ARC Advisory Group recently conducted a web-based end user survey to gain a new perspective on trends in Geographic Information System (GIS) adoption, applications and related challenges in India.

This PowerPoint report summarizes the survey results and provides some recommendations for ARC Advisory Services clients.

The results provide a representative sample of the trends in the India GIS market, while also providing useful insights into the global market, applications, and solutions.

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Executive Overview
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Executive Overview
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Last month, China's State Council announced plans to accelerate the new "Made in China 2025" strategy, intended to upgrade the manufacturing sector, encourage innovation, and help maintain economic growth at a medium-to-high level. Government support will include special funding and tax incentives, focusing on 10 industrial sectors.

The electrical power situation in Indonesia could be expressed in a single sentence: "There simply is not enough of it." Increasing economic growth, industrialization and urbanization all serve to boost the demand for electricity across the vast archipelago. However, while the level of supply has improved in the last decade, the industry still struggles to keep up with demand.

This situation will only improve through continued and accelerated construction of power industry infrastructure over the next 15 years.

As reported in an earlier ARC Insight, the theme of the recent 2015 ARC European Forum in Amsterdam, "The Information Driven Enterprise in a Connected World," was intended to help develop some clarity over emerging related concepts, such as Industrie 4.0, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). The previous report focused on specific use cases of Big Data analytics at Intel and Dow Chemical.

The theme of the recent 2015 ARC European Forum in Amsterdam, "The Information Driven Enterprise in a Connected World," was intended to help develop some clarity over emerging related concepts such as Industrie 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). At the Forum, we heard many compelling use cases about how the application of these concepts can deliver tangible benefits in real-world industrial production. In this Insight, we'll focus on two such use cases: a pilot program at Intel for semiconductor manufacturing and one at Dow Chemical.

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Sustainability, one of the most talked about topics in supply chain, often focuses on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, green packaging, raising labor standards, use of renewable resources, and energy efficiency. However, when it comes to sustainability in logistics, transportation garners the maximum attention.

While sustainability practices have not yet gained significant traction in most warehouses and distribution centers (DCs), this may be changing.