IDC's Location and Geospatial Intelligence continuous information service helps product marketing, market intelligence, and strategic planning professionals assess opportunities and positioning in this market. The service also allows end users to explore capabilities of location and geospatial intelligence solutions. This market encompasses data providers, location and geospatial analytics and visualization, mapping, navigation, geospatial developer tools and platforms, and other supporting technologies.
These geospatial enabling components are increasingly integrated with enterprise applications and other systems. In addition, they have become more prominent in overall enterprise analytics. The use cases are wide ranging, and the supply of geospatially enabled data grows at a rapid pace.