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PRESS RELEASE: Serving OS MasterMap to the UK higher and further education communities.

By Melissa on January 20, 2010 9:20 AM | No Comments

As EDiNA’s highly successful Digimap service celebrates its ten year anniversary, Snowflake Software celebrates the success of GO Publisher WFS, which provides the infrastructure behind the scenes.

 

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The challenge for EDiNA was to provide a scalable, robust and reliable service delivering over 500 million OS MasterMap® features in GML to over 32,000 users from 148 educational institutions throughout the United Kingdom.   
The solution was to implement a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on OGC® standards delivered using Snowflake Software’s GO Loader and GO Publisher WFS off-the-shelf products.
The results have been clear, with a trouble-free launch of the fully-working service with users productive from day one.  Average response times of 15 minutes and all requested datasets supplied online within 48 hours. Additionally, it’s highly scalable and proven to meet peak loads.
 
 
 
 
Andrew Seales, Senior Software Engineer at EDiNA comments,
“We needed to be in a position to incorporate other GML products in the future and the generic approach of GO Loader and GO Publisher gave us that.”
 
 
EDiNA is now able to achieve its goals and make OS MasterMap more accessible and widely distributed than ever before. And with the generic approach of the Snowflake Software, the Digimap service is future proofed for new GML products.
 
Read the EDiNA digimap article in full: www.snowflakesoftware.com/news/testimonials.htm
 
 
GO Publisher WFS and GO Loader are available for customers to download for free, with a thirty day licence. 
 
If you’re interested in a risk free investment then you can download the free trials here:
 
For more information about Snowflake Software, please visit www.snowflakesoftware.com or contact Melissa Burns on +44 (0)23 8038 2390
 
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PRESS RELEASE: Snowflake Software launches free GO Publisher Community Edition

By Melissa on November 24, 2009 2:46 PM | No Comments

To support the launch of its free GO Publisher Community Edition product, Snowflake Software will be running a 45 minute webinar to demonstrate key features and take any questions. Registration for the event is open now.

Snowflake Software today launched GO Publisher Community Edition.  A new addition to the market leading GO Publisher suite of tools, this free product allows customers to benefit from the powerful publishing and translation capabilities of the GO Publisher range at no cost, without time restriction and for commercial use.
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GO Publisher offers a range of benefits and the Community Edition will be no different:
  • Publish to open standards with one out of the box solution
    • Quick, easy and almost instant productivity
  •  Build a community for data exchange
    • Create a schema and publish to that schema for others to share via open standards
  •  Participate in a wider data eXchange community
    • Translate and publish data to existing  schemas for hassle free data sharing
  • Publish INSPIRE compliant data
    • Translate and publish data to all of the INSPIRE Annex 1 themes
  • Visualise your data in Google, Bing or Yahoo! maps
    •  Extend the reach of your data by publishing to KML – the language of  consumer mapping applications
Eddie Curtis, CTO and Product Manager remarked:
“GO Publisher Community Edition breaks down potential barriers for data exchange and offers users a low risk option that works with their existing infrastructure at no cost. It unlocks the potential for wider data exchange in the industry and makes the benefits more widely accessible, and with the community forum, more widely discussed”
He added:
“Anyone wishing to obtain a copy of GO Publisher Community Edition should register for our launch webinar where I’ll be demonstrating the new software, customers can familiarise themselves with the interface and features and I’ll announce how users can get their free licence.”
Join the webinar
The webinar will take place on Friday 4 December from 14:00 - 14:45 (GMT). Eddie Curtis, CTO and Product Manager at Snowflake Software will be presenting at the event and taking questions. Anyone wishing to understand more about GO Publisher Community Edition and get their free licence should attend.  Attendees need to register for the webinar prior to the event and registration is open now: https://snowflakesoftware.webex.com/snowflakesoftware/j.php?ED=131057117&RG=1&UID=0
 
To pre register for the GO Publisher Community Edition, please visit: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/gopublisher/desktop/community/index.htm
For more information about GO Publisher, please visit: http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/gopublisher/index.htm
For more information about Snowflake Software, please visit www.snowflakesoftware.com or contact Melissa Burns on +44 (0)23 8038 2390

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Press Release: Snowflake Software unveils INSPIRE ready technology at AGI conference

By Melissa on October 2, 2009 2:49 PM | 2 Comments
Snowflake Software demonstrates how customers can get more for less with the launch of their future proof INSPIRE ready technology, saving customers unnecessary costs.
The releases of the company’s two core products provide an out of the box platform for organisations to realise the value of INSPIRE compliance, as well as future proof their existing technology infrastructure and eliminate the threat of unnecessary software development or upgrade costs.
At the conference, where ‘realising the value of place’ was the theme, Snowflake demonstrated the power of its data exchange software by loading Annex 1 INSPIRE data with the latest release of its GO Loader software, which can then be used with a customer’s own existing infrastructure. Conversely, with the new release of its GO Publisher software, Snowflake showcased its capabilities to publish data to final draft INSPIRE data specifications which were released less than a week ago. The latest enhancements to both products have been rigorously tested as part of the EC’s Joint Research Centre INSPIRE testing initiative and both were successfully used by leading organisations across Europe to produce GML 3.2.1 datasets compliant to the Annex 1 Themes.
Eddie Curtis, CTO of Snowflake Software says:
“From its very beginnings Snowflake has been a leader in adopting OGC and ISO standards. The engineering work to support INSPIRE and GML 3.2.1 is a natural evolution for our products rather than a revolutionary change. Both GO Loader and GO Publisher have been providing business critical data exchange and management for organisations across Europe working with topographic mapping, transport, geology, meteorology to name just a few types of data. The productivity, performance and experience by those users can now be applied to achieving INSPIRE compliance.”
Whilst INSPIRE support is a key feature of the new releases, it is not the only new addition. Experts from Snowflake Software also took the opportunity to unveil the capacity to manage data in a choice of databases, and the opportunity to extend the reach of data by publishing into consumer mapping applications such as Bing™, Yahoo!™ or Google™.
Ian Painter, Managing Director commented:
“We’re excited that our new products will enable organisations across Europe to realise the value of INSPIRE in a pioneering way and starting today. The industry moves at such a pace that it is often costly and resource intensive for companies to embrace innovative and legislative technology. We’re pleased to be able to offer customers the opportunity to get more for less with our future proof software.”
For organisations that require additional support in understanding the complexities of the INSPIRE legislation, Snowflake has a dedicated INSPIRE section on their website and a tailored training programme to help client’s bridge the gap between initiative and implementation.
Existing customers with a valid maintenance and support contract can obtain these new versions at no additional cost through the Snowflake Support Centre. Organisations new to Snowflake’s products can obtain a fully supported 30 day evaluation by registering on the website. 
To register for a 30 day evaluation of GO Loader visit:
http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/goloader/eval.htm
To register for a 30 day evaluation of GO Publisher visit:
http://www.snowflakesoftware.com/products/gopublisher/desktop/eval.htm
For more information about GO Loader or GO Publisher, please visit www.snowflakesoftware.com or contact Melissa Burns on +44 (0)23 8038 6574

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