Geospatial Business System: ERDAS provides a global geospatial solution, designed for desktop and enterprise use.  ERDAS solutions cannot only be used across the enterprise, but outside of the enterprise as well, extending information to and from the field, to business partners and across the Web. A geospatial business system meets the full spectrum of an organization’s requirements, transforming geospatial data into information useful for decision-making processes. The specific components and capabilities include:

• Authoring: Transforming source data into products, including orthos, terrain, features, maps, 3D data, land cover data and processing models
• Managing: Finding, describing, cataloging and publishing data and web services
• Connecting: Linking users within an organization, allowing the rapid sharing of content throughout the organization or business to business.
• Delivering – Subscription, mobile and web services which contain value-added content delivered to a variety of domain-specific and business applications.

Comprehensive feature set and functionality: ERDAS offers a broad range of geospatial information technology, delivering the most comprehensive solutions in image exploitation, processing, visualization and data management. ERDAS’ complete and comprehensive solution set include automated capabilities and functionality built into the system, visualization and delivery, vector editing and topology and Web services, to name a few.

• Managing change: ERDAS solutions provide for better managing of information around the changing earth—authoring and maintaining fresh up-to-date content that can be used as the source for creating information products.
• Social Networking: ERDAS helps dynamically connect users to one another inside an organization while also connecting organizations to one another (B2B)

Open and interoperable: The ERDAS platform is open and standards compliant, enabling other solutions and technologies to plug into it, while providing extensibility to build vertical market solutions. Additionally, this allows ERDAS solutions to plug into other existing platforms. The enterprise geospatial platform is built according to industry standards and works together seamlessly with other business systems.

• The new (business) users speak in terms of business needs, requiring a solution that integrates with their existing software applications. This is what ERDAS delivers.

Single platform: Built on a single J2EE platform, the enterprise solutions built by ERDAS are based on a SOA architecture. This provides flexibility in providing unique geospatial business systems for a variety of vertical market solutions.

Accessible: Accessible on site, remotely and via the Web, users can more quickly and easily utilize and manage geospatial information, reducing redundancy and creating data more efficiently.

Easy-to-use: With intuitive interfaces, users are able to get up and running with minimal training, making it easier for them to do their jobs. Professionals new to geospatial information can use the information to do their job better without being geospatial experts.

Performance/speed: ERDAS solutions easily handle large data sources with increased performance. Regardless of data size, ERDAS solutions rapidly and efficiently author, manage, connect and deliver geospatial information.

Flexible/customizable: ERDAS solutions are highly flexible, customizable and scalable to handle very large volumes of data, as well as a large number of simultaneous users. The ERDAS platform has been configured to provide greater flexibility for customers to integrate, tailor and extend solutions for use in any vertical market.

Business intelligence: With ERDAS, organizations have improved visibility into all information and projects. Users can query a variety of data, which improves decision making on a day-to-day basis. Decisions are then more strategic and integrated with other corporate business objectives, helping you get the most value from your geospatial data.

• By incorporating geospatial technology into an existing business system, vast quantities of data become useable information, fully equipped to serve an organization cross-departmentally and in the B2B context.

Security: With a greater number of users accessing data stores of geospatial information, ERDAS has taken great care to put security measures in place to monitor and control user access, encrypt data and monitor transactions.

Accuracy: With the most rigorous tools for modeling, managing and understanding data production workflows, ERDAS ensures fidelity of geospatial content throughout the lifecycle of geospatial information.