Siemens Enterprise Communications to deliver geographical information system to NATO

BOCA RATON, Fla., 20 June 2007.Siemens Communications Inc.'s Siemens Enterprise Communications Belgium will provide NATO with a new geographical information system (GIS).

The GIS solution will ensure that NATO personnel will have the best available geospatial information at all times, and be able to fuse geospatial content with other forms of information (logistics, etc.). A services-oriented architecture (SOA) will provide the technological capabilities for data fusion to create a common operating picture.

Siemens will be responsible for the project management and for the integration of the different components among which the world-leading GIS software provided by ESRI (USA), Oracle's database technology and hardware (servers, workstations, back-up and storage systems, LAN-switches, scanners, printers, plotters, etc.).

This project clearly shows Siemens Enterprise Communications' ambitions in the fields of integration and ICT services.