Geospatial Information Systems

The Geospatial Information Systems Market Research delivers current market analysis plus a five year market and technology forecast.  The research also takes a closer look at upcoming market and technology trends and automation systems related to GIS. It is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.

Geospatial Information Systems Market Growth Driven by Migration to the Cloud

ARC Advisory Group's research on the geospatial information systems (GIS) market indicates that the market continues to expand, with ARC forecasting a significant compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over the next five years. Geospatial information systems provide spatial data entry, management, retrieval, analysis, and visualization functions. GISs also integrate hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.

Geospatial Information Systems Strategic Issues and Market Trends

Geospatial Information SystemsIn addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the GIS Market Research Report provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues as follows.

Integrate Geospatial Information Systems with Sensor Networks

Geospatial information systems are being integrated with sensor networks that precisely measure real-time changes, such as temperature, soil moisture, water flows, microclimates, plant growth, and other conditions. These sensor networks are being connected directly into GIS, such as the hydrologic information system developed by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) and sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation. This has a major impact on natural resource management, but its application is being tested across a number of other industry sectors, including water and wastewater.

GIS Has Gone Mainstream

GIS is a technology that was once considered too specialized to fall within the domain of the information science department. However, it has now become just another application in mainstream IT. A sure indicator of this trend is that most of the GIS software providers have web-enabling tools already available. Also, users no longer need to be specialists to work with or use GIS. A few small companies have already started to offer the ability to conduct complex spatial queries with enterprise data through a web interface. These companies host data and even combine it with other third-party data resources. As GIS becomes mainstream, the number of business users is likely to grow in the coming years.

Need for Interoperability

There is a strong need for standards like open geospatial consortium (WEB map service) and web feature services. For GIS to support a digitized automated workflow, real-time data needs to be transferred between field sensors and office solutions without any information loss, and this has increased the need for interoperability.

Adoption of Geoengineering

GIS products are no longer restricted to spatial management or location data management. To maximize opportunities in regions that are ramping up infrastructure development, some major vendors are enhancing their offerings to support engineering projects, involving themselves in even the design and construction phases.

Market Data Research Available Datasets

This in-depth market data research is split into two key modules: Market Growth Outlook and Competitive Analysis.  Each of these modules is further configured into several sub-modules to meet the needs of executives as well as marketing, sales, and product development managers.  All of these modules and sub-modules may be purchased as a bundle or separately.  A brief description of these modules, sub-modules, and their use cases is included below.

Market Growth Outlook

ARC’s market growth outlook service delivers an in-depth market opportunity analysis including five-year market and technology forecasts and 3-year history trend lines where available. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.  

This service is designed to help accelerate your organization's ability to understand an up-to-date view of the market opportunity provided by your current product portfolio and analyze how your company’s market opportunity would change if you were to acquire or divest a particular product line. The service will also help you identify and capitalize on emerging markets, whether these markets are based on an emerging technology, region, vertical industry, or application. Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying the opportunities provided by emerging trends. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of market growth opportunity analyses for nearly four decades also provides greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market growth outlook services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.  

In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet your specific needs.  For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.

ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market opportunities designed to help executives quickly identify key trends and market opportunities around the world.  In-depth market opportunity analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific market information to plan marketing and product development strategies.  The following table shows more specific information included in each version.

Market Growth Outlook AnalysisUse CasesTarget Role
Worldwide Market Growth Outlook by Industry & Region with 3-year history where availableIn-depth technology-specific strategic growth planning across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industriesProduct & Marketing Managers
Worldwide Industry Growth Outlook by Region with 3-year history where availableStrategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industriesIndustry Managers
Regional/Country Market Growth Outlook by Technology & Industry with 3-year history where available (includes country data)Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple world regionsRegional & Country Sales Managers
Market Growth Outlook Executive ViewStrategic Total Available Market (TAM) growth planning dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regionsExecutives
Market Competitive Analysis

ARC’s Competitive Analysis services deliver in depth competitive analyses across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries.  Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.  

This service is designed to help product and marketing managers identify their company’s market positioning across multiple views within their Serviceable Available Market (SAM). Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying how their company’s market position would change if the company were to acquire or divest a particular product line or technology. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of competitive market benchmarking for nearly four decades lends greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market competitive services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.  

In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet the specific needs of our clients.  For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.

ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market competitive analyses designed to help executives quickly assess their SAM by world region, technology, or vertical industry. In-depth competitive market analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific benchmarking information to plan marketing and product development strategies.  The following table shows more specific information included in each version. 

Competitive AnalysisUse CasesTarget Role
Worldwide Competitive Analysis by TechnologyIn-depth competitive market analysis that quantifies how your company’s market position has changed over time across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industriesProduct & Marketing Managers
Worldwide Competitive Analysis by IndustryStrategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industriesIndustry Managers
Regional/Country Competitive Analysis by IndustryStrategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple world regionsRegional Sales Managers
Competitive Analysis Executive ViewStrategic Serviceable Available Market (SAM) analysis dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regionsExecutives

Worldwide Research Focus Areas

Strategic Analysis

  • Executive Overview
  • Market Trends
  • Buyer Strategies
  • Supplier Strategies
  • Growth Contributors and Inhibitors

Competitive Analysis

  • Market Shares of the Leading Suppliers
  • Market Shares by Region
    • North America
    • Europe, Middle East, Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
  • Market Shares by Revenue Type
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Services
    • Software as a Service
  • Market Shares by Project Size
    • Small (<$250K)
    • Medium ($250K - $1M)
    • Large (>$1M)
  • Market Shares by Industry
    • Electric Power T&D
    • Engineering & Business Services (AEC)
    • Government
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Retail
    • Telecommunications
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Market Shares by Sales Channel

Market Forecasts and Histories

  • Total Geospatial Information Systems Business
  • Shipments by Region
    • North America
    • Europe, Middle East, Africa
    • Asia
    • Latin America
  • Shipments by Revenue Type
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Services
    • Software as a Service
  • Shipments by Project Size
    • Small (<$250K)
    • Medium ($250K - $1M)
    • Large (>$1M)
  • Shipments by Industry
    • Electric Power T&D
    • Engineering & Business Services (AEC)
    • Government
    • Mining
    • Oil & Gas
    • Retail
    • Telecommunications
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • Water & Wastewater
  • Shipments by Sales Channel

Industry Participants

The research identifies all relevant suppliers serving this market.

Regional Research Focus Areas

Strategic Analysis

Competitive Analysis

  • Leading Suppliers in Region
  • Industry Shares in Region
  • Country Shares in Region
  • Leading Suppliers by Industry

Market History & Forecast Analysis 

  • Market History & Forecast by Country
  • Market History & Forecast by Industry

Industry Participants

List of countries & currencies included in each region: MIRA-Country

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