services to third applications through web services, while ArcMap is the tool used for building maps.
Database (SQL Server or Oracle)
In the database, spatial information as well as metadata related to map objects are stored for fast lookup and fetch operations.
.ΝΕΤ Framework andNessos Framework
The core technology used is .NET from Microsoft along with the Object-Relational Mapper of Nessos, which simplifies and accelerates significantly the software development cycle.
Nessos DynaGIS
It is a software library that enables interconnection of descriptive metadata to spatial information, in order to facilitate the insertion, management and dynamic fetching. Specifically it offers:
- Dynamic management of map features
- Dynamic linking to external databases
- Dynamic rendering of bitmaps
- Independence from GIS platform
- Fully compatible with Nessos Framework
Microsoft Silverlight
It is the technology used for the user interface. It offers:
- Support for all standard internet browsers with consistent look and feel
- Rich Internet Applications Web 2.0 support
- Native support for the .NET Framework API
The main advantages of the provided GIS solution are:
- Solution based on leading software companies and technologies (Microsoft, ESRI)
- Distributed load balancing
- Scalable architecture
- Independence between spatial database schema and & descriptive metadata