IDV Solutions partnership with The Gartrell Group

13 April 2010, 8:43pm

Lansing, MI – April 13, 2010 - IDV Solutions, maker of Visual Fusion enterprise mashup and data visualization software, today announced a new partnership with The Gartrell Group, a Portland, Oregon-based provider of GIS solutions and consulting.

The Gartrell Group will incorporate Visual Fusion into location intelligence solutions for public sector clients from all levels of government, and private sector clients in fields that include energy, utilities, banking, transportation, real estate, and health care. Visual Fusion is a platform for creating applications that integrate enterprise data, Web services, and unmanaged workgroup files into a single view. It enables multiple types of visualizations, including maps, timelines, heat maps, data grids and charts.

“The Gartrell Group is delighted about this partnership and the benefits it will bring to our clients,” said Bryce Gartrell, Principal with the Gartrell Group. “In our work with the IDV team, we’re finding some compelling ways to harness core GIS horsepower to Visual Fusion’s terrific location intelligence and presentation capabilities. The IDV partnership adds new dimensions to our hosted and managed services, mobile GIS capabilities, and options for powerful business intelligence integration. This is good stuff!”

“IDV is very pleased to partner with The Gartrell Group," said Dan Shaver, Director of Commercial Sales at IDV. "The combination of our software and their GIS expertise is a natural fit. We believe Visual Fusion will bring enhanced value to their customers as they seek to integrate business intelligence and location intelligence—an area where Visual Fusion excels."

About The Gartrell Group

The Gartrell Group delivers GIS and location intelligence solutions to customers in both the private and public sectors. Founded in 2003 and based in Oregon, the company focuses on providing hosted GIS data and applications; integrating business intelligence and GIS systems; developing Web, desktop, and mobile applications, GIS analysis and strategy development.

About IDV Solutions

IDV Solutions is an enterprise software company committed to helping Global 2000 and government organizations make their information more accessible, understandable, and contextual. Their suite of products, Visual Fusion, forms an enterprise mashup platform for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of SharePoint. This software empowers everyone in an organization to create interactive, geospatial mashups from unlimited sources of data. It provides a streamlined platform for building Enterprise 2.0 apps that drive agility, collaboration, and insight.

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