Maptek

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The Maptek Group was founded in 1981 in Sydney, Australia. It employs more than 200 staff worldwide, including highly skilled computing, geological, mining, electronics, systems and marketing professionals.

"The Maptek Group is a consortium of companies providing the Vulcan software suite as well as other products to the global resources industry. The Maptek Group has been at the forefront of innovative mining technology for 27 years. Maptek is committed to providing a total mine solution, offering products and services based on our proven strengths.

The Maptek Group has offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Newcastle, Perth and Sydney (Australia); Denver (USA); Viña del Mar (Chile); Belo Horizonte (Brazil); Cancún (Mexico); Edinburgh (UK); Lima (Peru); and Johannesburg (RSA).

Maptek markets the Vulcan software product which provides advanced 3D spatial information, modelling, visualisation and analysis in fields ranging from mining to defence, environmental management and urban planning. More than 3500 licences of Vulcan are installed around the world in the mining industry alone. Linking Vulcan's capability to model large volume spatial data to inputs from laser imaging devices led to the development of I-Site 3D Laser Imaging hardware and software products. Laser scanning can be used in the mining, engineering, surveying, defence and entertainment industries to create 3D models for a wide variety of spatial and volumetric analysis tasks."


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[edit] Objectivity Case History

[edit] Important

This information is an archive, so any use of the present sense in the text should be taken in the historical context, generally determinable from the Status section below.


[edit] Customer Information

[edit] Status

  • First Contact: June 8th 2007
  • Lead came from: Internet
  • Evaluation Start Date: June 2007
  • Evaluation Finish Date: Jan 2008
  • First Purchase Date: May 2008
  • Deployment Date: July 2009
  • Current Status: In development - Darren to start training on Aug 4 2008
  • Can we talk about this customer and the product/project? Yes.
  • Referenceable?: Yes. ask the sales representative.

[edit] Environment

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[edit] The Project/Product

[edit] Project Background

Objectivity/DB was selected by Maptek in early 2008 as a key part of their platform for their next generation of products, including Maptek Vulcan, I-Site, and MineSuite.

[edit] Project/Product Description

The first deployment of Objectivity/DB will occur in a new version of Maptek’s I-Site software, a tool that allows users in the mining, engineering and forensics industries to collect, model and manipulate millions of scanned data points captured from high performance laser scanners. The Maptek I-Site product family is used to capture detailed 3D laser images, high-resolution photos and survey data. Objectivity/DB will satisfy two critical requirements of Maptek’s next generation solutions: the ability to scale over time without loss of performance and the ability to process massive amounts of data in real-time. “Utilizing Objectivity/DB will significantly reduce development time for our next generation of products, enabling us to innovate faster and deliver leading-edge solutions to our customers,” said Barry Henderson, CEO of Maptek.

Type of Application:

  • 3D Imagery Scanning and Evaluation Software for the Mining Industry and Forensics Community
  • Enterprise Data Cloud Technology
  • Multi-User Shared Data Application
  • Storing, retrieving and editing large spatial datasets 'live' across many machines on the network simultaneously
  • Objectivity/DB technology used for atomicity, network transport and distributed storage

[edit] Buying Criteria

[edit] Business Priorities

  • First contact made July 19th 2007 With James Howlum
  • Requirements Gathered Sept. 10th 2007 (Daz)
  • 2 60-Day Trial License Extensions Granted
  • First Quote Sent on Jan. 7th 2008
  • Started Working Directly With CEO Feb. 3rd 2008
  • Closed April 10th 2008
  • $200,000 VAR Agreement (Just the start)
  • Total Sales Cycle – 9 Months - Very minimal politics

[edit] Technical Priorities

The following were priorities during the decision process.

  • Scalability.
  • Performance. The data acquisition has to happen in near real-time. The data is complex to process.

Technical Challenges

  • Application is distributed and data intensive, the objects are very large and typically accessed via traversal of relationships rather than query.
  • They have tried RDBMS but they are not well suited to the problem
  • Home grown solution was considered but the transactional properties of a real database are required as multiple processes are working with the data.
  • Considered Versant – but never trialed them
  • No bake-off – but they did their homework

[edit] Competitors/Alternatives

  • RDBMSs????

[edit] Why They Chose Objectivity

Our ability to scale without loss of performance

[edit] Partners

  • None


[edit] Collateral

  1. Press Releases: June 4, 2008
  2. Flyers: None
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  5. Other:

[edit] Contact Information

  • Objectivity Rep:
  • Customer Contact:
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  • URL: Maptek


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[edit] Categories

Mining
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