Aragon Housing Association selects Cadcorp SIS...

21 February 2008, 5:27pm

Aragon Housing Association selects Cadcorp SIS to replace its existing GIS facilities

New GIS will benefit association’s core business processes through its advanced spatial analysis capabilities

Digital mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) software developer, Cadcorp, has announced that Aragon Housing Association has recently awarded it a contract for the supply and implementation of multiple licences of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System software. The new software replaces Aragon Housing Association’s existing GIS facilities from another vendor.

“One of the main reasons for switching to Cadcorp SIS was that to increase the spatial analysis and database functionality of our existing system to the level we require for the future would have been too costly,” states Graeme Gould, GIS officer, Aragon Housing Association. “With Cadcorp SIS we are getting the required level of functionality at a much more affordable cost, which means that our GIS budget stretches further.”

Aragon’s existing vector datasets, including OS MasterMap Topographic Layer base-mapping and OS MasterMap Address Layer 2, are stored in a PostgreSQL/PostGIS spatial database. Cadcorp SIS is being used to access this data, to map the association’s properties and to analyse various factors involved in the running of its core business. For example, in addition to mapping the location of properties, Cadcorp SIS is also used to map incidents of anti-social behaviour to enable the association to direct resources to where they are most needed. In addition, it enables association staff to access and to view a core catalogue of data such as floor plans, environmental reports and photographs relating to each of Aragon’s properties.

Among the benefits that Aragon Housing Association is expecting from the new Cadcorp SIS-based GIS are; the ability to analyse data spatially and to examine the relationships between its properties, society and the way in which its tenancies are managed; improved management of its property maintenance and repair programmes and contracts; improved access to the organisation’s data; and better customer service through improved information sharing.

“We are delighted that Aragon Housing Association has joined our growing list of housing association customers by choosing Cadcorp SIS to replace its old GIS,” said Mike O’Neil, managing director, Cadcorp. “We look forward to working with Aragon’s own experts to help them realise their ambitions in terms of applying GIS to the benefit of the business.”

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