Importance of Information System | Report

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Importance of Information System
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Importance of Information System in Ordnance Survey
Introduction to IT at the Company
In Great Britain, the Ordnance Survey is a famous national mapping agency. The
offerings of the company starts from route planning which is totally on the online platform,
business related to products that are depends on the access of the location, develops the digital
map data, shares the services of routing planning with consumers as well as to the government.
In the year 2013, Ordnance Survey has launched their official application named as
OSMapFinder (Ballatore and Bertolotto 2015). The application is accessible to all however, it is
not maintained by the company. The have also came up with three other application and those
are OS Maps Web, OS Maps and OS Locate. The availability of OS Map Web is on the web, the
web browser allows to access this web page, plan for a particular route and then print the route in
a hard copy (Visser 2014). This is quite similar to their mobile application. The second
application is the OS Maps, this application is accessible from both Android and iOS. The
feature of the application enables the user to have direct access from the mobile phones, planning
of the route is available and eventually recording the route and sharing it. The application is
available for free, with the feature of using it offline whenever required. The usability of the
application is independent of internet.
The wide range of services that Ordnance offers are map generalization and automated
data, services related to land administration, geospatial advisory, asset management and data
consultancy for Smart city. In order to provide these services in real time, a strong Information
Technology infrastructure is required by the company (Oloo and Van der Krapf 2015). The
various components of network and software are for the purposes of analyzing the route and
provide favorable solutions to the users. The software that the company uses of three types which

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are premium software, open source and web based software. Some examples of premium
software are RouteFinder, CadCorp, Network analyst, TRACC and Mainfols (Page, Langford
and Higgs 2019). The commonly used open source software are SmartVRP, Network X, etc.
Lastly, the web based are Mapumental, Mapbox, Graphhopper and many. It uses a large scale
dataset that contains all the information related to the analysis of the route. The network related
applications that are used by the Ordnance Survey are OS OpenRoads and OS MasterMap
Highways Network.
Identification of the Theme
Theme 1: Innovation in the company
Innovation is the continuous update in a system to bring success in the company. The
betterment of product and services in a business oriented company is called as innovation. The
concept of innovation is always associated with improvement and change (Dennis, Armitage and
James 2016). The steps towards innovation are improvements in the existing structures of the
technologies, enhancement of efficiencies, improved marketing strategies, incorporating new
designs of products, exercising better strategies of services and reaching to new customers.
One such task that have been taken-up by Ordnance Survey is to connect the connection
with the autonomous vehicles. Along with this reaching to the international customers is also a
big step towards bringing innovation into the company. As per the history of the company,
innovation is always welcomed by the employees and all the heads. In the aspect of innovation,
the introduction of new technologies will help in making difference in the betterment of the
sensors that check or monitors the quality of air and proper determination of location for several
companies, sectors of government and even for individual availing the services of the company
(Holland et al. 2016).