Moving Into the Cloud
Over the past year I’ve found myself working more and more with cloud based SaaS products. We presented at Where 2.0 how we were using SaaS cloud services to help deliver data to the community in New Orleans. I then presented a keynote at the Safe FME UC about removing barriers to data sharing and how you can use cloud content management services to help share data within your organization or with the world. Clearly my mind was on pay as you go geospatial content management.
Well lucky enough for me a great opportunity presented itself and Thursday was my last day at RSP Architects. I’m really going to miss working with some very innovative people and the friendships I made there will definitely last me a lifetime. Starting next week I will be working at WeoGeo helping integrate their Library content management system in with existing workflows. Starting all this off will be the ESRI User Conference and we’ll have a booth (booth 217) where we’ll be demonstrating how the WeoGeo Library can help people manage their spatial content with ESRI ArcGIS. If you are at the ESRI UC next week, please stop by and say hello to myself, Paul or Dan.
I still plan to keep this blog exactly the way it is, blogging about GIS and whatever geospatial catches my eye. Planet Geospatial will continue to stay the way it is (and hopefully I’ll have a little time to improve it). I’ll be blogging the ESRI UC Plenary as usual so if you aren’t there, check back on Monday for all the latest news.
I’m really excited to be joining WeoGeo and the excellent team that has built the cloud based services and the great RESTful APIs that I’ve been able to use on projects. You can reach me at my new email address jfee@weogeo.com.
James:
Great news. Some conversations I’ve had recently lead me to believe that the economic downturn has made folks think about the SaaS model a little harder.
But, um, are you Paul’s booth babe at the UC?
BT
Congratulations James – When I saw your “Big Change” tweet a few weeks back, I suspected either WeoGeo or Safe would be your new home. Now all you need is to grab @bradjive and you’ve got the “cloud” dream team! ;-P
Hope to see you and your new posse at GeoWeb!
Cheers,
Dave
Congrats! Good to know – have a marvelous start (and rock it!)
Thanks Stefan!
Wow! What a great move… Content management is a bitch and if you can get a handle on it, you’ll do very well. Sharing is only part of the problem and a place that ESRI and Google are working on. But management of that content is key to being able to figure out what you want to share.
Wow James, great news. I’m very interested to hear how things are going.
Congrats, and good luck!
I have to ask about your comment re having time to improve Planet Geospatial — do you expect to be less busy at WeoGeo than at RSP?
@atanas
nothing more than spending more time working and less time commuting.
Congrats and all the best with the new venture or adventure.
Congrats James. Less time commuting is a great thing! I’m sure the kid is going to be pretty happy to have Dad around more often!
Congratulations on your new job, are you leaving AZ?
Nope staying put. Not that you could actually sell a house in Phoenix anyway.
Wow, great opportunity. WeoGeo rocks! Good luck
Congrats James,
It is good to hear that you are moving into cloud
Congratulations James! Sounds like an exciting new adventure. I will be sure to stop by your booth to get the elevator pitch.
Thanks Stu! See you in a couple days.
Congrats!
As we say here: Exitos!