13.11.2014, GUEMLIGEN GIS: DO’S AND DON’TS FOR AUTODESK – WALT SMITH

Welcome in Switzerland

Recent and actual situation from our (AGU) perspective

Mostly negative atmosphere since take-over of Topobase by Autodesk (10 years?)

> 10% were leaving AGU-Switzerland and Autodesk-GIS in the last year !

No real Map3D-GIS-progressions in the last 5 years!

No payback for our GIS-maintainance-fees for the last 10 years!

No new Autodesk-GIS-clients in the last 5-10 years (in Switzerland)!

Autodesk-employees come and go …

Steering committee was a lazy tranquillization committee …

No presence at schools and universities! GIS-music is played by others!

ESRI, Intergraph (and QGIS?) do GIS better – and they progress in 3D!

Convinced recommending of Autodesk-GIS to our customers is not easy.

We are worried! Is our GIS-data in a safe place and harbour at Autodesk?

Do's

• Alternatives for Oracle (crazy licensing)

• GIS =• Administration of as built infrastructure• Centralized, controlled, job-based

• Data processing• Data controlling

• Follow and "copy" the GIS leaders (ESRI, …)

• Respect GIS-datas and GIS-administrators needs • a safe, long-term model and database-harbour• slow but continuous changements• trust in the strategy of the GIS-software-developper

• No Swiss GIS without • Job technology support (mutation)• interlis-format (import and export)• official data models

• Bring GIS-data to GIS-WebViewers and GIS-WebEditors• Web ≠ Cloud, Web ≠ Autodesk360°

• Think about this slide and understand why (European) GIS-data will never follow Autodesks actual BIM-strategy.

Don'ts

• BIM ≠ GIS• We are not interested in designing new infrastructure, it is

already built• GIS is not inventing, GIS is documenting existing

infrastructure

• DWG ≠ GIS• GIS is not designing• GIS in Europe is a lot more than "producing nice looking maps

with different data sources"• GIS in Europe is model-driven and not (yet) 3D

• Make us believe "Forget GIS, do BIM"

• Ignore customers development wishes• Bug fixing ≠ Development

• Ignore international GIS-standards• Stop GIS-development, hold status quo• Workarounds do satisfy your supporters, not clients

• Sell us "GIS in a DWG"• Sell GIS to Europeans in a (US-)Cloud

• Poison for GIS-Data• Annual migrations, annual new releases• Data model changements• Uncertainty about databases, models, strategies

• Base your European GIS-strategy on increasing Map3D-licence-selling by not developping performant WebEditors … others will.

Thanks for your attention, and

be aware, GIS-customers are quite faithful, "lazy", loyal … for a long time

GIS-customers were system- and database-captured … for a long time

data migration to another GIS is still a lot of work, but since data is stored in a official model supported by various GIS-players, the migration to another GIS-system is a normal scenario for Swiss-GIS-users.

Once migrated, a ex-customer won't be back … for a very long time.

Gaining 1 new customer is the same work as keeping 10 customers – Autodesk is free to make its choice where to invest its power.

be sure, AGU Switzerland works with Autodesk in a positive manner when the relation is faithful and honest, not just tranquilizing

no honest relation when we are not well-informed about Autodesk's short and long term GIS-intentions

disclaimer, safe harbour, … ridiculess, only necessary when already athmosphere of distrust

when we (re-)feel the GIS-fire at Autodesk