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Forte Selected to Deliver Maintenance and Enhancements for BC Government’s Geographic Data Warehouse Distribution Service
October 25, 2011 - Following a public RFP process, the British Columbia Ministry of Labour, Citizens’ Services and Open Government has awarded Forte Consulting Ltd. a contract to perform maintenance and develop enhancements to its Data Warehouse Distribution Service (DWDS).
The DWDS is the self-service corporate tool allowing clients (i.e. public, industry and government) to order and download BC Government spatial and attribute data from the BC Geographic Warehouse. The technical architecture of the DWDS is based on Java, Oracle, SDE, FME, WebADE / SSL Siteminder.
About Forte Consulting
Founded in 2003, Forte Consulting Limited provides specialized consulting services in geospatial information management, data warehousing and GIS systems integration to help our clients find solutions to meet their business challenges and work more effectively.
For more information please visit www.forteconsulting.ca.
Forte Consultants FME Certified
Safe Software Grants FME Certification to Forte Consultants
August 22, 2011 - Forte Consulting is pleased to announce that consultants Patricia Kneen and Bart Mooney have achieved Certified FME® Professional status. Designed for consultants and integrators, the Certified FME Professional accreditation recognizes individuals with a proven ability to provide knowledgeable FME support and consulting services. Building on the foundation laid by Forte co-founder and widely recognized FME expert David van Blankenstein, Forte’s entire Victoria-based team are now accredited as Certified FME Professionals.
"These certifications further formalize our position as specialists in the ETL marketplace, and specifically reaffirm our deep skills and experience with Safe Software’s suite of FME tools.” said Forte’s Mr. van Blankenstein. “It also represents our ongoing commitment to developing our data integration practice by delivering solutions based on proven technology supported by technical expertise that is second to none.”
About Forte Consulting
Founded in 2003, Forte Consulting Limited provides specialized consulting services in geospatial information management, data warehousing and GIS systems integration to help our clients find solutions to meet their business challenges and work more effectively.
For more information please visit www.forteconsulting.ca.
About Safe Software and FME
Established in 1993, Safe Software is the maker of FME, the only true spatial ETL (extract, transform and load) platform that enables organizations to use and leverage spatial data in any format or application. Today, FME is used by thousands of customers in over 116 countries in a wide variety of industries.
FME provides the most extensive format support and powerful transformations to help organizations efficiently address the complete spectrum of spatial ETL tasks - from data translation and transformation to federation and distribution. Used by most GIS, CAD, ETL, and DB vendors, FME has emerged as the de facto integrated spatial ETL solution. FME is available in desktop and server solutions, and is also easily integrated into third-party CAD and GIS solutions, as well as most IT environments. Visit www.safe.com for more information.
FME is a registered trademark of Safe Software Inc. All other product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Forte Consulting Retained to Maintain the ILRR
July
15, 2011 - Following a public RFP process, the British
Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations has awarded
Forte Consulting Ltd. the contract to maintain the Integrated Land and Resource
Registry (ILRR) application. Forte
Consulting was a key member of the multi-company consortium that originally
designed and implemented the ILRR, and Forte has been responsible for
maintenance of the system since 2008.
The ILRR (www.ilrr.ca) provides a
single source for querying land and resource related rights and interests on
crown land in British Columbia. The ILRR system integrates data encompassing
over 300 different land interest types housed within 20 operational government
systems that are being managed by several different Interest Granting Agencies
across the province. The technical architecture of the ILRR is comprised of a sophisticated
suite of tools including J2EE, Oracle 10g, Esri ArcSDE, Esri ArcIMS, Safe
Software’s FME, GML and the Internet Mapping Framework.
Forte Completes GIS Strategic Review for City of Nanaimo
Forte Consulting was selected by the City of Nanaimo, British Columbia, to conduct a strategic review of their GIS systems. The scope of this assignment included gathering current and future departmental GIS requirements, identifying and evaluating solution architecture alternatives that would meet the needs of the City, and developing a three year GIS Implementation Plan based on the recommended solution.
MACA ATLAS System Migrated to ArcGIS Server
Forte recently completed the migration of the Administration of the Territorial Land Acts System (ATLAS) from ArcIMS to ArcGIS Server for Municipal and Community Affairs (MACA), Government of the Northwest Territories.
ATLAS provides access to parcel mapping and related property information for communities across the Northwest Territories. The system supports MACA's vision of providing more autonomy and authority to Community Governing Authorities over the management of land within their boundaries.
2010 Legacies Now BC Activity Reporter Live
Forte recently completed development of the online BC Activity Reporter (BCAR) for 2010 Legacies Now (www.2010LegaciesNow.com) and the Province of British Columbia. This application allows a broad range of stakeholder agencies to report on participation in sport and recreation programs across British Columbia using an intuitive Web-enabled reporting and map interface. Once registered with BCAR, members upload their participation data and are able to create custom sport and recreation reports by neighbourhood, municipality or province-wide.
The BCAR application was developed using MapGuide 2010, Safe Software's FME, Google Maps, Jasper Reports and MySQL.
District of Mission GIS Data Migration Completed
Forte has completed the migration of the District of Mission's spatial data assets from Microstation files to an ESRI Geodatabase in ArcSDE.
This assignment included developing a new logical and physical GIS data model for the District that aligned with their requirements for ongoing data maintenance using ArcGIS and end user data presentation and querying via ArcServer. Forte then developed scripts using Safe Software's Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) to perform the translation to the new GIS data model.
In addition, key property attribute data were migrated from the District's existing proprietary environment to MS SQLServer so that these data may be queried in conjuction with the GIS parcel data via a web enabled ArcServer mapping interface.
Yellowknife GIS / Document Management Tool Released
Forte has completed work on a new application tool set for the City of Yellowknife that integrates ESRI's ArcIMS environment with the City's Hummingbird Document Management System.
Built as an extension to the City's successful cityExplorer Internet mapping application, this newly implemented tool suite provides two way communication between the browser-based map and the document management environment, as well as easy to use functionality to create and maintain linkages between GIS features and Hummingbird managed documents.
Development of Yellowknife GIS/DM Tool Begins
Forte has begun work on a new application tool set for the City of Yellowknife that will integrate ESRI's ArcIMS environment with their Hummingbird Document Management System.
The new application will extend and build on the success of the existing cityExplorer Internet mapping application which is used daily by Yellowknife staff and the public to access a broad range of the City's business data via the GIS.
Forte Victoria Moves to New Office
We are pleased to announce that Forte Consulting's offices in Victoria have relocated to larger premises within the historic Yarrow Building downtown.
Our new address is:
Suite 208, 645 Fort Street
Victoria, BC
V8W 1G2
Forte Awarded ILRR Maintenance Contract
Following a public RFP process, the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has awarded Forte Consulting Ltd. the contract to maintain the Integrated Land and Resource Registry (ILRR) application.
The ILRR (www.ilrr.ca) provides a single source for querying land and resource related rights and interests on crown land in British Columbia. The ILRR system integrates data encompassing over 300 different land interest types housed within 20 operational government systems that are being managed by 19 different Interest Granting Agencies across the province. The technical architecture of the ILRR is comprised of a sophisticated suite of tools including J2EE, Oracle 10g, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, FME, GML and the Internet Mapping Framework.
Forte Recognised as Industry Leader in FME
Forte Director David van Blankenstein has been recognised by Safe Software as an FME Certified Professional.
This exclusive designation places David and Forte among an elite group of professionals in North America that have been recognised by Safe for their industry leading knowledge in implementing successful FME based solutions.
About Safe Software & FME
Established in 1993, Safe Software is the maker of FME, the only true spatial ETL (extract, transform and load) platform that enables organizations to use and leverage spatial data in any format or application. FME is used by thousands of customers in over 116 countries in a wide variety of industries.