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GBS gains Esri Release Ready Specialty

GBS gains Esri Release Ready Specialty GBS is pleased to announce that we have been awarded the Esri Release Ready Specialty. Esri partners who have the Release Ready Specialty are recognised as being committed to keeping pace with the ever-growing Esri technology stack, as well as delivering Esri based solutions, services or content to organisations across their enterprise […]

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Spatial Data Science – What is it? (part 3)

Data Science with R & Esri (part 3) By GBS’ Spatial Data Scientist, Phil Donovan TLDR: Esri have now integrated R into ArcPro which brings one of the most advanced data science environments with one of the most advanced geospatial analysis environments. R for Esri “R? Oh, no! Not another tech tool I need to […]

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Spatial Data Science – What is it? (Part 2)

Spatial Data Science – What is it? (Part 2) Classifying our world Blog mini-series by Phil Donovan, GBS Spatial Data Scientist  Spatial data science is being applied all over the world and being used to enhance both large and small organisations globally. But how can it help you? In this blog post I want to provide […]

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Spatial Data Science – What is it? (part 1)

Spatial Data Science – What is it? What is data science, and what is a data scientist? Blog mini-series by Phil Donovan, GBS Spatial Data Scientist  Data science is a term that has burst into many of our lives, both in IT and everyday conversations over the last few years. It is a buzz word […]

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Spatial Data Science – A Mini Series

Spatial Data Science – What is it? Blog mini-series by Phil Donovan, GBS Spatial Data Scientist  GBS’ Phil Donovan has written a blog mini series defining Spatial Data Science. What is it, what is a data scientist, who uses data science and how is it applied in a geospatial sense? Click through to each part of […]

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NZ Esri User Conference 2019 feat: Vlogs

NZ Esri User Conference 2019 featuring Vlogs from the GBS team The NZ Esri User Conference 2019 (NZEUC) – the largest annual gathering of the NZ GIS community – is a must-attend event to hear first-hand about the strategic Esri direction and technical advances in GIS for 2020 and beyond. With the uptake of Cloud […]

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San Diego Esri User Conference 2019: Vlogs

San Diego Esri User Conference , 2019 The annual San Diego Esri User Conference took place this year from July 8th – 12th. In previous years we’ve blogged retrospectively about our key learnings and take-aways from the event, but this year we are keeping ahead of the curve with a series of ‘vlogs’ to discuss […]

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GBS Korea: Developing an International Business in Asia

GBS Korea has now been operational for a year. Over that time, we have faced some challenges and broken some new territory with GBSK now starting to get some solid traction. GBSK has completed some small projects and is now undertaking some larger projects as we build our expertise and credibility. Below are 5 key […]

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Celebrating the First Birthday of Waahi

This month, we celebrate the first birthday of Waahi, our web-based geospatial viewer solution which is based on Esri’s Web AppBuilder. As early as July 2016, a few like-minded colleagues and the GBS directors got together to identify a gap in the local government market where clients needed an easy mechanism to share, access and […]

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Welcome back – Arun Sebastian

Returning to GBS, Arun has re-joined the team as a Senior Developer/Consultant.  With over 10 years experience as a full stack GIS developer in open source technologies, he was quickly “Esri-fied” and has been successful in applying his knowledge and programming skills into Esri projects.  Throughout this time he been part of several projects in domains local governance, […]

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