An International
View on
Environmental Data
Management
Dan Alexander
Vice President, Sales
Scot Weaver
Vice President & Co-Founder
May 15, 2013
ICEDM – Portland, Oregon
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State of the Market – the EarthSoft view
International Viewpoint – EQuIS deployed in 42 countries and on
every continent, except Antarctica. ….too cold I think.
• International growth at a higher rate than domestic
• Overall 2 year growth rate for EarthSoft at 70%, international
revenues account for most of it
• Strong growth areas:
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Canada - Oil Sands and Mining
Australia – Oil & Gas (coal seam gas) and Mining
Europe – broad mix; consultants and industry; money problems
Africa and the Middle East – industrial expansion and regulation
Asia (China and India lead the way) – the word is “cautious”
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State of the Market – the EarthSoft view
US Market
• Steady growth – all sectors – Industry and Consulting lead the
way, Government lagging (funding)
• Shale gas is the largest growing sector in the environmental
market; data management follows
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Market Trends – the EarthSoft view
• Trending toward integrated solutions; workflow automation
– Just a database is not enough; automate environmental data
management workflow to build efficiencies and quality into the
process
• Product Balance - Increasing functionality and capabilities,
improved user experience
• Continue to see application hosting options split between
internal and external
– The Cloud vs on my servers; trending toward the Cloud, but slower
than predicted. (issues – Op Ex vs. Cap Ex, collaboration, IT policy)
– Newest hybrid – Client purchase and Cloud hosted
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Market Trends – the EarthSoft view
• International laboratories – move in the market
– Thinking data management beyond their LIMS
– Providing planning support, field data services, report visualization
tools, client access
– US lab organizations frozen in place
• Government move to standardize
– USEPA working toward an official EQuIS standard (Superfund and
beyond)
– Alberta Environment – working on several fronts; wetlands, water
– International governments – look to the US still
• Build vs. Buy – Buy is winning
– Commercial-off-the-shelf products have improved tremendously
– The difference in cost of ownership is vast
– The processes are enough similar that they can be replicated
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How is EarthSoft responding?
Where is EarthSoft focusing in relation to changing markets and
technology developments?
– Database Updates
– Imports/Exports/Interfaces
– EQuIS DQM
– EQuIS Professional 6
– EQuIS Enterprise 6
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Database Updates
– Flow schema
• dt_flow, dt_flow_measurement
– Advanced auditing
– Advanced security
• Facilities, dashboards, reports
– dt_geography (spatial data type)
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Imports/Exports/Interfaces
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WinLog
StrataExplorer
QuickLog
Forms II Lite
NIRIS/NEDTS
R-Project
SAS
EnviroInsite (next-generation)
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
DQM Settings Data Checks Library
- Existing Checks
- Customized Checks
- User-specific Checks/Criteria
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
Checks can be defined and loaded by EDD
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
DQM Qualification
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
DQM History
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
Data Validation Reports
Qualify By: COC, Field SDG, Lab SDG, or Task
Qualify: Choose one or more criteria containing results, based
upon the “Qualify By” selection.
MAG/QAPP: Must choose one or more MAGs or QAPPs to
compare to the checks.
Checks: May select multiple checks
Save Qualifiers: Save the qualifiers applied in the report back to
DT_RESULT.
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
Data Validation Reports
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EQuIS Data Quality Module (DQM)
Pre-Release 2 Available Today
The default library of qualification checks is available in this prerelease. You can find more information about each of the
qualification checks in the online documentation. DQM is
extensible, so additional checks may be created and added to
the library.
If you are interested, contact help@earthsoft.com.
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Enterprise 6 Customizable Dashboard
This dashboard includes 4 widgets:
• A feed to Esri’s ArcGIS Javascript API
• EarthSoft’s RSS feed
• An EQuIS Live data logger feed
• A chart widget
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Enterprise 6 Customizable Dashboard
Several Dashboards:
• Enterprise EDP (EDP)
• Miscellaneous View Dashboard
• EQuIS Information Agents (EIA)
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