BURSWOOD-BASED IT company NGIS is hoping for a sales windfall after securing an international distribution deal for its GeoSamba software.
BURSWOOD-BASED IT company NGIS is hoping for a sales windfall after securing an international distribution deal for its GeoSamba software.
NGIS and its software developer partner iintegrate Systems have secured the services of GeoSolveIT, a UK-based company that will distribute GeoSamba in Europe and the Middle East.
NGIS provides businesses with location-based IT services, known as geospatial information services, and NGIS managing director Paul Farrell described GeoSamba as software that allows business to analyse data visually.
“So a mining company, they’ll have information strewn all over the place, around assets, around their mines, around drilling they’re doing, around tenements they manage, and GeoSamba brings all that together in a map format,” Mr Farrell said.
“People can make decisions very quickly, because the human brain likes visualisation, it likes to see things in pictures and this turns all their data into pictures.”
The GeoSamba deal is the latest step for NGIS as it continues to expand.
The company’s software partner iintegrate Systems started life as NGIS’ research and development division, splitting off in 2005 to form its own operation.
“It’s a company that’s still closely linked with NGIS but it has other shareholders now in that business. It’s its own entity now,” Mr Farrell said.
A number of companies in the US already use NGIS and iintegrate’s other major product, the Indji Watch disaster-alert system.
“Indji is a system that monitors fires and natural hazards and alerts people or active owners if a natural hazard or fire is approaching. In places where fires and natural hazards are a big thing it’s very important,” Mr Farrell said.
He hopes the technology may soon be used in the WA’s bushfire-prone South West.
Mr Farrell won a WA Business News 40under40 Award in 2002, and in 2006 was a regional finalist for the Ernst & Young Australian Entrepreneur of the Year awards.
He said NGIS downsized during the GFC, but used the time to restructure and prepare for future growth.
“We took the opportunity to remodel how we engage with our staff. As the organisation grew we grew very quickly and we saw some frayed edges,” he said.
“But now we’ve taken a step back a little bit, we’ve restructured a little bit so when we do grow again, we’re better set up for growth.”