Research & Development at IONIC

Back in 1999, IONIC Software was one of the first companies to investigate and develop in the field of geospatial interoperability. The company grew with a strong R&D background and the whole team is committed to stay at the leading edge of the geospatial technology sphere.

In addition to a combination of highly skilled profiles, our engineers have been involved in geographic information standardization working groups for many years now and collaborate weekly to OGC and ISO technical committees.

The RedSpider product line, developed by our R&D team, complies with and integrates the most recent international standards, related to geographic information and distributed enterprise technologies. They are natively designed to implement and comply with most OGC and ISO standard interfaces. This makes the generated solutions highly flexible with the capability to creatively manage and manipulate geospatial data through standard interfaces with powerful semantical definitions.

IONIC’s leadership in OGC/ISO standards also enables the solution to easily bring numerous data sources into applications or to dynamically add additional applications without system re-engineering.
To learn more about IONIC involvement within OGC/ISO institutions,
  • click here to view the list of standards and testbeds where IONIC has been involved.

IONIC “benchmarking” for the most relevant Geographic Standard Groups

Alongside OGC /ISO activity, there are numerous of other standard groups that are actively looking to contribute to interoperability in all domains. While IONIC is committed to maintain best of breed technology components, tools and libraries as well as open solutions, our R&D department is regularly making in depth investigations on new protocols and technologies that have been issued by other standard groups such as OASIS, W3C, DGIWG or CEN. As long as these other technologies are enhancing interoperability and reflecting a concrete market demand, our engineers will analyse them and, if suitable, integrate them in our suite of RedSpider components.

Further details; check directly on corresponding web sites:

OASIS: http://www.oasis-open.org
W3C: http://www.w3.org
DGIWG: http://www.dgiwg.org
CEN(TC 287): http://www.centc287.org


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