| Hexagon Acquisition of GISquadrat GmbH Enhances Reach of Geospatial for Governments and Utilities in Europe October 6, 2016 by Susan Smith Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure acquired GISquadrat GmbH of Vienna, Austria. The acquisition is aimed at enhancing Hexagon’s geospatial, cloud and mobile solutions for governments and utility providers in Europe as well as bringing in more than 300 customers and thousands of users into the Hexagon fold. Location Intelligence: What is your best Solution? October 5, 2016 by Matt Sheehan I use the term location intelligence (LI) with great caution. Why? I always feel it is still a term which is poorly understood. It really sits under the more general ‘business intelligence’ umbrella. One common definition: Location intelligence (LI) is a business intelligence (BI) tool capability that relates geographic contexts to business data. Like BI, location intelligence software is designed to turn data into insight for a host of business purposes. We often provide a simpler definition: LI is focused on answering business ‘where’ questions. In this blog post we will discuss location intelligence and focus on available solutions. Read the article | 